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October 10, 2017<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve continued with the Summer-like weather trend for the entire Fall so far and it\u2019s been a tourism boon to our little Northern Michigan communities.\u00a0 Folks love the warm and have made the trip Up North in big numbers.\u00a0 But if the weatherman is going to earn his money this week, it looks like we\u2019re in for more seasonable conditions.\u00a0 And anyone who knows me knows that I love seasonable conditions.\u00a0 It just gives hunters and fishermen a better chance at predicting what to do and what to expect in the October fields and streams.<\/p>\n
Of course, I love that edge\u2014perceived though it may be.\u00a0 If the weather prediction holds, I\u2019m guessing that the fishing will improve vastly over the coming week.\u00a0 That means that small streamers and wet flies should combine with the possibility of hatching blue-winged olives to create some great fishing for Brook Trout dressed in spawning colors and maybe even for some thick bellied brown trout putting on the feed bag to prepare for the rigors of their mating season.<\/p>\n
This has always been one of my favorite times to trout fish.\u00a0 We bust out artfully styled streamers like the Gray Ghost, Black Ghost, Royal Coachman Streamer, and the venerable Micky Finn.\u00a0 The flies are classic beauties and the fish that eat them are fantastically colored.<\/p>\n
I also would consider fishing nymphs tied behind high floating dry flies.\u00a0 One of the most memorable days I ever had was with one of my old friends doing just that exactly during this time frame.\u00a0\u00a0 My friend said, \u201cLet\u2019s count \u2018em today and let\u2019s see if we can catch fifty.\u201d\u00a0 The brook trout were insanely willing that afternoon and we turned off our mental clickers after only two-and-a-half hours.\u00a0 And I watched a bobcat sneak to the end of a river logjam to get better look at my partner.\u00a0 That was a great day.<\/p>\n
The cool weather should also get the woodcock migration moving.\u00a0 If that\u2019s true the flights could be concentrated these next few weeks and the shooting could be fast.\u00a0 It could also allow us to get our dogs running in the afternoons where we just might be able to catch grouse on their food sources.\u00a0 It\u2019s right to get excited.<\/p>\n
We just may a couple of more spots open for The Old Au Sable Streamer Weekend on November 3, 4, and 5 for anyone interested in hunting large brown trout in our area.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be in a boat along with Sage Sales Representative Ben Hunting and Ben will have any Sage or Redington Rod that you may want to for a day.\u00a0 I\u2019m truly looking forward to the event and hope you can make it as well.\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/blog\/brown-trout-safari\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n Things are about to heat up with this cool down coming\u2014I hope you get to find your time in our outdoors.<\/p>\n Thank you,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 10, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We\u2019ve continued with the Summer-like weather trend for the entire Fall so far and it\u2019s been a tourism boon to our little Northern Michigan communities.\u00a0 Folks love the warm and have made the trip Up North in big numbers.\u00a0 But if the … 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":[148,164,84,7,149,166,5],"tags":[107,45,31,33,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"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=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}