{"id":1596,"date":"2018-06-14T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:03:41","slug":"river-report-june-14-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/14\/river-report-june-14-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report June 14, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

River Report June 14, 2018<\/p>\n

We\u2019re riding insane waves in a tide of schizophrenic weather and that has made fishing predictions nearly impossible.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been waiting on the immanent brown drake spinner flight on the Manistee River and we\u2019ve been spending late nights watching for Hex on the slower waters of the Au Sable River.\u00a0 The weather has been changing drastically every day.\u00a0 I\u2019m half expecting mildew to grow in my car since I have to blast the air conditioning on the way to the river each night and blast the heat every morning on the way to work.\u00a0 We\u2019ve already had more days topping out over eighty degrees this year than we had all of last Summer and my furnace is running as much as it did last October.\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n

\"Expert<\/a>
Expert Kindergarten Angler Blake with a Nice Brown Trout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anglers have reported each bug in very limited numbers on each of the rivers on each night over the past week.\u00a0 But still, neither hatch has yet materialized en masse.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s all coming , though.\u00a0 The next wave of heat has to cook the muck banks and get everything rolling.\u00a0 All of the phenological indicators point to an immediate emergence of the legendary Hex hatch.\u00a0 The fireflies are blinking in the tag alders, and the little white moths are on the two tracks when we return empty netted from the river watch.\u00a0 There\u2019s been Hex on the local lakes.\u00a0 And, most importantly, the irises are in bloom along the riverbanks.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m surprised it hasn\u2019t happened yet and will be astounded if we don\u2019t see bugs before the next report.\u00a0 But who knows?\u00a0 I\u2019m starting to wonder what I know.\u00a0 I think that just might be the beauty of what we do here.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter how much you think you know or how skillful you may you are\u2014the fishing depends on the hatches and the hatches depend on the weather and here we are in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 It\u2019s simple and frustrating and beautiful.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s nice to have something you just can\u2019t buy.\u00a0 When it comes together, you get to have pride in the fact that you were there to experience it.<\/p>\n

So kiss your loved ones and say goodbye to your bosses\u2014it\u2019s time to fish.\u00a0 It\u2019ll probably be good tonight.<\/p>\n

Phil Cook, the Scott Rod Sales Representative will be onsite at the shop on Saturday June 16th to help anglers tighten their loops, increase their accuracy, and just generally dial in their casts.\u00a0 When you fall in love with one of the rods he\u2019s showcasing, we will help you take one to your car by trading in your old rod toward the purchase of your new favorite stick.<\/p>\n

Get driving.<\/p>\n

See you soon,<\/p>\n

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

River Report June 14, 2018 We\u2019re riding insane waves in a tide of schizophrenic weather and that has made fishing predictions nearly impossible.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been waiting on the immanent brown drake spinner flight on the Manistee River and we\u2019ve been spending late nights watching for Hex on the slower waters of the Au Sable River.\u00a0 … 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":[200,148,155,84,7,166,5,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}