The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
The rains keep falling. The rivers rise.\u00a0 The hatches keep moving along.<\/p>\n
Some reaches of river have become too high and clouded to effectively fish. It can be stressful for the anglers that have planned a fishing adventure some twelve months ago and have arrived to high, cold water.\u00a0 Some favorite reaches of the river are un-wadable and some stretches are unfishable even from a boat.<\/p>\n
Conditions like these can even make the guides scratch their heads. But we have two great river systems here and, at the Old Au Sable we have many of the best guides in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 Every morning the boys rally over breakfast at the Grayling Restaurant and hash out the texts and reports from all corners of the county and figure out the day\u2019s possibilities over eggs over medium and hash browns and a smoked pork chop.<\/p>\n
By the last bread crust, yolk mopping the game plan is in place. If the conditions won\u2019t let us go – we don\u2019t.\u00a0 If we can slip in some fishing between storms – we do.\u00a0 It\u2019s rare we don\u2019t have a window to exploit.\u00a0 Lots of places in Michigan have fine trout streams.\u00a0 We have great trout rivers.<\/p>\n
I had the most relaxing day in the midst of all this head scratching. I put aside the where to when to and if you can go head voices and just went where the water was fishable.\u00a0 And as luck had it, where the drakes were happening – eally happening.\u00a0 The flies were sort of expected but the fishing was surprising.\u00a0 It\u2019s always worth going.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had drakes right through the high, difficult to wade waters and we\u2019ve had drakes on some of the too cold, too rainy days. It certainly hasn\u2019t been a perfect June, but those who work hard occasionally persevere.<\/p>\n
The coming days will continue to show us soaking rains and foul weather will throw us curve balls, but we\u2019ll lean on the rivers that hold together.\u00a0\u00a0 And we\u2019ll float on top of the rivers that rise.<\/p>\n
Brown drakes should be everywhere over the coming days and we\u2019ve already started to see ISO\u2019s. It\u2019s June and you just have to go in June.<\/p>\n
Have fun out there.<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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