{"id":1327,"date":"2017-03-31T18:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:11:50","slug":"old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SEAN<\/a>\u00a0Guide Sean with a nice brown.<\/p>\n

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March 31, 2017<\/p>\n

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

The terrible thing about working in a fly shop is that when the weather gets nice, you get busy.\u00a0 We had a fine, sunny day in the fifties this week and, of course, I was locked in the shop.\u00a0 When the clock ticked five, I broke through the door like a kid waiting for recess.\u00a0 The temperature was already dropping and the hour was too late to pull on waders and take a lap in a likely streamer fishing loop, so I contented myself to taking a drive in the lingering sunshine to inventory our area streams.\u00a0 It\u2019s an important job.\u00a0 After all, you\u2019ve got to know what\u2019s going on if you write fishing reports.\u00a0 And being April, I\u2019m thinking I just may be able to write off the miles.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I turned onto the Mason Tract Pathway to survey the South Branch and the road was thick with little midges hovering windshield high.\u00a0 Now midges are only important to trout here in the early season as nymphs, but they are important to me as a harbinger of things to come.\u00a0 They are water born bugs that are hatching.\u00a0 They are the beginning of the progression.<\/p>\n

The water, system wide, is high but seasonal and carefully wadable and with the clarity that exists now puts streams right on pace for good April fishing.\u00a0 If big rains come wading anglers may be sidelined, but the ground has broken loose and an extended warm spell will certainly get us polishing our dry fly rods.<\/p>\n

After my scouting mission I came home and went directly to the stone-rimmed fire ring in my backyard and had a campfire.\u00a0 A fire pit is one of the staples of any good home Up North.\u00a0 It\u2019s like a water feature in fancy downstate homes or a bathtub Mary in the older neighborhoods of my good old hometown.\u00a0 As the light fell, Gloria and I were slapped with the sounds of the birds singing.\u00a0 The birds are back.\u00a0 They break winter\u2019s silence like nothing else\u2014sounded like Africa out there.<\/p>\n

Fishing season is now.\u00a0 New fishing licenses are required as of April first.\u00a0 Prices haven\u2019t changed but with a mild winter and a slow run-off the value will be added in trout numbers.<\/p>\n

Rumor has it that trout are starting to sporadically rise on our sister rivers.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to stretch the floating line this week whether the fish are rising or not.<\/p>\n

Get your stuff around\u2014fishing season is here.<\/p>\n

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

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