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We\u2019re moving into the latest pages of Fall.\u00a0 As October rolls into November the leaves curl on the ground and frosty mornings give way to occasional smatterings of snow.\u00a0 The deer are healthy and strong and the grouse are all full fanned and mature.\u00a0 Ducks and geese are pushing South in droves and deep V\u2019s.\u00a0 For many sportsmen, this is the best time of our Northern Michigan year.<\/p>\n
Camouflage and blaze orange and fleece and tall boots are the dress of the day.\u00a0 You can hardly walk into a grocery store or tavern without finding folks garbed for the harvest.<\/p>\n
The upland season is on its last legs.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a strange and difficult season.\u00a0 It\u2019s been feast and famine.\u00a0 Woodcock made up the hours afield but moved through in quick migrations.\u00a0 They\u2019re all but gone these days.\u00a0 I gave up, before the season even began, trying to make predictions.\u00a0 There was and still is so much food in the woods for the grouse.\u00a0 Every sort of berry and nut blossomed thickly this season.\u00a0 There are so many acorns in our area that bow hunters are struggling to get deer to the bait pile.\u00a0 The birds had unlimited places to eat and, with a late leaf drop, unlimited places to seek cover.\u00a0 Grouse had it made.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s changing some now.\u00a0 As the leaves continue to thin and the food starts to shrink, grouse will begin again to converge on the best covers and the last fruits.\u00a0 But with beat up bird dogs, wary from blackberry cuts and thornapple stabs, I\u2019m ready to get to the bow hunting woods.\u00a0 It\u2019s been just lately that the bucks are scraping the ground and angrily rubbing the aspen with swollen necks.\u00a0 The rut is getting started.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for me to shift with the change and let the grouse rest.<\/p>\n
Trout fishing is changing too.\u00a0 Brook trout have disappeared.\u00a0 But big browns are aggressively swiping at flies paused and poised for a killing attack.\u00a0 Lots of days on the River, you won\u2019t move a fish.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t a numbers game unless you measure success by one fish of inches and pounds.\u00a0 Be it in the woods or in the waters, November is time to seek a personal trophy.<\/p>\n
Stop in the shop to see the boys\u2014I\u2019ll be in the woods.<\/p>\n
Take care,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
October 31, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. We\u2019re moving into the latest pages of Fall.\u00a0 As October rolls into November the leaves curl on the ground and frosty mornings give way to occasional smatterings of snow.\u00a0 The deer are healthy and strong and the grouse are all full fanned … 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":[200,152,84,149,166,5,150],"tags":[169,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}