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By inches and nudges Spring is slowly creeping in.\u00a0 We\u2019re moving from highs in the thirties and low forties to highs in the forties and even fifties.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a slow but sunny climb and that sunshine has everyone in Northern Michigan feeling the aches of Spring Fever.<\/p>\n
A day on the stream can be good medicine.\u00a0 While the angling hasn\u2019t been red hot, it has been solid on the best days.\u00a0 I pow-wowed with Donnie the other day to pick his brain on what he\u2019d been noticing in trends and tactics while guiding on the river, and he had some good observations.\u00a0 Like all good anglers, he\u2019s a student of weather patterns and this Spring he\u2019s been paying close attention to barometric pressure.\u00a0 While this is always an allusive science at best (sorta like moon-phase stuff), he\u2019s been witnessing that as long as the pressure is moving, even slightly, in either direction some better fish are swiping smaller, slowly retrieved streamers.<\/p>\n
He also talked to me about closing the deal once a fish is coming to the fly.\u00a0 This is an art.\u00a0 At least when it goes right.\u00a0 Streamer fishing is often a visual game.\u00a0 Like hunting, you get to see everything and what you do in the final seconds make all the difference.\u00a0 Sometimes, and we\u2019re talking about water temperatures and weather conditions here, you\u2019ve got to speed up the retrieve to a long trout that\u2019s moving to your fly.\u00a0 Other times, the fish takes and releases so quickly that only a quick, hard, instinctive hookset will close the deal.\u00a0 Lately, in this cold water, the takes have been on the pause.\u00a0\u00a0 That can be hard to do.\u00a0 Imagine for a moment that you haven\u2019t seen a fish all day and then a leviathan rises from some dark cut \u00a0and slips quietly behind your fly.\u00a0 Maybe the best trout you\u2019ve ever seen and your job is to quit moving the fly in the way that brought the fish up in the first place.\u00a0 It\u2019s mind boggling.\u00a0 And none of this is a rule\u2014you\u2019ve got to read the fish every time.\u00a0 If you get it wrong, the fish sinks back into the black.<\/p>\n
Fishing is here and it only gets better.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll see you soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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