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<\/a><\/p>\nJune 13, 2017<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
Big bug fever has caught fire here in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 And for god reason\u2014big mayflies mean big trout.\u00a0 The Brown Drake hatch has been great and the Iconychia\u2019s and Gray Drakes are showing up in numbers and doing good work at fooling the seldom foolish wise, old Brown Trout of the Au Sable River System.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s getting even more exciting.\u00a0 The Hexagenia or Hex flies are blowing up on area lakes and have started to hatch on our local trout streams.\u00a0\u00a0 The hatch is a fly fishing event of epic proportions.\u00a0 It is unparalleled in the legend and lore of Midwest Trout Fishing.\u00a0 The hatch has inspired untold numbers of stories of trout fishing glory and has cost particularly afflicted anglers jobs and relationships.\u00a0 The mayflies are huge\u2014they\u2019re like minnows with wings that hit the water in mass and bring up even the oldest and wisest trout in the River.<\/p>\n
They are the reason I started fly fishing.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t pick up a fly rod because my Dad learned it from his Dad and it was trickled down like some rite of passage.\u00a0 And I didn\u2019t start fly fishing because it looked so lovely and serene.\u00a0 I started fly fishing because we, as kids, were lucky enough to spend our idyllic Michigan summers on a lake.\u00a0 And for two weeks every year, at the end of June, the fishing fell to pieces.\u00a0 You couldn\u2019t catch a fish on our lake.\u00a0 We knew why\u00a0 . . .\u00a0 the big mayflies had swarmed through the nights covering the sodium lights and parking lots and campers.\u00a0 It was clear to everyone that the fish gorged themselves on the huge bugs and were simply too full to eat even the wiggliest night crawler.\u00a0 So fishing simply stopped and we sat on the bench waiting for things to get better.<\/p>\n
Then one day I saw a fur and feather lure in some dusty bin of some old tackle shop that looked exactly like those fishflies.\u00a0 The light went on\u2014fishing wasn\u2019t terrible, fishing was great but we were just all using the wrong bait.\u00a0 It changed my life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been chasing bugs ever since.\u00a0 Find the bugs and the fishing takes care of itself.\u00a0 Most of the mistakes in my life\u2014especially the unimportant ones like success and money have lost every argument the prospects of fish rising.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all just fishing but sometimes you can beat fish at their own game and a fly rod is the perfect tool<\/p>\n
This will be a fun couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t forget to swing by the Shop on Saturday June 17th<\/sup> from 2-4 p.m. to watch legendary innovators and production fly tyers Tim Neal and Jerry Regan spin flies and tales in our learning center.\u00a0 This is an event not to be missed by anyone interested in fly tying or the history of the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.<\/p>\n See you all soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 13, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Big bug fever has caught fire here in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 And for god reason\u2014big mayflies mean big trout.\u00a0 The Brown Drake hatch has been great and the Iconychia\u2019s and Gray Drakes are showing up in numbers and doing good work at fooling the … 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":[159,155,84,160,154,161,166,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}