The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
Fall color is upon us.\u00a0 We\u2019re getting close to peak change in Northern Michigan.\u00a0 This is easily my favorite season of the year.\u00a0 Splashes of red and orange and gold pop against evergreen ridges.\u00a0 And over every rise and in buried in every swale, drumming grouse and whistling woodcock and white-tailed deer hunker down.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hunting season and fishing season still, and the two merge together to make the Au Sable river valley a wonderland for outdoors folk.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes for possible conundrums.\u00a0 Should I fish or hunt?\u00a0 Or try to do both every day?\u00a0 But it\u2019s simple really: go hunting when it\u2019s dry and go fishing when it\u2019s wet.\u00a0 What terrible problems we have.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot of freedom up here, in the North woods.\u00a0 When I moved here years ago, I did it all because of the crystal clean rivers and to try to catch trout and to become soaked in the legend and lore of the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.\u00a0 But what I fell in love with even more is the enormous amount of state lands and river accesses.\u00a0 You can go nearly everywhere and that freedom is unmatched in much of the world.<\/p>\n
There is no lock-step answer to how to spend a Fall morning or afternoon.\u00a0 You simply do whatever you want.\u00a0 Go in whichever direction pulls your heart strings on any given day.\u00a0 Of course, a sad sack droopy-eyed dog watching you put a fishing rod together can tug your choice toward a finer distraction.\u00a0 We own these bird dogs to watch them ply their trade for only about eight weeks a year.<\/p>\n
But if it\u2019s pouring rain, well then too bad puppy, it\u2019s time to pull on rubber pants and go catch trout.\u00a0 Trout fishing is hard here.\u00a0 And it\u2019s especially finicky in the Fall.\u00a0 We always depend on conditions, but now we are also trying to, daily, figure out where the trout are in their annual spawning ritual.\u00a0 It can be spectacular, but even the best angler can put up a bagel on the day.\u00a0 Stick with wet flies and streamers from now on unless you see fish rising to olives or flying ants.\u00a0 Do that and you\u2019ll be giving your best effort, knee deep, in a beautiful river with a rainbowed background.<\/p>\n
Good Luck out there,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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