{"id":1308,"date":"2017-02-09T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2017-02-09T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T16:19:35","slug":"au-sable-river-fishing-and-outdoor-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/09\/au-sable-river-fishing-and-outdoor-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Sable River Fishing and Outdoor Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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February 2, \u00a0<\/sup>2017 AuSable River Outdoor Report<\/p>\n

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n

Sorry folks for some reason (learning the software) this didn\u2019t post timely but is still very much relevant. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I like this waking up every morning to thin coating of fresh white.\u00a0 There\u2019s no denying that we\u2019re in the middle of winter now\u2014we\u2019re right where we should be.\u00a0 The clean snow keeps it feeling right\u2014keeps it honest.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s consistency in that.\u00a0 And what it means for all of us in Northern Michigan is that we know what our jobs are; we know just what our schedules look like.\u00a0 It means we have important stuff to do.<\/p>\n

The winter cup runs over with sweet, icy treats when winter smooths out like this.\u00a0 Wax your skis, polish your sleds, pull tight the snowshoe straps, and get to the frozen lakes because you simply won\u2019t have any better opportunities to do so.\u00a0 I hope to pursue it all, and I\u2019ll get some of it all in before winter ends.<\/p>\n

But this week I have a pressing task at hand.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had this long-term, evolving idea that I want to champion.\u00a0 There\u2019s exists notions that fly fishing is mystical, elevated pursuit and that fly fishermen are snobbish troutophiles.\u00a0 These assumptions, while too often true, cast an unfortunate shadow over a simple outdoor pursuit and leave too many anglers afield without a deadly tool.\u00a0 It\u2019s like golfing without a putter.<\/p>\n

Fly fishing is just fishing.\u00a0 And when fish are rising to bugs on the water\u2019s surface, be they brook trout or bluegill, there is no better tool than a fly rod.<\/p>\n

So this week I\u2019m working at tackling the problem from the fly tying side of the sport.\u00a0 I\u2019m taking tying back to the real nuts and bolts of what the thing is.\u00a0 Fishermen, perhaps especially fly fishermen, are prone to hyperbole and that predisposition for exaggeration extends right into the fly tying world.\u00a0 Somewhere in its lineage the act of crafting readily available materials such as fur and feathers around a hook to produce an inexpensive and effective fishing lure was elevated, by one of its admirers, to \u201cthe art of fly tying\u201d.<\/p>\n

Art is a form of work that is the expression of emotions.\u00a0 Craft is a form of work that creates a functioning product.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be taking fly tying back to a craft at the Old Au Sable open tying session on Saturday February 11th<\/sup> starting at noon.\u00a0 Swing by the shop and join in the fun.<\/p>\n

Hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n

Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  February 2, \u00a02017 AuSable River Outdoor Report The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Sorry folks for some reason (learning the software) this didn\u2019t post timely but is still very much relevant. \u00a0 I like this waking up every morning to thin coating of fresh white.\u00a0 There\u2019s no denying that we\u2019re in the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,84,154,166,5,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}