March 14, 2020<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
You all know.\u00a0 So much has changed in the hours since the last report.\u00a0 Last week I was talking about ice cream and sunshine and Springtime, and getting ready for the fly fishing show.\u00a0 Now our Country is all but shut down in the wake of a worldwide pandemic.<\/p>\n
In a flash we went from excitedly loading the fly shop into a truck and thinking about big city restaurants, to being slack jawed and stunned and searching stores for toilet paper and hand sanitizer (which I still don\u2019t quite understand). Closing the Midwest Fly Fishing Show, perhaps the greatest Fly Fishing event in the Country, was a surprising blow to our relatively small community of anglers.\u00a0 But then professional sports and even the NCAA March Madness Tournament shut down.\u00a0 Things got real fast.\u00a0 And now the public schools are closed for weeks as our State and the nation try to find stable footing.<\/p>\n
The virus and the reaction to it has slapped me with a fistful of perspective.\u00a0 Guessing that\u2019s true for most.\u00a0 There\u2019s a great levelling effect taking place.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t care about economic, political, or social divides.\u00a0 Our family\u2019s and our neighbor\u2019s health and safety and well-being are all that matter.<\/p>\n
It is scary and stressful.\u00a0 But in the 21 years since I started working in the Fly Fishing world, we\u2019ve seen war, and unbridled terrorism, and economic collapse and every time we\u2019ve risen from the murky waters.\u00a0 The only choice is to stand together and do it again.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll weather the toughest times as usual\u2014next to a river.\u00a0 The noisy silence of moving water distracts and heals.\u00a0 Even without knowing it, many of us became river fishers because this is so.<\/p>\n
Fishing is largely a solitary pursuit.\u00a0 River and woods time is a perfect remedy for this problem.\u00a0 Social distancing is exactly the point.\u00a0 Seek wilderness.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be doing our part at the Old AuSable to help and be here when you need us.\u00a0 Where to and how to is what we do.\u00a0 Call or write or stop by but forgive us if we don\u2019t shake hands.<\/p>\n
We are also going to eliminate any one day sales or events.\u00a0 Our Cabin Fever Day will be extended into a nine day event starting April 3rd<\/sup> through the 11th<\/sup>.\u00a0 We are going to spread our events out to include only the smallest groups and we will offer a virtual option as well.\u00a0 Our annual Show SALE starts now.\u00a0\u00a0 No need for a doorbuster event.\u00a0 We have lots of great gear and will run our sale right through the Opening Day of Trout Season.<\/p>\n And don\u2019t forget about our Spring Guide Special.\u00a0 We\u2019re offering a streamer\/nymph trip for just $295.\u00a0 This trip is designed to be a go get \u2018em excursion that looks just like trips the guides do when we fish with each other.\u00a0 The boat will be on the best water at the best time of the day.\u00a0 We can make this happen regardless of your experience level.\u00a0 Call for details\u2014there\u2019s a lot of value here.<\/p>\n Spring fishing has been good and it\u2019s about to be great this year.\u00a0 And with school cancelled, it looks like Jack and I will be fishing a bunch.\u00a0 No sports on.\u00a0 I guess we\u2019ll have to be outside, and read, and exercise.\u00a0 And all of that away from crowds.\u00a0 Damnit!<\/p>\n I\u2019m wishing you all the best.\u00a0 Thank you for your support.\u00a0 Take care of yourselves.<\/p>\n Go Fishing!<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 14, 2020 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report You all know.\u00a0 So much has changed in the hours since the last report.\u00a0 Last week I was talking about ice cream and sunshine and Springtime, and getting ready for the fly fishing show.\u00a0 Now our Country is all but shut down in the … 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":[198,7,166,5,68,158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}