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<\/a>It\u2019s hard to believe how well the daytime fishing is holding up so far this August.\u00a0 I took Jack on a float this past week for his first ever trout fishing trip.\u00a0 We dropped the Au Sable boat into the Manistee at about noon\u2014with little expectations other than having a fun float in the heat of a Summer Day.\u00a0 Fishing for trout during the heat of an August day is, historically, just a nice way to get sunburn and have good conversation with friends on a comfortable ride down the river.<\/p>\n
But that just hasn\u2019t been the case for the last few years.\u00a0 Cool Summers have made fine trout fishing conditions.\u00a0 In fact, usually the best fishing during the hot months is limited to the very early mornings and the black of night.\u00a0 This year night fishing has been slower than we\u2019d normally expect and the morning trico rise has been even tougher than it is generally.\u00a0 The afternoons, on the other hand, have been solid.\u00a0 Now we\u2019re not catching whoppers but we are catching good numbers of trout and the occasional teen-sized fish.<\/p>\n Jack and I turned just one bend before he hooked up, with my help, on a brook trout.\u00a0 And then, he caught his next fish all on his own.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure which of us was more proud.\u00a0 The fish rose steadily all afternoon to flying ants and some of the trout I saw were in the next age classes.\u00a0 He did great for a four year old, but I have to admit that I really would have liked to have been casting.\u00a0 So much so that at the end of the float when he asked to try to run the boat, I let him give it a shot.\u00a0 Can\u2019t get those boat drivers started too early.\u00a0 He paddled and poled and I kept the boat moving properly and secretly behind his focus.<\/p>\n By the end of the trip, he had caught a fair number of trout all on his own and we had left at least two nice fish untouched and un-harassed free to go about their business.\u00a0 The bigger fish need at least a thirty or forty foot cast to be fooled and my boy just isn\u2019t there\u2014not yet.\u00a0 A good fisherman can really capitalize right now.\u00a0 One of the guides took a day off last week and pulled seven teen-sized, daytime brown trout to the front of boat.\u00a0 That\u2019s exceptional on our Michigan Rivers in the August daylight.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a good time to be a trout angler in Michigan.\u00a0 These just might be the \u201cGood Old Days\u201d.<\/p>\n Try to find some time to enjoy it.<\/p>\n Keep your plans open for a stop by the Old Au Sable Fly Shop over Labor Day weekend.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find deep discounts on all sorts of brands during our weekend long clearance sale.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have deep discounts on brands like Sage and Simms.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to get the shop in shape for Fall and the deals will be fantastic.<\/p>\n Hope you can all make one more trip into the North and we\u2019ll see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 15, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s hard to believe how well the daytime fishing is holding up so far this August.\u00a0 I took Jack on a float this past week for his first ever trout fishing trip.\u00a0 We dropped the Au Sable boat into the Manistee at about noon\u2014with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,148,155,84,7,160,154,166,5,68,163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>