{"id":1372,"date":"2017-06-08T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:52:39","slug":"the-old-au-sable-brown-drake-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/the-old-au-sable-brown-drake-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Au Sable Brown Drake Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rainbow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rainbow-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"rainbow\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p>The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a cool spring, but now as we wade deeper into June, we\u2019re getting summer warmth and we\u2019re getting some heat on those riverside muck banks.\u00a0 The Brown Drakes nymphs are well incubated and the hatch will continue to roll and should explode on all reaches of the Au Sable and Manistee River systems in the coming days.\u00a0 Many anglers would argue that the Brown Drakes are the best fly emergence for fine trout angling.\u00a0 I agree.\u00a0 In my opinion, Brown Drake fishing trumps the fabled Hex hatch.<\/p>\n<p>Even when I lived in Montana, I still came back and fished the Au Sable in May and stayed until I had a healthy dose of Drake fishing.\u00a0 I left for the West those years before the Hex hatch even started; sated with my fill of thick, rising brown trout that fell for feather twisted Brown Drake patterns.\u00a0 The fishing, at its best, is better dry fly angling than any in our country.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons are simple.\u00a0 Brown Drakes bring essentially the same caliber of brown trout to the surface as do Hex.\u00a0 Further, while Hex happen in a fair portion of our impressive streams, Brown Drakes happen in all reaches of our rivers.\u00a0 Whereas much of our best Hex fishing is best served from a boat, the Drakes emerge even from our smallest streams.\u00a0 Wading anglers have a greater opportunity to find glory and a better chance of finding productive water.\u00a0 And that means a longer window of opportunity.\u00a0 Simply put, you have a better chance of timing your trip than you do with Hex.\u00a0 Plus when you\u2019ve fished Brown Drakes for an evening, you\u2019ll likely be at the truck by eleven o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Whereas with the Hex you just begin fishing about that time.\u00a0 A fact that resonates with me more as I push into my forties.<\/p>\n<p>So get to the rivers now.\u00a0\u00a0 The odds are in your favor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1375\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sean-Drake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sean-Drake-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nice Trout with Guide Sean\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice Trout with Guide Sean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That said, things are shaping up for an early Hex year.\u00a0 And conditions are pointing toward a heavy year of the most magnificent of mayflies.\u00a0 Even with their relative disadvantages the Hex are enormous and remain the King of all mayflies.\u00a0 \u00a0I hear myself waffling.\u00a0 I\u2019m certainly glad I don\u2019t have to choose one over the other.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a big weekend\u2014we\u2019ll see you soon,<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; June 8, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s been a cool spring, but now as we wade deeper into June, we\u2019re getting summer warmth and we\u2019re getting some heat on those riverside muck banks.\u00a0 The Brown Drakes nymphs are well incubated and the hatch will continue to roll and should &#8230; <a title=\"The Old Au Sable Brown Drake Report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/08\/the-old-au-sable-brown-drake-report\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Old Au Sable Brown Drake 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":[148,159,155,84,166,5],"tags":[169,178,45,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372"}],"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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}