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<\/a>It is the stuff of legend and lore.\u00a0 Anglers from all over the world descend on our little corner of trout greatness to take part in a trout fishing event unrivaled in the rivers of North America.\u00a0 An insect hatch so enormous that it shows up on satellite radar\u2014it can literally be seen from space.\u00a0 The Hex hatch is well underway on the Au Sable River here in Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a time of fortune and folly.\u00a0 Many anglers will bring to hand huge trout that make an angler\u2019s career.\u00a0 Other will have fabulous stories of explosive takes and screaming runs and, ultimately, of the one that got away.\u00a0 Oftentimes, those stories last even longer than the faded Polaroids of fat-bellied browns and grinning anglers.<\/p>\n
Hex time gathers fishing buddies and families in fishing camps along the river.\u00a0 Some folks only make it to Crawford County just this one time of the year to partake in the big fly fever and reunite.\u00a0 Nothing<\/p>\n quite like sharing a log with a friend as evening falls and hopes of trout rise.\u00a0 You\u2019ll hear lots of laughing in the dark on the Au Sable.\u00a0 The fraternity of fishermen here is a fine group of humans.<\/p>\n There will be lots of late nights and lots of bleary-eyed fly fishermen haunting the shops in the mornings and the darkest corners of the rivers at midnight.\u00a0 Stories will be long and detailed and the pace will be frenzied.\u00a0 This is the week.\u00a0 The bins will get picked clean of over-sized mayflies soon and all of the hoopla will slide away into family vacations days at the lake.\u00a0 Fishermen will start to thin out; leaving the river a lonelier place at a milder pace.<\/p>\n We\u2019re all excited for the next ten days of chasing hex and trophy trout, but I think we\u2019re all eyeballing the next season on the Au Sable too.\u00a0 July is grasshoppers and Royal Coachmans and whatever time of day suits your nap schedule.\u00a0 Huge trout, heart stopping strikes, and finger burning reel runs are certainly a great part of this sport, but there\u2019s plenty more to it as well and sometimes a quiet, misty morning and a sparse rise is just about as good as the world gets.<\/p>\n Have fun out there,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 21, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It is the stuff of legend and lore.\u00a0 Anglers from all over the world descend on our little corner of trout greatness to take part in a trout fishing event unrivaled in the rivers of North America.\u00a0 An insect hatch so enormous that it … 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\/1605"}],"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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>