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December 30,2017<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
Here we go!\u00a0 It\u2019s ice fishing time now.\u00a0 The winter blast is upon us.\u00a0 We normally average about thirty degrees this time of year but the current ten day forecast is locked in single and low double digits.\u00a0 The ice machine is cranking.\u00a0 I can almost hear the ice popping and cracking.\u00a0 I can certainly hear it when my deck pops under my feet on the morning trudge out to my wood pile.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been on the ice plenty of times with newbies when the ice sharp cracks under our bucket and watched them flinch wide-eyed.\u00a0 I actually like that unsettling sound; that sound just means ice is forming to me.\u00a0 But I guess you just aren\u2019t human if you don\u2019t jump a little at the sound of breaking ice under your feet.\u00a0 And, remember, I check ice constantly on my path to the fishing grounds during the early season and I just don\u2019t go on ice that\u2019s thinner than four or five inches.<\/p>\n
Now six inches of ice may just hold a snowmobile and some would say nine inches will hold a car.\u00a0 But ice can vary drastically especially in rivers or big lakes.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply just smart to error on the side of caution.\u00a0 \u00a0Falling through the ice is just not the way I want to go.<\/p>\n
That said, that early ice season can produce results too good for many to let pass.\u00a0 \u00a0I\u2019m seeing it all over social media.\u00a0 Pictures of limit walleye and perch catches from Saginaw Bay are alluring.\u00a0 And reports of up to twelve inches of ice are compelling and drawing.\u00a0 I heard the most stubborn of Northern Michigan lakes, Higgins, iced over today and that means that I\u2019m about to slide cautiously onto the hard water somewhere very soon.\u00a0 Preferably with a friend that\u2019s fatter and more eager than me\u2014a partner that\u2019s getting harder to find in my middle age.\u00a0 That said, my ice fishing friends are also getting old and old ice fishermen tend to be pretty wise about safety.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got some goals this winter.\u00a0 Fish I\u2019d like to catch and waters I\u2019d like to visit.\u00a0 But mostly I just want to see Jack happy fishing with his Dad.<\/p>\n
Have a Great Holiday Season,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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