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<\/a>But water levels dropped all week and clarity just continued to improve since opening day. Unfortunately, a long, drawn out rain event brought streamflows back up, but we\u2019re crossing our fingers for the second week of trout season.\u00a0 We have some bugs and some fish rising in most reaches of our rivers.\u00a0 We did not see the torrential downpour that smacked Southern Michigan.<\/p>\nI\u2019m hoping for good dry fly angling as much as anyone. It\u2019s been a winter too long since I\u2019ve fooled a thickly muscled trout on the surface.\u00a0 Streamer fishing will be good, but for me there\u2019s nothing quite like tricking a hook-jawed, tattered finned, wise old brown trout at his own game.<\/p>\n I can no longer wait to visit the soft, sand accesses on the Au Sable. And to see how the River has changed and how it is still the same.<\/p>\n To sit on a mossy log and wait for a trout to rise is heaven.\u00a0 Those places are like old friends to me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve known them longer than most of my good pals and longer than my wife or my child.\u00a0 I knew them<\/p>\n when my bones weren\u2019t so sore and when my eyes still worked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Every season is more precious than the last. The river is ever There\u2019s a whole new season on the Au Sable that begins with your next footfall into the current.<\/p>\n Thanks and I\u2019ll see you on the River,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 3, 2019 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The opening week of trout fishing in Michigan is in the books. It was a tough one.\u00a0 We had some very warm days that pushed Hendricksons to the surface and had a few fish looking up. But a cold front bumped water temperatures back … 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":[199,148,164,155,84,7,166,5,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723"}],"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=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The forecast warmth should certainly kick the on dry fly fishing this week. And while water levels may make wading anglers sharpen their pencils about where to go, there is always river to wade in our area.\u00a0 The boat anglers should have a fine week.\u00a0 We have a guide available most days if you\u2019d like to get to the best opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/a> changing and so, too, is the community around it.\u00a0 Some old friends aren\u2019t going to make it this year.\u00a0 Their days astream have ended.\u00a0 But not mine.\u00a0 Not yet.\u00a0 And not yours.<\/p>\n