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<\/a>out – you know, those little black critters that draw blood from your ears and nick you around your hat line.\u00a0 Mosquitos have to be close.\u00a0 But the misery that the biting insects bring also means that other, water-born bugs – the ones we and the trout like, are here now too.<\/p>\nHendricksons have exploded system wide along with little mahoganies and black caddis. The little olive stone flies are out We wait twelve months for this stuff and for about seven of those months we endure snow, ice, slush, freezing rain, and generally awful weather. It\u2019s here right now and we deserve it.\u00a0 Everything looks to be coming together.\u00a0 Even the rains in the forecast are relatively small events that should give us the cloud cover we need for good fishing.\u00a0 The rivers can handle some rain and the morels will love it.<\/p>\n My fishing this last week was ultimately promising. It wasn\u2019t riddled with big fish, though one client had a long brown trout wrap around a log and break off.\u00a0 You\u2019d think that was the best fish of the day, but For the record I love all fishing. If it\u2019s the best time of the year to catch bullheads on worms\u2014I\u2019m in.\u00a0 There is no wrong way to fish.\u00a0 It only gets better from here.<\/p>\n Thanks for tuning in I\u2019ll see you on the River,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Our river systems have blown up with insect life. The sand flies are out – you know, those little black critters that draw blood from your ears and nick you around your hat line.\u00a0 Mosquitos have to be close.\u00a0 But the misery that the biting insects bring … 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\/1742"}],"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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>along with the mattress thrashers, too.\u00a0 We went from hoping for one hatch and find ourselves, overnight, with at least five.<\/p>\n<\/a>it turned out that every brook trout rising in the pods was just as good.\u00a0 Maybe better.\u00a0 We waded to trout that poked their noses into our dry flies and we laughed every time one of those little jewels skated to the forceps.\u00a0 When we glided into the end day landing, neither of us knew how many we caught.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have a count clicker in the boat and no one cared.\u00a0 My guy simply knew it was the most trout he\u2019d ever caught.\u00a0 We both knew it was fun.<\/p>\n<\/a> Right tool right job.\u00a0 The only right way to fish is to take what the River gives.\u00a0 Right now, trout are rising under cloudy skies.<\/p>\n