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<\/a><\/p>\nThat said, November is no slouch of a month.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that the outdoor opportunities start to get more limited.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s a good thing for a scatter-brained outdoorsman like me.\u00a0 Whereas October is a beehive of hunting and fishing pursuits, November forces folks to focus.<\/p>\n
In the Crawford County streams brook trout have spawned and are pretty much absent from the bite\u2014they are no longer a target Get out there soon.\u00a0 Do all the great stuff that\u2019s left and pick up the scraps of all of Fall\u2019s last chances.\u00a0 November is here and it\u2019s not exactly what I consider Fall and it certainly isn\u2019t winter.\u00a0 November is its own animal and in Northern Michigan it is, above all things, about deer season.\u00a0 We live in a place where the schools close for opening day, where people take vacations, or own a piece of property solely to hunt on November fifteenth.\u00a0 It is our heritage.\u00a0 We don\u2019t even call it by any other name than Opening Day. \u00a0It\u2019s like saying \u201cLabron\u201d or \u201cMiggy\u201d.\u00a0 The day just doesn\u2019t need more names.\u00a0 It\u2019s that big.<\/p>\n So I\u2019ll spend the next ten days sitting in my bow stand, and walking into the grouse covers, and wading knee deep in the South Branch hoping for one more heavy brown trout.<\/p>\n I hope you can find some time and we see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 4, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. Hate to see October slip by.\u00a0 I wish there were at least two of them.\u00a0 I\u2019d say six, but there\u2019s no sense in getting greedy, I guess. That said, November is no slouch of a month.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that the outdoor opportunities start to … 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":[202,151,148,152,155,84,7,149,5,153,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"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=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>species.\u00a0 And in the upland bird hunting woods, woodcock seem to be disappearing.\u00a0 We keep hoping we\u2019ll get one more push of migratory birds before the season closes on Monday, November 7th, but that event has yet to happen, so grouse are the only real option left to pointing and flushing dog enthusiasts.\u00a0 And in the anadromous fish waters, salmon have done their deal and no longer offer any real game fishing, so Fall-run steelhead and the occasional lake-run brown trout are the limiting options.\u00a0 These are all fantastic pursuits but, again, the options are getting thinner.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>It\u2019s a fun season.\u00a0 I put the final touches on my blind just the other day.\u00a0 My lanes are preened.\u00a0 My windows open quietly.\u00a0 And our deer camp plans are all laid out.\u00a0 I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n