{"id":1314,"date":"2017-02-27T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:11:50","slug":"au-sable-river-fishing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/au-sable-river-fishing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Sable River Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bennett-Brook-TROUT-150x1501.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bennett-Brook-TROUT-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Bennett-Brook-TROUT-150x150[1]\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>February 23, 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not quite sure what that Punxsutawney Phil fool was thinking on Groundhog\u2019s Day when he prophesized six more weeks of winter, but it sure doesn\u2019t look like we should ever take our weather predictions from an overgrown rat. As far as I can see in the woods around me and on the extended weather forecast, winter has lost its legs.<\/p>\n<p>Our beautiful, little hidden gem of Northern winter sports, Hanson Hills, has even closed down their tubing and downhill skiing operations for the year. And the fishing guides not only had folks in the front of the boat this past week but one of our favorite clients boated a huge brook trout.<\/p>\n<p>And while I don\u2019t know much most of the time, I know that the ski hill closes in the Spring and I know that there is no stronger harbinger of Spring than the first landed brook trout. We saw that this last week and in grand fashion. That brook trout measured an honest eighteen and a half inches long.\u00a0 That\u2019s an enormous rarity in any of the great, wild brook trout waters on the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago a friend and I both landed a teen-sized brook trout on the same day. It was early March and my friend pulled a seventeen and a half inch brook trout off a log and out of my back pocket while using an enormous olive wooly bugger.\u00a0 I\u2019d been chucking the standard size six stuff around only to be snubbed by that big brook trout.\u00a0 In fact I didn\u2019t have anything in my fly box even close to the size of the dead chicken my partner was chucking around.\u00a0 But after seeing that result, I was immediately into his fly collection.\u00a0 Two things happened that day:\u00a0 I fell in love with giant woolly buggers and with the Au Sable River.\u00a0 I moved to Grayling that April.<\/p>\n<p>There will certainly be a tug of war between winter and Spring. We can count on it.\u00a0 But watch for these Spring warm-ups and get to the open water when you can.\u00a0 The trout fishing looks like it will be good this Spring and I\u2019m already hearing whispers about steelhead sweeping gravel.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun out there!<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. I\u2019m not quite sure what that Punxsutawney Phil fool was thinking on Groundhog\u2019s Day when he prophesized six more weeks of winter, but it sure doesn\u2019t look like we should ever take our weather predictions from an overgrown rat. As far as I can &#8230; <a title=\"Au Sable River Fishing Report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/au-sable-river-fishing-report\/\" aria-label=\"More on Au Sable River Fishing Report\">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":[201,148,84,166,167,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"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=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}