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Was finally able to find some time to get out and do a guide trip this past week on my old riverboat.\u00a0 Billy Lowes sanded her down and put a coat of fresh, dark green paint on her outside and many coats of fresh varnish on her insides.\u00a0 The old girl is shiny and has been scratching at the door like a winter weary bird dog to get into water.<\/p>\n
I love that old boat.<\/p>\n
Walt Mikesel built it sometime around nineteen fifty out of four, clear-cedar, twelve inch planks (wood that would be difficult to even find these days) and her lines are arrow straight and she is nimble and yar.\u00a0 I sold her for an old river family eleven years ago and always wanted her back.\u00a0 I\u2019ve run her for four years now and I\u2019ll pass her along to Jack someday and he\u2019ll pass her along again\u2014God willing.\u00a0 She\u2019s battled scared, but her bones are strong.\u00a0 Best boat on the River but, of course, I\u2019m biased.\u00a0 All Au Sable Riverboat guides love their boats and many spend as much time with them as they do with their loved ones and rub them lovingly with a clean diaper every time they\u2019re dirty.<\/p>\n
I need a name for my riverboat.\u00a0\u00a0 She deserves one.\u00a0 She\u2019s a lovely platform for the Au sable River.<\/p>\n
Fishing is tricky with the eighty degree, sunny days. Trout like it cold, dark, and wet so hot, bright, and sunny makes middle of the day angling problematic.\u00a0 It\u2019s plenty do-able, though.\u00a0\u00a0 You just have to use every trick in your arsenal.\u00a0 We caught fish on big stoneflies rubbed against the wood, and we caught fish on single dry flies and even more on wet flies. \u00a0Nothing worked all the time so we changed a lot and fooled a few.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a plethora of aquatic trout fodder out there.\u00a0 We saw popcorn caddis, thrasher stones, and suplhurs just to name a few.\u00a0 And there\u2019s many more to come.\u00a0 The early mornings and late evenings will be the time of focus, but the water is pumping cold and the whole system is fishable.<\/p>\n
The unseasonably hot weather is cooking the muck banks and the first of the brown drakes will appear in the next ten days.\u00a0 It\u2019s the greatest time to be a stream trout fisherman.<\/p>\n
Have a great Holiday,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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