The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
This has been the finest August I can remember – cool nights and warm days. Michigan has the best weather in the country right now.\u00a0 And fishing is, well, really pretty good for late Summer.\u00a0 Water temperatures and flows are solid, so daytime angling is alright.\u00a0 Tricos and olives are hatching every morning with young trout taking notice and we\u2019re picking up some fish throughout the rest of the daylight hours.<\/p>\n
You should be able to put a dozen fish in the boat if you\u2019re skilled and then maybe hang up with a big one after dark on a frog or mouse pattern. That\u2019s about all we can ask for from our rivers even on the average days of May.\u00a0 The trout are smaller now and we\u2019re not hatch match fishing after dark, but it\u2019s still a fun day on the water.\u00a0 Best of all, there\u2019s almost no other anglers here now.<\/p>\n
The South Branch is the best of fishing on the Au Sable system, but the North Branch is showing meddle on the best trico mornings. The Manistee is running cold and clear and the fish are looking.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need the longest cast you can muster to hook up there.\u00a0 Twenty feet isn\u2019t going to cut it.<\/p>\n
You can always mouse. Night fishing is simply the best way to put a rod bending fish in the boat.<\/p>\n
Start thinking about our late Fall Streamer Days. This year we\u2019ll host our annual event November 1st<\/sup>, 2nd<\/sup>, and 3rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great time with fine folks and includes lodging, a couple of meals per day, and two days streamer fishing that will have you pitching flies to big trout until your arm falls off.\u00a0 The weekend is full of good times, good food, and fat trout.<\/p>\n Book a guide trip this Fall. Trips start at $300, and there\u2019s nothing quite like spawning colored brook trout in a backdrop of changing leaves.<\/p>\n The Old Au Sable Fly Shop is offering some great specials on gear on our unbelievable Labor Day weekend sale, so swing by and pick something up that you want and, just maybe, might need. All of the Fall and winter clothing is in stock now.\u00a0 It\u2019s beautiful stuff.<\/p>\n If nothing else, you need to stop by and see how I re-arranged the shop. It\u2019s been a slow Summer for us and boredom got me moving the furniture.\u00a0 I\u2019m loving it.<\/p>\n Hope to see you soon!<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report This has been the finest August I can remember – cool nights and warm days. Michigan has the best weather in the country right now.\u00a0 And fishing is, well, really pretty good for late Summer.\u00a0 Water temperatures and flows are solid, so daytime angling is alright.\u00a0 Tricos … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,148,164,155,84,7,160,182,166,5,150,68,163,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}