{"id":2131,"date":"2022-06-24T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2022-06-24T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:25:43","slug":"river-report-june-24-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/river-report-june-24-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report June 24, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s been a wild ride on the hatch match evening fishing train.  Most anglers were having trouble staying in the heat of the Hex Hatch.  Drastic temperature changes have made angling unpredictable.  We\u2019ve had air temperatures swing nearly fifty degrees in a twenty-four-hour period, and that made figuring out spinner falls nearly impossible.  Worse, the water temperatures were following a similar path; we\u2019ve <\/a>seen seventy-four degrees slide into the fifties in the same one-day time frame.  I couldn\u2019t keep up and neither could most folks, or bugs, or trout.
The lake bugs blew up at the same time as Alcona, in mid-June, and then the two ponds (the one in town and Mio Pond) hatched and all of the early South Branch spots happened.  I seemed right on pace.  Then town paused.  And the South paused. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mio kept rolling and still is but every boy with a boat was piled in that water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It used to be easier.  Or so my weary memory tells me so.
It\u2019s about to be again.  We will have Hex system wide by you hear this report.  I guarantee, I think, I hope . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conditions are correct now and the weather is seemingly cooperating to make the last days of June loaded with Au Sable legends of the Hex.   There\u2019s a time every year when things just have to happen – the length of day coupled with appropriate warmth converge to write the tale.  That time is now. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t imagine a time better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s written in hieroglyphs somewhere that Hex happen during the last week of June.  Like, a cavemen carved it into rock.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember one old, World War Two Vet that stormed Normandy (Harry) coming every year and trying to take one more float into the Chicago Club to relive his best fishing story.  We tried for three years but his health wouldn\u2019t allow it, though he spent hours in the shop telling the tale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short story – he got a thirty incher, dead on a board, at the mouth of the South and lost Ma Deeter\u2019s fishing contest by a half inch – the prize was a riverboat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have a place to be this week, but if it\u2019s not here, it\u2019s the wrong place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

See you soon!
Andy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS Jerry Regan will be on the front porch tomorrow (Saturday) tying his famous Hex bugs, please stop by. We’ll have a bit of food & drink too. From 12 noon to ??? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a wild ride on the hatch match evening fishing train.  Most anglers were having trouble staying in the heat of the Hex Hatch.  Drastic temperature changes have made angling unpredictable.  We\u2019ve had air temperatures swing nearly fifty degrees in a twenty-four-hour period, and that made figuring out spinner falls nearly impossible.  Worse, the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}