{"id":1698,"date":"2019-04-03T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:02:34","slug":"april-4-2019-river-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/03\/april-4-2019-river-report\/","title":{"rendered":"April 4, 2019 River Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p>The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s April now. I don\u2019t know much, but I know that. That means that your two thousand and eighteen Michigan fishing license is no longer valid. As of March thirty-first, Michigan anglers need to hold a twenty nineteen sticker to legally ply the waters of our peninsulas and Great Lakes. I swiped my driver\u2019s license early this year and got current before the deadline. That\u2019s actually rare for me. Far too<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/community\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1710 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/17352137_1153608291431272_4810225079868748523_n-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"17352137_1153608291431272_4810225079868748523_n\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>often I forget to pull my tag in the flurry of new license sales and end up having to make a too long trip back to the shop before splashing around in April\u2019s new edition of the Au Sable.<\/p>\n<p>The slow Spring run-off continues on the Au Sable and Manistee. We\u2019ve gone through the \u201chooray it\u2019s going to be forty degrees\u201d days and are now hoping for fifties and sixties for high temperatures. The cool stuff has the rivers in great shape so far, but warmer times are coming. When we see those days, Spring Fever will swell in tandem with river levels. That should bring the inevitable high, dirty water we expect. And while we need to get past that roil for good dry fly angling, streamer fishing should be some of the best we see all year as the trout fry and sculpins hatch and wash into the currents.<\/p>\n<p>Streamer fishing has been fair so far with just a sprinkling of pretty good. Drab flies dressed in olive, copper, and black have produced most consistently, but when the water turns tobacco brown, bright flies with flashes of white, yellow, and chartreuse should be in your box and knotted to the end of your line.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been out a little but not quite enough. But I\u2019ve pushed through my taxes and listened to about enough evening news full of house fires and car wrecks and stumbling politicians. None of that exists on the River if you don\u2019t let it. Everything disappears out there and is washed downstream. I\u2019m ready for sunnier days. Those days on stream are worth the price of admission and invaluable to me.<\/p>\n<p>We all deserve another halcyon day and a mellower light with a Kingfisher sliding through the tree tops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/community\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1707 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20170428_133454-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"20170428_133454\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Swing by the shop if you get chance and we will fill you in on what trails and accesses are open and which streams are fishable.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also getting close to our first two events for the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/community\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Our Spring Pre-Opener Spring Cleaning Weekend is on for April 20th\u00a0&amp; 21st\u00a0and our 12th Annual Old AuSable Opener Party will be on Friday April 26th.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take care,<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It\u2019s April now. I don\u2019t know much, but I know that. That means that your two thousand and eighteen Michigan fishing license is no longer valid. As of March thirty-first, Michigan anglers need to hold a twenty nineteen sticker to legally ply the waters &#8230; <a title=\"April 4, 2019 River Report\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/03\/april-4-2019-river-report\/\" aria-label=\"More on April 4, 2019 River Report\">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":[199,148,84,7,154,166,5,150,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}