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<\/a>Just a week since the last report and Drakes have shown up on nearly every stretch of the Au Sable River System.\u00a0 The hot weather pushed water temperatures up everywhere and the bugs emerged and spun throughout the river in harmony.\u00a0 In fact, we are past peak on much of the River of Sand.\u00a0 Generally, we get to chase any hatch for two or three weeks throughout or dynamic system\u2014that just didn\u2019t happen with this particular hatch during this peculiar season.<\/p>\n
Isonychia, or Mahogany Drakes, have started to emerge in good numbers on the Au Sable and that usually means we\u2019ve crested the best of the big, brown bug.\u00a0 The good news is that cool nights may have saved drake anglers that were waiting for perfect conditions.\u00a0 The cold nights have semi-stalled the spinnerfalls, so there may just be a few good nights left when backed up mating flights find seasonable temperatures.\u00a0 The Iso\u2019s will make for great action leading up to the Drake spinner dumps.\u00a0 There is some fine angling when these two flies overlap, so don\u2019t dawdle if you want a chance at a good rising trout before the Hex show up.<\/p>\n
Brown Drakes are just getting underway on the Holy Waters and on the Manistee.\u00a0 This week should have those rivers living up to their potential.\u00a0 The best news is that all rivers seem to have plenty of low to midteen-sized trout swimming in them and there is a good crop of truly big trout.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen more pictures of legitimate two foot long\u00a0 Hex are getting close.\u00a0 The nymphs are stirring in the muck banks.\u00a0 If conditions hold, the hatch progression dictates that we should see the first of them any day.\u00a0 Look to the South and the Lower Main first.<\/p>\n This season is flying by\u2014don\u2019t miss it,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 7, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Just a week since the last report and Drakes have shown up on nearly every stretch of the Au Sable River System.\u00a0 The hot weather pushed water temperatures up everywhere and the bugs emerged and spun throughout the river in harmony.\u00a0 In fact, we … 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":[200,155,84,7,166,5,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587"}],"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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> brown trout this year than I can ever remember by this point in the season.\u00a0 So not only is there a great chance that an angler will find some rod bending good times, fishermen have a better chance at a true trophy than we\u2019ve had in since I\u2019ve been a part of the trout community in Crawford County. Of course, it all depends on conditions and none of it happens for anglers that don\u2019t go.<\/p>\n