{"id":1322,"date":"2017-03-25T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2017-03-25T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T16:09:54","slug":"au-sable-river-fishing-report-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/au-sable-river-fishing-report-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Au Sable River Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Donnie<\/a><\/p>\n

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March 25, 2017<\/p>\n

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

The Spring egg is starting to hatch.\u00a0 There are of small, mid-forty degree cracks in the ten day weather report that show promise for outdoor enthusiasts.\u00a0\u00a0 Plenty of those days are predicted on sunny days and the March sun is warmer and longer than its winter step-brothers.\u00a0 I had my home thermometer poking the mid-twenties last week and the sun that day did its work on my cabin roof and all of the thin snow that fell the day before dripped off and slid to the ground.\u00a0 The March sun is strong.\u00a0 Even my Crocus\u2019s are poking a couple of inches through the ground now\u2014a beautiful bellwether of things to come.\u00a0 Spring is coming and every person in Michigan is just as eager as I am.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some fishing out there on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.\u00a0 The boys have been a bit hungry for brown trout tugs and have been hitting the river every chance the weather allows.\u00a0 Big streamers have been their flies of choice.\u00a0 These guys aren\u2019t shooting for even medium sized trout\u2014they\u2019re gunning for big game.\u00a0\u00a0 Spring streamer fishing on the Au Sable and Manistee is a time to try to boat a behemoth.\u00a0 It is one of the few times of year that true trophy trout are fooled in these fabled waters.\u00a0 And Springtime streamer fishing, not only rivals Fall streamer fishing, but is arguably the better venue.<\/p>\n

One of our fine guides, Donny Richards, has been finding his bite on both rivers and on most angling days.\u00a0 I say \u201cone of our fine guides\u201d because all of our guides at the Old Au Sable are well-seasoned as anglers and top notch as human beings.\u00a0 Anyway, he\u2019s been boating a fish or two over the twenty inch mark on each of his trips.\u00a0 Now, appreciate a couple of things, a fish like that is a genuine trophy and in the winter we tend to either find one or two of those on a float or we find none.\u00a0 Here, in Northern Michigan, this streamer game is not a numbers count affair.\u00a0 It is, however, a numbers game in length, width, and weight.<\/p>\n

Man, I\u2019m getting myself excited.\u00a0 Get outside.\u00a0 I will.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a bunch of neat stuff happening at the shop this year. \u00a0Of course, the restaurant project is happening and is open for dinner service starting at 4 p.m. each day. \u00a0The brisket sandwich and the gumbo are my favorites.<\/p>\n

No projects happen up North without some hiccups and bumps in the road and for us that means a messy, quagmire of a \u00a0parking lot. That nothing new for us–we’ve been tripping around construction for the last couple of years. \u00a0The good news is that we truly are getting close to finally close to the finish line. \u00a0We’ll get the parking lot paved as soon as Spring allows and the water table drops a bit. \u00a0And then we’ll get to the important business of dry fly fishing.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

See you soon,<\/p>\n

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

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