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<\/a>That thick leave cover should start to thin soon, though.\u00a0 The maple trees have kicked off the Fall Colors in our little corner of Northern Michigan with some trees slipping into gold and others even farther into red.\u00a0 Poplars will turn yellow soon and brown ferns will fall with the jagged edged leaves dropping soon after.\u00a0 The shooting will just get better in the grouse woods very soon.<\/p>\n
Even better, woodcock are starting to drop into our covers and should thicken the flush rates just as the cover thins.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some seasonal colder weather spinning our way, so the doodle migration will continue.\u00a0 Our peak upland bird hunting will occur over the coming few weeks.<\/p>\n
While the wet weather has hampered the wing shooting, it has greatly helped the trout fishing.\u00a0 Daytime streamer fishing on those cloudy, rainy days has been just what you\u2019d expect\u2014great.\u00a0 Small streamers are producing brook trout adorned in their finest Fall colors and just slightly larger flies have been relatively effective on browns.\u00a0 Some trophy brown trout have fallen foolish, but the best<\/p>\n of that fishing if still in front us.<\/p>\n So upland bird hunting is about to get better and brown trout fishing is about to get better.\u00a0 Add to that the fact that white-tailed deer bow hunting is coming into its prime\u2014it\u2019s hard not to be excited about time spent in Northern Michigan\u2019s wilds.\u00a0 Try to slice off some for yourself.<\/p>\n I was lucky enough to do just that with my friend Scott the other day.\u00a0 We met early, hopped into the same car, and turned paved roads into gravel and gravel roads into sandy trails.\u00a0 There were thorn apples dripping from even the young trees and Scott\u2019s young Brittany did a pretty fine job of finding birds.\u00a0 We shot a couple, missed more, and talked just a little too much to be focused on the task at hand.\u00a0 Neither of us cared\u2014it was simply good to share time and words with a friend.<\/p>\n Take care and I hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 7, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It\u2019s been a warm, wet Fall so far.\u00a0 That makes for some soaked bird britches, bird dogs, and the never totally waterproof, and too expensive \u201cwaterproof\u201d boots.\u00a0 It has also kept the foliage thick. That thick leave cover should start to thin soon, though.\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,156,148,152,155,84,149,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>