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<\/a>It\u2019s hopper time on the Au Sable and Manistee.\u00a0 Water temperatures on the Upper Rivers are right where they should be this time of year and the ten day forecast shows nothing but seasonable weather.\u00a0 And that is just what we want at any given point in the year.<\/p>\n
With lows in the Fifties and highs around Eighty, you\u2019ll see tricos emerge around\u00a0 8 a.m. and Slate-Winged Olives should show up about a half hour later.\u00a0 Be on the river as early as possible and you won\u2019t miss a thing, but be sure to stay into the afternoon if you can.\u00a0 The early morning surface activity will get trout looking up and terrestrial and junk bug fishing should continue until mid-afternoon.<\/p>\n
When prospecting, keep your flies in the shadow and along the river bottom transition lines.\u00a0 Keep the fly kicking and twitching and skittering between reasonable pauses\u2014fish the fly like it\u2019s alive.<\/p>\n
DO SOME EXPLORING!\u00a0 Pull out your map and follow the thin, gray, straight lines to where they cross the thin, blue, squiggly lines and put a little adventure in your life.\u00a0 There\u2019s somewhere between 11, 500 and 13,000 miles of trout stream in Michigan (depending on what you read) and most of it hardly sees an angler.\u00a0 Go find yourself a secret creek.\u00a0 There is wild left for those that seek it.<\/p>\n
This is also a fine time to treat you and\/or someone you love to a guided float trip down the Au Sable.\u00a0 Sharing time on the river with friends and family is time you keep forever.\u00a0 I\u2019m learning that as Summers pass and Jack gets another year older.\u00a0\u00a0 So drifting down the River and having someone else worry about all the knots and tangles and details makes a lot of sense for folks wanting to focus the people closest to them.\u00a0 I\u2019m swapping a trip with our newest guide, Chris Lessaway.\u00a0 He\u2019ll take Jack and I on a float and, in turn, I\u2019ll take Chris and his daughter.<\/p>\n Guide trips are a special treat.\u00a0 I think of them like going out to a nice dinner.\u00a0 We can all cook a steak with the best of them, but it sure is nice to eat someone else\u2019s\u2014especially when it\u2019s delivered to our seat, and someone else does the clean-up.\u00a0 I\u2019d take a guided fishing trip three times a week if I could.\u00a0 And I\u2019d poke that guide to cook me that steak on the River. \u00a0And I\u2019d never do dishes ever again!<\/p>\n Summer is settling in now and, somehow, it already feels like it\u2019s slipping away.\u00a0 Only six weeks left in Jack\u2019s five-year-old Summer.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to have to make those days count.\u00a0 Try to make yours count too.<\/p>\n Fishing is solid.\u00a0 Night time fishing almost guarantees a heavy trout to hand.\u00a0 And the weather is Michigan perfect.<\/p>\n Hope you can find some time to get out and enjoy Northern Michigan,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n PS It\u2019s time to just simply go fishing.\u00a0 And it\u2019s time to get new anglers introduced to this wonderful lifetime sport.\u00a0 The Old Au Sable is offering beginner classes August 18th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The class covers everything a new fisherman needs to know.\u00a0 Students will spend time learning on both dry ground and in the river.\u00a0 Our class is for all ages and families, lasts for four hours and includes a free rod and reel package.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great deal and a wonderful way to get started down the path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 19, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s hopper time on the Au Sable and Manistee.\u00a0 Water temperatures on the Upper Rivers are right where they should be this time of year and the ten day forecast shows nothing but seasonable weather.\u00a0 And that is just what we want at any … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,148,155,84,7,166,5,163,158],"tags":[192,23,172,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>