The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.<\/p>\n
The River just keeps on flowing unconcerned about what we\u2019re doing and unconcerned with what we want to happen.<\/p>\n
Hendricksons have largely moved through the system, but I surely wouldn\u2019t go to the river without some parachutes and I\u2019d be looking for Hendrickson spinners at dusk.\u00a0 We\u2019re moving toward Sulphurs and popcorn caddis.\u00a0 And we\u2019re especially moving toward the time of the evening rise.<\/p>\n
As much as the afternoon, Early Spring fishing was a disappointment, we are about to wade into the best of what the Au Sable has to offer.\u00a0 Although we all love brook trout, we are, in truth, a brown trout, hatch matching stream.\u00a0 Those browns stew under log jams and undercut banks and in the bottom of deep holes until the evening light turns orange and begins to fail.\u00a0 Then they move to feeding lanes and bubble lines and look to the surface in June for mayflies that fall en masse. \u00a0When it happens, it is something special.<\/p>\n
Plenty of anglers that come here never really get it.\u00a0 They catch a few little ones in the high sunlight and try to push a nymph deep into runs that would hold big fish in Western streams.\u00a0 But those fish aren\u2019t there in the Michigan Summer. Not on our Rivers.\u00a0 Our best browns live in the tangles that no underwater fly can penetrate.\u00a0 We need conditions to line up perfectly for wise, old trout to make the mistakes that give us a chance for success.<\/p>\n
Some folks that are lucky enough and\/or have tried enough get to see it.\u00a0 Those fishermen hunt it year after year, season over season, and chase the dragon past one failed hatch over the next.\u00a0 I do.\u00a0 It can change lives.\u00a0 Ruin potential.\u00a0 But it\u2019s irreplaceable.\u00a0 Special.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s about to be thirty days of try.<\/p>\n
The River is out of its banks right now. \u00a0Dirty.\u00a0 But clearing every day.\u00a0 And there\u2019s always, always some water to fish around here.<\/p>\n
The shop is open and a little bit of a mess but no more so than the rest the world.\u00a0 So stop on by.\u00a0 A few of our guides are not going to run with Covid concerns, but out core group is running.\u00a0 And eager.\u00a0 Please double check your booked trips with the shop.<\/p>\n
See you soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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