The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one curve ball after another when Mother Nature pitches November weather.\u00a0 Hunting bucks in the Michigan rifle season is the big leagues.\u00a0 So far this year, I\u2019m batting below the Mendoza line, but it\u2019s not over yet and I\u2019ll keep stepping up to the plate.\u00a0 Two years ago, I didn\u2019t connect with a rack until late into muzzleloader season.\u00a0 You\u2019d better believe, that when the deer I\u2019m looking for slips up and steps out, that I\u2019ll take my swing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sitting deerless but easy.\u00a0 Jack harvested a perfect doe and put venison in the coffers.\u00a0 When we found the hair and leaves kicked up in the shooting lane, he smiled wide and demanded a high five.\u00a0 I was concerned that he was too young to really understand what it meant to take a deer, but when Grandpa found it and Jack caught up, he was duly excited and proud and appropriately reverent.\u00a0 We all were.\u00a0 A first deer is a special moment.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s excited for the chops and jerky and sausage – little provider.\u00a0 He wants us to share.<\/p>\n
Grandpa was hoping Jack\u2019s first deer to be with him. \u00a0So much so that, on opening morning, when my Dad saw the best deer on the property sneak through the lane, he flubbed it because he was trying to get his grandson on a spike and a small six that were in the boy\u2019s scope.\u00a0 None of it worked out and all the bucks slipped off into the swamp.<\/p>\n
In the evening, my son sat with me.\u00a0 One lone, old doe showed up and stayed out on the edge of Jack\u2019s range before she disappeared.\u00a0 Nearly an hour later that deer came back; still a stretch too far away until luck intervened.\u00a0 The doe came ten yards closer straight toward the blind, stopped and looked directly at us.\u00a0 We were a bit noisy\u2014busted!\u00a0 And then, more steps closer and another pause and look, and again, and again, and again until the deer was only thirty yards away.\u00a0 Those twenty minutes, with the sights on her ticked small and slow.<\/p>\n
And then she turned hinky\u2014tail twitching and ready to run.\u00a0 I said, \u201cShoot.\u201d\u00a0 Jack asked, \u201cNow?\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cNow.\u201d<\/p>\n
The moment was meant for us.<\/p>\n
Please take care and be safe friends and we\u2019ll see you before you know it.<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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