{"id":1331,"date":"2017-04-07T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2017-04-07T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:57:09","slug":"old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

April 7, 2017<\/p>\n

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

We\u2019ve just endured winter\u2019s last stand here in Northern Michigan\u2014I hope.\u00a0 That cranky old man shook his fist at us once again and we took it on the chin a little but his punch is getting weaker.\u00a0 Winter won\u2019t stick.\u00a0 Warm weather will clean things up quickly.\u00a0 So keep your chin up.<\/p>\n

I heard the Spring Peepers last Tuesday night.\u00a0 Those little frogs don\u2019t sing until they believe it\u2019s Spring.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve been doing it for millennia.\u00a0\u00a0 Their life literally depends on getting it right.\u00a0\u00a0 Put your faith in the frogs. Springtime fun is close.\u00a0 Things can happen quickly even in April\u2014the cruelest month of the year.<\/p>\n

Fishing is holding up on our area streams.\u00a0 The Au Sable Mainstream and South Branch are running high.\u00a0 But the North Branch is looking good just like that sweet stream always does and the Manistee is, perhaps, an angler\u2019s best choice.\u00a0 The fact that there\u2019s nearly always a place to fish in our area is maybe the best reason to call this place a fisherman\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n

The stretch of the Au Sable River downstream from Burton\u2019s Landing to Wakely Bridge has long been hailed as \u201cThe Holy Waters\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 That reach of river is regulated as \u201cFlies Only and Catch and Release\u201d.\u00a0 Anglers worldwide too often believe the moniker became the name because of the regulations.\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0 The name \u201cHoly Waters\u201d came, firstly, from the idea that God created a perfect trout stream and, secondly, from the fact that no matter how high and dirty and unfishable every other stream in Michigan might become, the \u201cHoly Waters\u201d and its stable flows are likely fishable.\u00a0 The waters here are special.\u00a0 Out of nearly twelve thousand miles of trout stream in Michigan we have a fair allotment of the specially regulated waters.\u00a0 We should, rightly, take pride in that fact.\u00a0 Special places deserve special treatment<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also nearly Turkey hunting time.\u00a0 Here that means we get a Spring \u201cCast and Blast\u201d season in Crawford County.\u00a0 The tom turkeys are whiteheaded and gobbling.\u00a0 I see myself on April 17th<\/sup> waking early to call and then hitting the river at heat of day for hendricksons.<\/p>\n

Spring is heating up.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see blue-winged olive during this coming warm up as well as black stoneflies.\u00a0 Water clarity looks good.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though steelhead fishing is in full swing, you might want to start thinking about getting ready for trout.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s shaping up to be a great season.<\/p>\n

Take care and I hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n

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

April 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We\u2019ve just endured winter\u2019s last stand here in Northern Michigan\u2014I hope.\u00a0 That cranky old man shook his fist at us once again and we took it on the chin a little but his punch is getting weaker.\u00a0 Winter won\u2019t stick.\u00a0 Warm weather will clean … 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":[164,155,84,7,160,154,166,5,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331"}],"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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}