The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
The fishing since the last report on the Au Sable has been surprising. The hatches came off as predicted but with the unprecedented cold and high stream conditions, good catching was improbable.\u00a0 We expected tough angling, but what we got was amazing.<\/p>\n
High water continued to plague the river systems and wading was nearly impossible. But the boats experienced some of the best rise activity that we\u2019ve seen since I planted myself here nearly twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
This has been a tough year to understand. Continued high water has been a problem.\u00a0 Water temperatures a nightmare.<\/p>\n
Every ten days or so the rivers just start to get into shape and we have a couple of days where fish get to rising and then we get inches of rain followed by an enormous water temperature drop that shuts it all down. What it amounts to, in the end, is that we\u2019ve had a fantastic run of some of the best fishing we\u2019ve ever had here.\u00a0 Only to be crippled again by impossible conditions.<\/p>\n
The hatches last for about a week or so before the river gives up the next wave of bugs. It\u2019s rare for an angler here that fishes every day to get the best out of every rise.\u00a0 But this year we have.\u00a0 In the end that has tallied into some fantastic fishing for big trout during every hatch cycle.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve personally been witnessed truly nice trout rising to even the traditionally least important emergences or spinnerfalls.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s strange. I want to call this the worst May and June we\u2019ve ever been a party to here.\u00a0 We\u2019ve struggled some days to have any real fishing at all.\u00a0 Small fish have been nearly none existent, so catch rates are down.\u00a0 But considering the facts, this has been the best big fish daytime angling (for boats mostly) that I\u2019ve ever seen.\u00a0 This is truly an odd and special year.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s yesterday. In front of us we still have brown drakes to come on the Manistee and on Au Sable stretches as well as ISO\u2019s everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0 Hex have blown up on local lakes and rivers are coming around.\u00a0 The glory bugs should peak by the next report.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n
Should be really good for a while. Looking forward to July.<\/p>\n
See you all soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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