{"id":1556,"date":"2018-05-17T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2018-05-17T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:40:13","slug":"the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-20\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2018<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1559 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jumping-fish-300x120.jpg\" alt=\"Jumping fish\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Summer-like here in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a fantastic string of eighty degree, sunny days here.\u00a0 It warms the bones, the trout, the rivers, and the bugs.\u00a0 We\u2019ve lost a lot of our problematic high Spring water and with more seasonable temperatures and conditions in front of us, local trout fishermen are drooling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1557 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/close-fish-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"close fish\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The main stream of the Au Sable, the North Branch, and the Manistee are in good shape for both wading and boat anglers.\u00a0 The South is still formidable with high water, but it\u2019s do-able for the daring wader and dropping a little every day.\u00a0 It\u2019s all pretty good news.\u00a0 We\u2019re well into May now and, frankly, it\u2019s about time to get down to the business of good fishing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1558 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/al-boat-load-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"al boat load\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have a smorgasbord of flies hatching and the trout are taking notice with more fish rising with each new day.\u00a0 Hendricksons are still coming off and the spinners are flying every night.\u00a0 Black caddis are in the mix right alongside of tan caddis and both insects are flying around morning, noon, and especially at night and have smaller trout jumping out of the water.\u00a0 Paralelpts, or little mahoganies, have joined the party and have complicated the rise.\u00a0 Their big brothers, Leptos, are also joining the gang and may just be as or more important than Hendricksons as the sun falls below the tree line.\u00a0 The best news about those guys is that you can use the same fly pattern you use for the Hendrickson.\u00a0 Just be sure to have some size fourteen spinners without an egg sac attached.<\/p>\n<p>But you have to be ready for even more entomological complications. \u00a0The late Spring has the bugs backed up.\u00a0 You need to be ready for the light bodied bugs that are certainly on the brink of hatching and that will almost certainly by the time you catch this report.\u00a0 Light Hendricksons, popcorn caddis, and suplhurs will show any minute.\u00a0 That means bring your box and keep your head on a swivel.<\/p>\n<p>It is frustrating and glorious. Hatch-match dry fly angling.\u00a0 It is my favorite time of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Fishing has been tough and it\u2019s about to get better at the same time it gets hard.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n<p>See you soon!<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2018 &nbsp; It\u2019s Summer-like here in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 We\u2019ve had a fantastic string of eighty degree, sunny days here.\u00a0 It warms the bones, the trout, the rivers, and the bugs.\u00a0 We\u2019ve lost a lot of our problematic high Spring water and with more seasonable temperatures and conditions in front of us, local trout &#8230; <a title=\"The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/the-old-au-sable-fly-shop-fishing-report-20\/\" aria-label=\"More on The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report\">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":[148,155,84,7,5],"tags":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}