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The shift into the Summer trout season is here in Crawford County.\u00a0 The June hatches are largely over and are sputtering to a solid end.\u00a0 That said, savvy anglers would be wise to bring their Isonychia and Hex patterns with them as they push into our moving waters.\u00a0 Hatches rarely end like turning off a spigot.\u00a0 It seems like there\u2019s always one more spit of bugs and if you\u2019re there and you\u2019re prepared you may just get one more special evening of trophy trout rising in the moonlight.<\/p>\n
While we lament the end of the big fish rise on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers, the Summer season offers some fine angling opportunities and a much more relaxed experience.\u00a0 Trophy fishing still exists it just doesn\u2019t depend on the hatch chase.\u00a0 Brown trout still have to eat but will now hunt like all predators in nature\u2014 stealthily and aggressively and under the cover of darkness.\u00a0 Gone is a quiet rise in some dark corner and now fish will explode in a killing strike at anything they can fit in their mouth.<\/p>\n
We call it mousing.\u00a0\u00a0 And though our big brown trout do eat mice that dare to swim the river in the dark, the term \u201cmousing\u201d really refers to a method of fly fishing that requires anglers to sneak through slow currents pitching patterns that can resemble anything from mice to frogs to giant moths.\u00a0 Fly fishing is often thought of as a dainty sport with fishermen fishing dainty flies to nice little trout . . . that\u2019s just not true when we talk about big browns.\u00a0 Big browns are apex predators\u2014masters of their domain and they rule like tyrants.\u00a0 They kill whatever they can fit in their mouths.\u00a0 One angler I know killed a good brown last year with a thick lump in its stomach.\u00a0 Turned out that trout had baby otter in its belly.\u00a0 It\u2019s like Africa out there in the still of the night.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n But the quiet nice stuff is here now too.\u00a0 And it is fun.\u00a0 The Trico and olive hatches have started.\u00a0 The fishing is in quiet, misty, lonely mornings.\u00a0 It\u2019s a commune with nature and peacefulness starts your day.\u00a0 Lots of ways to enjoy our waters right now.<\/p>\n Enjoy,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 12, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The shift into the Summer trout season is here in Crawford County.\u00a0 The June hatches are largely over and are sputtering to a solid end.\u00a0 That said, savvy anglers would be wise to bring their Isonychia and Hex patterns with them as … 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":[148,159,166,153,150,157,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383"}],"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=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n