{"id":1477,"date":"2017-11-08T19:17:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:17:51","slug":"the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 7, 2017<\/p>\n

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n

Anglers are moving those brown trout around in fair numbers.\u00a0 The bigger streamers seem to be garnering attention but smaller flies in the three inch range are the best bet\u2014you simply target more fish.\u00a0 The rivers are in much better shape than the deluge last week left them and the clarity is such that black, olive and copper are all great color choices.\u00a0 Wading is still an issue but the strong of heart and weak of mind will find plenty opportunity.<\/p>\n

The boys are finding steelhead on the swing using spey tactics in river like the Pere Marquette and Muskegon.\u00a0 This is their time to shine as brightly as the dime chrome fish they pursue.\u00a0 Even if that isn\u2019t in your wheelhouse of techniques, catching a fish on the swing should be on every Michigan angler\u2019s bucket list.\u00a0 It certainly is on mine.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been working on shuffling that time into my schedule for years and I\u2019m confident this is my year.<\/p>\n

Bird season is wrapping up for another season, but I\u2019m still trying to get my last looks in\u2014cutting upland time into my bow hunting hours.\u00a0 They marry well.\u00a0 I hunt in the rising or falling light and hike the woods with my setters around noon day sandwiches.\u00a0 You just can\u2019t do it all this time of year, but outdoorsmen should certainly try.<\/p>\n

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\"Scrape\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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All of your preparation and all of your scouting doesn\u2019t mean anything if you\u2019re not in the woods to let the opportunity greet it. \u00a0The birds have moved to classic and predictable covers and the white-tailed bucks are stiff-legged rutting on the muscle.<\/p>\n

But all of that: the brown trout, the steelhead, the grouse hunting, and the bow hunting doesn\u2019t mean a thing to the perhaps 750,000 rifle deer hunters that could take the woods this season.\u00a0 And, you know what, for good reason.\u00a0 Rifle season is a Michigan tradition.\u00a0 It\u2019s a time for friends and family to take to little shacks and hunting shanties and live under a propane hiss.\u00a0 It\u2019s a time for young hunters to grin over their first deer and for old hunters to find one more.\u00a0 It puts people elbow to elbow in cramped quarters listening to old stories of victory and bad luck.\u00a0 And puts them to sleep with the common goal of making new stories.\u00a0 It wakes them up to bacon frying and grand hopes of the camp record.<\/p>\n

And, if nothing else, it puts folks sitting silently in stillness in the great forests of Michigan.<\/p>\n

I hope you all find it all this year,<\/p>\n

Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Anglers are moving those brown trout around in fair numbers.\u00a0 The bigger streamers seem to be garnering attention but smaller flies in the three inch range are the best bet\u2014you simply target more fish.\u00a0 The rivers are in much better shape than the deluge … 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":[152,7,149,166,5,153,150],"tags":[181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"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=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}