{"id":1669,"date":"2018-10-06T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:03:40","slug":"river-report-october-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/06\/river-report-october-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report October 3, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 3, 2018<\/p>\n

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n

October has finally arrived and is well underway.\u00a0 We\u2019re settled nicely into Fall weather patterns and the trout and grouse and deer are doing exactly what they should be doing in October.\"10<\/a><\/p>\n

The streamer bite has greatly improved with the current cool, wet weather trend.\u00a0 The brown trout clearly have spawning on their<\/p>\n

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Fall Colors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

mind and are looking for big easy meals in preparation for the rigors of love and the battles over spawning gravel.\u00a0 They\u2019ll need to beef up\u2014it looks like there\u2019s a good crop of nice-sized trout in the river this Fall.\u00a0 The males will have a knock down fight on their hands for the best segments of the stream.\u00a0 Expect them to be territorially aggressive as the mating season nears.<\/p>\n

Until then they\u2019ll make killing swipes at big, slow moving offerings in their quest for heft and bulk.\u00a0 So far tandem flies tied in yellow and white have triggered violent takes.\u00a0 Streamers weighted heavily at the head and dressed with naturally undulating materials like marabou and rabbit strips are the tools of choice.\u00a0 Slow strips with a pause that create a jigging motion will likely reward anglers.\u00a0 This is about as good as streamer fishing gets.\u00a0 Brightly colored flies and yellow sided slashing strikes make for a wonderfully visual affair.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re also experiencing a better than average Fall Blue-winged olive hatch in the afternoons.\u00a0 Fall olives can range in sizes\u2014have an assortment of patterns from size 18 to 22.\u00a0 Those little flies are the last rise of the season.\u00a0 The fish that surface won\u2019t be big but they\u2019ll be colored up and make for a lively game on light rods and line.<\/p>\n

The woods are alive too.\u00a0 Bird hunting reports are wildly mixed and the hunting is spotty.\u00a0 But, though some woodlots seem devoid of chicken, others have you covered up in grouse as soon as you get out of the truck.\u00a0 Regardless, shooting is tough at best.\u00a0 All of the leaves are still up and it\u2019s nearly impossible to get a bead on a bird.\u00a0 Changing leaves and forecast thunderstorms should help knock down the cover.\u00a0 Migrating woodcock will be here before you know it.<\/p>\n

I just can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

Hope you can find some time to enjoy Michigan.<\/p>\n

Take care,<\/p>\n

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

October 3, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report October has finally arrived and is well underway.\u00a0 We\u2019re settled nicely into Fall weather patterns and the trout and grouse and deer are doing exactly what they should be doing in October. The streamer bite has greatly improved with the current cool, wet weather … 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":[200,84,7,166,5,150,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669"}],"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=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}