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<\/a>I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.\u00a0 How do we go from a wintery April to a steaming May?\u00a0 There were only a couple of days of Spring in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 My buddy Josh took the snowplow off of his working truck one day and hooked his guide boat to it the next.\u00a0 His Ford F250 diesel (Big Tina) barely had time to make the switch.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s been dizzying.<\/p>\n
The river has every kind of May aquatic insect known to Michiganders.\u00a0 The daytime fishing has been tough in the heat and the evening rise has been maddening.\u00a0 When the sun falls below the tree line, all the winged bugs come out in force.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even list them all, or more honestly, I don\u2019t care to.\u00a0 Simply, take every fly you own.\u00a0 There are dark bodied mayflies available to trout from size twelve to eighteen.\u00a0 And there\u2019s yellow mayflies ranging from size twelve March Browns to size eighteen Sulphurs.\u00a0 Most of them are showing up in all forms, so be prepared to tie on emergers, duns, and spinners for each bug.\u00a0 One trout may be eating one phase of a particular insect and them the next will be selectively feeding on a different phase of a different insect.\u00a0 It\u2019s tough but when we figure it out, we\u2019re putting quite a few quality fish in the net.<\/p>\n
To make matters worse, the mosquitos are out in biblical proportions.\u00a0 A week ago we were fishing unfettered and not bothered by even one skeeter.\u00a0Then in a single evening all of the mosquitos hatched.\u00a0The swarm descends on anglers in a thick cloud.\u00a0 The other night I sprayed up heavily and, though I never got bitten, I breathed in three.<\/p>\n
But good anglers look on the bright side of life.\u00a0There are lots of bugs and all fly fishers like that.\u00a0 There are plenty of nice fish rising, so that\u2019s good.\u00a0Better yet, the fabled Brown Drake hatch getting is about to explode.\u00a0 Get here soon because if the weather holds they\u2019ll move through the system quickly.<\/p>\n
I caught three nice fish last night during a heavy flight. The flies were tinking against my rod and landing on my face.\u00a0It was a spectacle.<\/p>\n
Have fun out there!<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n
PS On a more somber note.\u00a0 A recent DNR fish stocking survey found shockingly low numbers of young trout on the North Branch of the Au Sable. The DNR and DEQ are giving the situation high priority and pledge to aggressively monitor assess the situation. Until we know more, you may want to keep your brook trout and daytime angling to other rivers that are fishing very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
May 31, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s been Africa hot for a good ten Days.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t worn a pair of waders yet on a guide trip.\u00a0 Wet wading is supposed to be a wonderful relief in July and August heat.\u00a0 So far, it\u2019s been a welcome relief to May … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,148,155,84,7,166,5,150,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}