January 1, 2018<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
We are flat in the clutches of winter.\u00a0 Ice fishing is rolling in most of the state.\u00a0 We have safe ice conditions in on many of our local waters.\u00a0 The West side of the state seems to have the most dubious conditions, however.\u00a0 Heavy lake effect snow over there has insulated ice on lakes and the ice quality is tricky.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to be very careful on water with lots of snow on it.\u00a0 You can run into thick slush and white, low quality ice.\u00a0 A few inches of hard, clear ice is much stronger than the same thickness of the white stuff.<\/p>\n
That said, we\u2019ve got good ice on many of the interior water bodies.\u00a0 Even the most stubborn of lakes, Higgins, has strong blue ice in areas.\u00a0 Guys are pulling some nice pike to the surface while tip-up fishing and finding perch in low numbers but with good size.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to be extremely cautious there and be sure to stop by the local bait shops for the most up-to-date conditions.\u00a0 One of my friends caught two thirteen inch perch fishing Higgins last week on about four inches of hard water.<\/p>\n
Saginaw Bay is on fire.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get there one way or another soon.\u00a0 It should be worth the trip.\u00a0 You can creel eight walleye on the Bay and plenty of folks are getting them all.\u00a0 And I hear the perch are running nice sized this year as well.\u00a0 Another friend of mine was four miles out the other day and had eight inches of ice.\u00a0 Again, be safe.\u00a0 Conditions change fast on the big water.\u00a0 With a lot of these places you should simply follow the tracks of others that may just know the area and ice better than you do and always, always visit the most local bait shop.\u00a0 They don\u2019t stay in business by letting folks fall through the ice.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m mostly a pan fisherman when it comes to ice-holing.\u00a0 I\u2019d give you this tidbit of advice\u2014keep the small ones and be more gentle with the big ones.\u00a0 A ten inch bluegill is an old, super spawner.\u00a0 Patience and a razor sharp knife can clean plenty of eight inchers.<\/p>\n
Fly Tying starts Saturday January 13th<\/sup> at noon.\u00a0 This class will have value for everyone from beginner to advanced.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about all sorts of stuff that will make you a better trout angler.\u00a0 Free and open to all.<\/p>\n Hope you can make it,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 1, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We are flat in the clutches of winter.\u00a0 Ice fishing is rolling in most of the state.\u00a0 We have safe ice conditions in on many of our local waters.\u00a0 The West side of the state seems to have the most dubious conditions, however.\u00a0 Heavy … 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":[156,84,154,166,167,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}