The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been dragging my feet. It\u2019s been hard to know what to say or what to advise\u2014go outside stay inside.\u00a0 You know that everything has been changing every day.\u00a0 But, while we\u2019re clearly not on any semblance of stable ground yet, I\u2019m beginning to find a stride here in Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d been tottering around the house for too long.\u00a0 And for me that means, as regular listeners know, spending tons of time organizing my everlasting, horrible mess of a garage.\u00a0 That time alone, gathering unfinished and potential projects onto shelves and into cubby holes, has afforded me time to evaluate just what in the hell was I thinking.\u00a0 When did I think I\u2019d have time to it all.<\/p>\n
I have everything I need to build bird houses and feeders, raised garden beds, dog houses, and wood sheds.\u00a0 There\u2019s the river trapping gear, and the recurve and long bows I don\u2019t shoot enough, and even everything a person needs to make wooden musky lures.\u00a0 And so, so much more.\u00a0 For crying out loud, just when was all of this going to happen?<\/p>\n
Well, I guess it\u2019s now or never.<\/p>\n
Time is no longer an excuse.<\/p>\n
So I made a list of projects on the back of a bill envelop that I\u2019ll likely not pay anytime soon.\u00a0 I started writing in pretty big print but it got small quickly and ended up turning the corner at the bottom of the paper and wrapping up the side.\u00a0 Just like a little kid learning to spell.<\/p>\n
If I get it all done, that\u2019ll mean the pandemic is going to take longer than anyone expects.\u00a0 But don\u2019t worry that\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n
Poor Jack has to do it all with me.\u00a0 Kids got it tough; having to spend all that time with his Dad.\u00a0 Sure we break the work up with fishing trips and bike rides and walks in the woods looking at tracks and trying to guess what animals made which poop.\u00a0 So the projects are happening and a pile of time with my family is happening.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a little bit of light.<\/p>\n
Spring run-off on the river has peaked and everything is shaping up for an early dry fly season.\u00a0 \u00a0That hasn\u2019t happened in years. We should see hendricksons by mid-April.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve already had tons of black stones and olives are imminent.<\/p>\n
Watch the rules.\u00a0 You need a new fishing license as of April 1st<\/sup>. Tippy Dam closed.\u00a0 Guiding has been shut down by the DNR until at least April 13th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Recently, I\u2019ve heard that DNR is enforcing private boating party rules.\u00a0 No more than one person per boat unless your share the same home address–$500 fine.\u00a0 As far as I know as of March 30th<\/sup> that was just a rumor, but things change fast and plenty of rumors are being realized.<\/p>\n There was a rumor circulating that Grayling Hospital was being used as a coronavirus hub.\u00a0 Turns out that one is true.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a link to an article in the Crawford County Avalanche http:\/\/www.crawfordcountyavalanche.com\/news\/munson-healthcare-grayling-hospital-serving-east-region-inpatient-care-center-covid-19<\/a> .<\/p>\n We\u2019re being very safe here and on super lock down.\u00a0 Not quite the need a shower and to wash my soft pants bad, but there will be no Cabin Fever Days just yet bad.\u00a0 We need to get a little further down the road with this thing. \u00a0It\u2019s common sense and plus you know, the law.<\/p>\n For now stay home and rake the lawn and get those projects done.\u00a0 Hopefully, we\u2019ll be moving around a little more as the fish get rising.<\/p>\n Take extra care out there.<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I\u2019ve been dragging my feet. It\u2019s been hard to know what to say or what to advise\u2014go outside stay inside.\u00a0 You know that everything has been changing every day.\u00a0 But, while we\u2019re clearly not on any semblance of stable ground yet, I\u2019m beginning to find a stride … 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\/1816"}],"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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}