{"id":1532,"date":"2018-04-05T14:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2018-04-05T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:49:59","slug":"the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-17\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 4, 2018<\/p>\n

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

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\"Donnie<\/a>
Fishy young man with Donnie Richards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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What can I say?\u00a0 I\u2019m done trying to predict the fishing based on the ten day weather forecast\u2014at least for a little while.\u00a0 Spring in Michigan always throws up curve balls, but this year has been ridiculous.\u00a0 This year Momma Nature is serving up Phil Nierko knuckle balls.\u00a0 It\u2019s frustrating at best.\u00a0 That said, streamer fishing will continue to produce on low barometric pressure changes and, if it ever warms up, the run-off events should produce.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t ask me which days those will occur.\u00a0 I\u2019m taking fishing predictions one day at a time.\u00a0 I may be able to help with what will happen tomorrow.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 You\u2019ve gotta love Northern Michigan; it certainly makes you earn it.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something I can say for certain, \u201cWe are officially toed into the twenty eighteen fishing season\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The twenty seventeen season ended March thirty-first, so it\u2019s time to pick up your new fishing license.\u00a0 Fishing licenses in Michigan are good for all species and cost twenty-six dollars for residents seventeen to sixty-four, are free for kids under seventeen, and only cost eleven bucks for seniors.\u00a0 I wish it were free for seniors\u2014they\u2019ve already paid their dues.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Regardless, it\u2019s still the cheapest entertainment you can buy.\u00a0 My goal is to go so often that each trip only costs pennies.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s so odd outside right now.\u00a0 The robins and woodcock have started to return along with a whole bunch of disappointed song birds.\u00a0 And the turkeys have already started to strut.\u00a0 All the up North world believes Spring is nearly here and now we\u2019re all trudging through a foot of folly.\u00a0 It\u2019d be funny if it were actually an April Fool\u2019s joke.\u00a0 And I guess I\u2019m sorta chuckling.\u00a0 But with more of a \u201cwhat else you gonna do but laugh\u201d type of laugh.<\/p>\n

A month ago I thought that we\u2019d be fishing dry flies by mid-April.\u00a0 Now, I only know two things\u2014the first is that I don\u2019t know anything and, secondly, that nature is a stern, knuckle-rapping teacher.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m polishing up and organizing my tools of ignorance and getting ready for everything that is on the horizon and will certainly come.\u00a0 Rods are stacked by my waders and fly boxes and my turkey calls are in the bag next to my decoys and camouflage.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

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

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

April 4, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     What can I say?\u00a0 I\u2019m done trying to predict the fishing based on the ten day weather forecast\u2014at least for a little while.\u00a0 Spring in Michigan always throws up curve balls, but this year has been ridiculous.\u00a0 This year Momma Nature is … 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":[84,7,160,166,5],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532"}],"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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}