{"id":1345,"date":"2017-05-04T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:11:20","slug":"old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/04\/old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Donnie<\/a>
Donnie with a Hendrickson Fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 4, 2017<\/p>\n

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

Trout season 2017 is well underway.\u00a0 We saw the best trout opening day that we\u2019ve had in years.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather opened up just enough and collided with a sliver of decent water conditions to entertain anglers with a trout rise to blue-winged olives, hendricksons, and black caddis.\u00a0 Folks caught fish between parties and comradery at generationally, long-standing trout camps and told fish stories over steaming pots of soup and campfires.\u00a0 Michigan traditions are among the best in the land.<\/p>\n

This year trout season also lined up with the best beginnings of the morel mushroom hunt.\u00a0 I had one friend pluck couple hundred in a secret spot and another friend that found four hundred over the weekend.\u00a0 \u00a0I took my four year old Jack out in the steady rain in a raincoat that was about two sizes too big for him and we trudged a couple of short mushroom trudges.\u00a0 But like Forest Gump on his first venture into the shrimping grounds, we only found five.\u00a0 Couple of more and we would\u2019ve had \u2018shroom cocktail.\u00a0 The whole thing has forced me to develop a new program at the shop.\u00a0 It goes \u201cshow me your secret mushroom spots and I\u2019ll show you my secret trout spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had big rains again since the weekend and the rivers are struggling to give us good, wadable water.\u00a0 The South is out of question for the foreseeable future, but the North and Manistee are do-able.\u00a0 We\u2019re hoping things straighten out enough for the Holy Water to be wade-able by the weekend.\u00a0 Where there\u2019s a will there\u2019s a way.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard not to try.\u00a0 The bugs will be there.<\/p>\n

I sat on a moss covered bank the other day listening to river mutterings\u2014rhythmic and right.\u00a0 My feet dangled in the cool water.\u00a0 And then a different gurgle spoke of a fine trout rising in the failing light.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t find it by sound, but the boney log across the stream betrayed the rise spot with a wet splash stain.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t happen for me that night, but I did get the address.\u00a0\u00a0 Time on stream is always time well spent.<\/p>\n

It\u2019d be right for anglers to be just as excited for the bluegill bite.\u00a0 They\u2019re in the shallows on a pre-spawn mission.\u00a0 And that water looks just fine.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be heading to a lake or two on the cooler evenings this week. \u00a0<\/em>I almost chased gills last Wednsesday \u00a0(5\/3) but Hendrickson spinners hung thick over the river crossing and you just can\u2019t drive away from that.\u00a0 The spinner fall was early but it was heavy.\u00a0\u00a0 I poked one fish that jumped six times.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think anyone expected that spinner flight.<\/p>\n

Get to the water as soon and as often as possible.\u00a0 If you wait for it to be perfect, you\u2019ll never go and the season will be over.<\/p>\n

Have fun out there,<\/p>\n

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

May 4, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Trout season 2017 is well underway.\u00a0 We saw the best trout opening day that we\u2019ve had in years.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather opened up just enough and collided with a sliver of decent water conditions to entertain anglers with a trout rise to blue-winged olives, hendricksons, … 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":[156,148,164,155,84,166,5,158],"tags":[169,172,173,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}