August 11, 2017<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
Trout fishing on the streams of Northern Michigan is holding up very well so far this Summer.\u00a0 Usually, the stream conditions deteriorate as the Summer rolls along.\u00a0 The water gets low and clear and even, sometimes just a bit too warm for good fishing throughout the day.<\/p>\n
That just hasn\u2019t really happened this year.\u00a0 Trout like it cold, dark, and wet and this year we\u2019ve had plenty of that weather.\u00a0 The cool nights and generally rainy conditions over the last few weeks have the cold springs pumping and the water temperatures primed for good trout activity.<\/p>\n
Fishing starts in the early morning light with attractor patterns and the hopes of a thick, strong trout and then turns into a hatch-match affair to little tricos and blue-winged olives.\u00a0 Those hatches have plenty of first and second year trout feeding selectively to often prolific emergences of the small mayflies.\u00a0 That fishing can last for twenty minutes or for three hours.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fun game to play and polishes up the morning angler just in time for the terrestrial rise that starts before lunch and lasts, on the best days, well into the afternoon.\u00a0 I like to work bigger flies wrapped on size ten and twelve hooks for that event.<\/p>\n
In the absence of the hatch and steadily rising fish, we are simply prospecting for trout.\u00a0 We\u2019re using flies that just may garner the attention of trout that can put a real bend in the rod.\u00a0 We usually think about this kind of fly as an attractor pattern\u2014a fly that may just have a trigger like color or flash or profile that will tempt a trout into a mistake in the angler\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n
Color and flash certainly have their place in the list of triggers, but size also acts as a strong temptation.\u00a0 And, of course, putting the offering in the right place makes the most difference.\u00a0 Running a fly tightly to cover like logjams and leafy, shadowed overhangs is usually rewarded.\u00a0 But too often, anglers forget give their lure some movement.\u00a0 When a grasshopper falls to the river it kicks and struggles.\u00a0 If you can do that, you\u2019re fishing your fly as a living insect and you\u2019re doing it better than everyone else.<\/p>\n
Have fun out there,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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