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<\/a>The last of our best hatches is in full flight\u2014the White Fly hatch below Mio Dam is a spectacle of nature.\u00a0 The White Flies, or Ephrons, emerge, mate, and spin in epic numbers on the best nights and create a blizzard of bugs that blur the opposite river bank.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the event requires a precise recipe of conditions to produce the fantastic fishing we all hope for and know it can create.<\/p>\n
The rub on the White Fly hatch is that the insects prefer marginal stretches of trout rivers.\u00a0 The little, pale bugs like water that is just a bit too warm for optimal trout feeding.\u00a0 And so, the thickest emergences generally occur when the river is slightly too warm for great angling.\u00a0 So we hope for August and September evenings that are warm enough to allow for enough hatching bugs that get the trout interested but ones that keep the water cool enough for a fine trout feeding situation.\u00a0 It\u2019s a delicate mixture and the conditions usually fall in the marginal tolerances for one of the animals we need to create the perfect casserole of circumstance.\u00a0 That said, this has been a special year and the stars seem to be aligned for the fantastic in the Mio stretch of the Au Sable River.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth hoping for and it\u2019s worth trying for.<\/p>\n
The Upper Rivers are primed for good fishing as well.\u00a0 We continue to have good trico hatches in the mid-morning hours and the flying ants have shown up nearly every afternoon in numbers solid enough to keep trout rising.\u00a0 If you\u2019re fortunate enough to be in a reach of Get to the river before it\u2019s all over and swing by the Old Au Sable for our Labor Day Weekend Summer clearance sale.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find the best deals on big name brands and from everything from rods and waders to clothing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a must do.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll have select Sage and Redington Rods and Reels for up to 30% Take care, have fun weekend and we\u2019ll see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 31, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The last of our best hatches is in full flight\u2014the White Fly hatch below Mio Dam is a spectacle of nature.\u00a0 The White Flies, or Ephrons, emerge, mate, and spin in epic numbers on the best nights and create a blizzard of bugs that … 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":[201,148,164,155,84,166,5,150,68,163,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> water that has winged ants on the water, stay where you, slow down, and take the addresses of the rising trout.\u00a0 The ants don\u2019t actually \u201chatch\u201d in any sort of progression that I know of, but rather a particular ant hill explodes with winged critters that are designed to re-colonize.\u00a0 The ants that emerge with newly formed wings are notoriously poor flyers and end up on the river not far from the nest in which they were born.\u00a0 A sloppy fisherman can wade away from the bounty.<\/p>\n<\/a>OFF as well as select Fishpond Packs and bags for up 30% OFF.\u00a0 And you won\u2019t want to miss out on deals of up to 40% OFF on select SIMMS product.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to clean out lasts year\u2019s stuff and make room for all the great new Fall gear.\u00a0 Buy someone a gift (maybe yourself) and help us make some elbow room.<\/p>\n