April 23, 2020<\/p>\n
OPENING DAY<\/p>\n
The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nearly impossible to believe that this is already the Opening Week of trout season.\u00a0 Yet, it feels like a long time coming.<\/p>\n
Home for many weeks during this long, lingering early-Spring, life has ebbed between accomplishment and adventure and wasted time and boredom.\u00a0 I have finished house projects, read books, tied flies, caught fish, and even tagged a great turkey.\u00a0 All of that with my boy Jack on my heels.\u00a0 We\u2019ve made some fantastic memories; nearly all of them on the nicest days of the finest Spring Northern Michigan has witnessed in years.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019ve also played more games of Monopoly to fruition than I ever have in my entire life\u2014most in my pajamas after waking up to another new blanket of snow.\u00a0 I have learned exactly why they\u2019re called \u201cbored\u201d games.\u00a0 They are built for foul weather days.<\/p>\n
And I have become completely fatigued with focusing on screens.\u00a0 I may never watch Netflix again or even glance at social media.\u00a0 I\u2019ve stared at that car wreck long enough to know I don\u2019t want to see anymore.<\/p>\n
Plus, I don\u2019t live in the woods to look at screens.<\/p>\n
So on to the next, great, outdoor adventure.\u00a0 The reason I live here\u2014trout fishing.\u00a0 And that, the finest hatch match dry fly angling game in the world.\u00a0 I\u2019m not talking about giant, dumb fish rising all day long to anything that floats overhead.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking about a mystery; chasing down the where and when bugs will appear and in which corner a fine, wild trout will rise.\u00a0 It is a game that is predictable enough to make you like your chances, but capricious enough to generally beat even the most knowledgeable.<\/p>\n
When you get started, and get it right, you can feel like a trout oracle\u2014a trout whisperer.\u00a0 And you\u2019ll probably take a picture of every fish you catch just like it was your first one or your best one.\u00a0 But once you\u2019ve done it for a long time, you understand that all those \u201cskills\u201d you\u2019ve built and all that time on the water just helps you take advantage when luck ambles along.\u00a0 You are a small part of the picture.<\/p>\n
Hendricksons are on the water and the River keeps moving.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be on it.<\/p>\n
Take care out there,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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