{"id":1366,"date":"2017-05-26T18:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2017-05-26T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T18:43:39","slug":"the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/26\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1367\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sean-pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Sean-pic-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"14 Year Old with Guide Sean\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 Year Old with Guide Sean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>May 26, 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re set up for some fantastic fishing here on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.\u00a0 Frankly, every trout stream in Michigan should show its medal this week.\u00a0 Water conditions are perfect.\u00a0 Water levels are at prime, fishable depths and water temperatures are optimal for trout feeding and for aquatic insect activity.<\/p>\n<p>We now have a thick diversity of hatches.\u00a0 Major emergences of sulfurs, caddis, black quills, and March Browns are enhanced further by minor appearances little olive stones, golden drakes, and Mattress Thrasher stoneflies.\u00a0 Better still, the hatches will be bookended by solid streamer fishing in the mornings and complex spinner falls on the warmer evenings.\u00a0 And, of course, this first week of June will have many anglers keeping an open and keen eye popped for the glory of the Michigan Brown Drake hatch.<\/p>\n<p>The Brown Drakes mark the beginning of the big bug trophy fishing in the June darkness.\u00a0 It would be foolish for an angler to step into the stream without a handful of drake patterns in their box.\u00a0 On the warm, cloudy days drakes could appear on any given afternoon.\u00a0 But usually the first of the drakes appear mysteriously and unexpectedly while anglers have leaders stretched out to long lengths of 6x tippet dotted at the end with a tiny, little yellow sulfur.\u00a0 And then, just as fishermen are diligently working smaller trout dappling to the minute pale flies, a cloud of brown drakes streams upriver at treetop levels before falling to the water and stirring the whole next class of fish. \u00a0When the sulfur rise in the failing light starts showing large trout rising, be skeptical, pull your gear in and look to the skies\u2014drakes may just be descending to the water.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of fine fishing happening on our bigger rivers right now and it\u2019s just going to get better.\u00a0 June is an exciting time for Northern Michigan trout fishermen.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also some ridiculously good, sneaky stuff happening in the Michigan fishing world.\u00a0 I\u2019d nudge folks to seek some of our smaller, less publicized streams.\u00a0 Those creeks are lonely and can be awefully fishy.\u00a0 I\u2019d also poke everyone to take to the lakes soon and go bluegill fishing\u2014it\u2019s red hot right now.<\/p>\n<p>Drive safely and have fun,<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; May 26, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We\u2019re set up for some fantastic fishing here on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.\u00a0 Frankly, every trout stream in Michigan should show its medal this week.\u00a0 Water conditions are perfect.\u00a0 Water levels are at prime, fishable depths and water temperatures are &#8230; <a title=\"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/26\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-4\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Old Au Sable Fly Shop 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":[156,148,159,155,84,7,166,5,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}