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The fishing remains much the same as the last report.\u00a0 Early mornings, and I mean early mornings, offer some of the best fishing of the day.\u00a0 Serious anglers should try to be stepping into the stream as the first light of day looms on the horizon.\u00a0 There you can fish streamers both big jointed offerings and small, naturally colored patterns.\u00a0 Big trout, late to the lair, from the midnight hunt may just be available to fishermen wading carefully and purposefully.<\/p>\n
Big attractor dry flies are also a good choice.\u00a0 Fish the rubber-legged bugs loudly\u2014slap them on the water next to log jams and along bottom color changes.\u00a0 Once the rings settle, twitch the fly and make the legs kick once before pausing and then kick the bug again right out into the middle of the creek.<\/p>\n
As sunlight starts to stream through riverside branches, knot a small nymph to the hook of that hopper.\u00a0 Small mayfly nymphs like tricos and olives will be getting active and become available to trout for breakfast.\u00a0 There is a lot of subsurface activity leading up to the trico and blue-winged olive hatches.\u00a0 Nymphing before and during those hatches is one of the most underused tactics on Northern Michigan Rivers.<\/p>\n
Tandem rigs are important this time of year.\u00a0 Hopper and dropper rigs, double nymph rigs, and double dry fly set ups are paramount to success.\u00a0 They should be bound together with very small tippet.\u00a0 7X and 8X are the order of the day.\u00a0 It can be a pain to try to twist up those combos on the stream and valuable time in a short bite window is lost, so smart anglers will use rigging foam and get prepared the night before.<\/p>\n
Rigging foams are tippet sized foam disks that allow fishermen to prep and store two fly systems.\u00a0 The foam has a hole in the middle and are stored nicely on any standard tippet holder.\u00a0 The Fishpond horizontal unit is perfect and Loons Tippet-T makes for another fine option.<\/p>\n
Middle of the day angling has been tough.\u00a0 Night fishing is still the best way to catch a big brown trout, but even that has changed a little.\u00a0 The fish have seen a good number of surface flies now, so don\u2019t ignore wet files like the Houghton Lake Special or Fat Heads.\u00a0 You may be surprised with the results.\u00a0 Mousing is easily the best way to catch a good trout in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 The after dark June fishing is the stuff of legend, but you are always at the mercy of the hatches.\u00a0 Mouse fishing happens every night or the Summer.\u00a0 Big fish feed have to feed and they\u2019re certainly not doing it in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Even though it\u2019s still hot outside, we\u2019re getting our Fall wares on the shelves so that means we\u2019re starting to clean out our Summer inventory.\u00a0 There\u2019s something special on the rack on our porch everyday\u2014be sure to swing through to find a great deal.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got some awesome Fall gear this year.\u00a0 The new camo offerings from SIMMS are amazing.\u00a0 I love the camo wader and the camo fishing shirt.\u00a0 And we\u2019ll have special surprise from a new vendor that most of you may not have heard of just yet.\u00a0 This company makes some truly great gear\u2014well designed, well built and exciting.\u00a0 We\u2019ll unveil the new line soon and I guarantee you\u2019ll like it and hear much more about this company in the years to come.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re still teaching folks to fish most days and would love to help you tune in your skills.\u00a0 Instructionals are inexpensive at $140 and guide trips are always fun.\u00a0 You can split one with a friend and spend half the day on our rivers for less than $150 per angler.<\/p>\n
Summer is winding down, so I hope you all get one more day on the River.<\/p>\n
See you soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 16, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The fishing remains much the same as the last report.\u00a0 Early mornings, and I mean early mornings, offer some of the best fishing of the day.\u00a0 Serious anglers should try to be stepping into the stream as the first light of day … 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],"tags":[176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}