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The first whiffs of Fall are finally in the breeze.\u00a0 The mornings are crisp and cool.\u00a0 It feels good to put on socks and boots and heavy brush pants.\u00a0 Bird season is well underway and the dogs are earning their kibble.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a good start to the cast and blast season.\u00a0 The trout are just starting their transitions in to Fall patterns.\u00a0 The brook trout will be staging up to spawn soon enough and the browns will be looking for big meals in preparation for the battle over prime spawning gravel.\u00a0 Any cloudy, rainy day should be a great time to chuck big, meaty streamers.\u00a0 Until then, the night fly bite will be your best chance at fooling a heavy brown trout.<\/p>\n
It would be wise, with the current weather trends to fish at dawn and dusk and after dark and to hike the grouse woods before lunch until just after dinner.\u00a0 The grouse will be in the thick, thorny stuff early, will move to food for a late breakfast and will be pecking at fruit until it\u2019s time to swallow some crop gravel during the heat of the day.\u00a0 Look for them to move back into impenetrable, ground roosting cover near taller trees just about the time you should be pulling back on your waders.<\/p>\n
This is my favorite time to live in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 Well, in another week or two anyway.\u00a0 The season change in Fall is magic.\u00a0 The waters empty of anglers and woods that have been devoid of people for many months cool enough to welcome hunters.\u00a0 The ferns tip over and the leaves begin to thin.\u00a0 The animals are robust, healthy and strong.<\/p>\n
October may just be the finest month of our Michigan year.\u00a0 It\u2019s deer and trout and grouse and fires in the woodstove and it\u2019s wool and waxed cotton.\u00a0 The leaves change and you breathe earth.\u00a0 And, again, the leaves change.\u00a0 If you have any chance at all this year stop by the shop when the leaves are turning and I\u2019ll show you how to get your four-wheeled truck to the top of Bald Hill.\u00a0 It is simply the best color view in Crawford County.<\/p>\n
Plus, the new Fall clothing and gear line up is in the shop and there are some great new pieces to check out.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got plenty of openings for guided fishing trips and a couple of days open for grouse\u2014just give the shop a shout if you\u2019re interested and we\u2019ll do our best to get you in the books.<\/p>\n
Get out and enjoy the Fall!<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
September 27, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The first whiffs of Fall are finally in the breeze.\u00a0 The mornings are crisp and cool.\u00a0 It feels good to put on socks and boots and heavy brush pants.\u00a0 Bird season is well underway and the dogs are earning their kibble. It\u2019s … 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":[200,151,148,152,155,84,149],"tags":[169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}