{"id":1485,"date":"2017-11-22T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:04:23","slug":"river-report-november-21-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/22\/river-report-november-21-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report November 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 21, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Rain.\u00a0 It\u2019s rained and snowed and the wind has blown and the sun disappeared for most of the deer season so far.\u00a0 We\u2019ve hunted in the grimpen mire.\u00a0 And most folks in Northern Michigan had some tough sledding.\u00a0 The buck poles were light on opening day.\u00a0 The guys that scored were champions of their deer camps\u2014and lucky.\u00a0 Most hunters just didn\u2019t see many whitetails in the beginnings of our coveted season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve talked to a few hunters that knocked down a racked buck that ended up being the only deer saw in the first few days of the season.\u00a0 That\u2019s hard licks for hunters that can only put their cards on the table for a long opening weekend, but it\u2019s good news for late\"IMG_0054\"<\/a> season hunters.\u00a0 At least, we buckless Michiganders hope so.\u00a0 In the areas where bait is legal or where private land folks have food plots, those racked whitetails should get off the rut-muscle and look to actually feed as rifle season stretches toward December.\u00a0 Savvy riflemen should go early and stay late as the best deer will likely move in the smallest hours of dawn and dusk.\u00a0 There\u2019s been a lot of hunter activity out there in the forests and fields and shooter bucks are smart when the mating season ends and they\u2019re thinking with their brains again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is still of lot of deer hunting left and plenty of time to harvest food for your family.\u00a0 The regular firearm deer season ends at last light on November 30<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup>, but archery picks back up again the day after and, this year, muzzleloading season start on December 1<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0as well.\u00a0 Then, on private land, in many of our neighboring counties a late \"1416508519928\"<\/a>firearm antlerless deer season starts on December 18<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and pushes the opportunity to fill your freezer right out to January 1<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup>.\u00a0 Of course, you should check the Michigan Deer Antlerless Digest to be sure of which counties are open to the late season, but I will tell you that over the counter tags are very likely available in the units that are open.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll be back behind the dogs December 1<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0if the weather allows, and I may even poke downstate to see if I can find one of those Michigan ditch parrots.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m all but done fishing for the year.\u00a0 Sure I\u2019ll make trip here and there down to the stream but I\u2019m mostly putting the River to bed for a while I\u2019m sure it could use the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll be tying flies before you know it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hope to see you soon,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

November 21, 2017 \u00a0 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report \u00a0 Rain.\u00a0 It\u2019s rained and snowed and the wind has blown and the sun disappeared for most of the deer season so far.\u00a0 We\u2019ve hunted in the grimpen mire.\u00a0 And most folks in Northern Michigan had some tough sledding.\u00a0 The buck poles were … 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":[201,151,152,84,7,154,149,166,5,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}