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<\/a>the woods and waters of Northern Michigan.<\/p>\nI live here because of maybe six glorious months of the year, and I make do with the rest.\u00a0 There\u2019s the Spring and early Summer hatch fishing for trout and then there\u2019s the mild weeks of Summer.\u00a0 And then, the king of all seasons, Fall makes its spectacular appearance.\u00a0 But when you filter it all through a sieve, there\u2019s maybe seven weeks that make all of the difference.\u00a0 The next few are some of the best.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s still plenty of color out there for the leaf peepers and anyone that wants to get one last peek at Fall\u2019s fiery crescendo.\u00a0 And bird hunters will have to make apologies to their families and bosses because this is what those sportsmen dream about for eleven months of the year.\u00a0\u00a0 Woodcock are dropping down from the North into young aspen covers that are nearly leaf barren and the grouse are dispersing and offering long, shooting looks to folks with steady sporting dogs.<\/p>\n
I urge grouse hunters to be careful in their approach to upland covers.\u00a0 Too many hunters slowly turn off two tracks into grousy, Bow hunters should also be bouncing in their cubicles.\u00a0 I\u2019ve put lots of miles on my boot leather through some fantastic woodlots, and I just saw my first signs of rut this week.\u00a0 One night I watched two bucks fight for forty-five minutes.\u00a0 It\u2019s getting revved up.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to urge everyone to call in sick or quit and get to the woods.<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n Also, if you\u2019d like to book a cast and blast or an upland bird hunting trip, just give the shop a shout and we\u2019ll get you all squared away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 26, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. And just like that, it is prime time Fall. I took a week off just as colors were changing and a handful of days later the trees hit peak blaze and in a blink the leaves started to drop and the deer have started … 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":[202,151,148,159,152,155,84,7,149,5,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>grassy pullovers and then proceed to slam the truck doors, drop dogs before the shotguns are loaded, and then toot the door locks snapped shut.\u00a0 After that, it\u2019s a bunch of chaos with beepers and bells and controlling dog shouts and whistles.\u00a0 Maybe that works on the pheasant farms, but remember that you\u2019re out there hunting for one of the wiliest game animals in Michigan.\u00a0 Here, you are always hunting when you have a gun in your hand and your feet sink into frosty grass.<\/p>\n<\/a>Oh yeah, and Fall brown trout fishing\u2014it\u2019s here\u2014save it for the rain.<\/p>\n