September 23, 2017<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
So much for Summer being over\u2014we\u2019re up against a September heat wave like I\u2019ve never seen.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather man says we\u2019re going push the mercury toward the ninety degree mark.\u00a0 That\u2019s not only gonna make the grouse hunting tricky but will also make trout fishing strange.<\/p>\n
The heat has the grouse feeling pretty safe during the afternoons.\u00a0 Hunters are at a disadvantage.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a couple of hours in the morning to run dogs before the heat gets the best of them.\u00a0 Even hunting water covers where the pups can take a swim and gets lots drinks, isn\u2019t adequate enough right now to keep the dogs running all day long.<\/p>\n
Fishing has been odd.\u00a0 Good but odd.\u00a0 Unseasonable temperatures mess things up.\u00a0 Twenty-five degrees too warm is just as goofy as twenty-five degrees too cold.\u00a0 While the best fishing in September is usually during the heat of the day, we\u2019ve had good angling in the early mornings.\u00a0 The late afternoon hours are offering up chances at fish rising to flying ants and the after dark mousing has been flat good with our current new moon cycle.\u00a0 The river is fishing pretty much like you\u2019d expect it to in August . . . it\u2019s just that we\u2019re in September.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good idea to be versatile when hunting or fishing.\u00a0 Success is always based on an outdoorsman\u2019s ability to adapt to conditions.<\/p>\n
I just spent a week in Wyoming chasing Sage Grouse with a group of new friends.\u00a0 Sage Grouse are kinda rare and putting a check mark next to hunting them is always something that I\u2019ve always wanted to do.\u00a0 There\u2019s a grouse grand slam that exists in North America and the Sage Grouse is the trickiest feather to put in that cap.\u00a0 The weather in Wyoming was twenty degrees cooler than is should have been and the big rains we experienced were uncharacteristic.\u00a0 The first day we put up a mere two birds.\u00a0 And then we adjusted and we put up seventy birds the next two days and I put a check mark next to Sage Grouse.<\/p>\n
Woodcock season opens September 23rd<\/sup> and the weather will normalize, so make some plans to get to Northern Michigan\u2014there is no finer season in the mitten.<\/p>\n Hope to see you soon\u00a0 . . . it\u2019s gonna be a quick leaf drop this year so don\u2019t linger in October or you\u2019ll miss it,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 23, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report So much for Summer being over\u2014we\u2019re up against a September heat wave like I\u2019ve never seen.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather man says we\u2019re going push the mercury toward the ninety degree mark.\u00a0 That\u2019s not only gonna make the grouse hunting tricky but will also make trout … 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":[201,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430"}],"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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}