{"id":2139,"date":"2022-08-04T17:08:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:09:11","slug":"river-report-august-1-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/river-report-august-1-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report August 1, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Where has the Summer gone!?  It won\u2019t be long and kids will be filing back into schoolyards.

<\/a><\/a><\/a>My clan has been camping a lot.  We\u2019re weekly bivouacked in the tent or some lakeside, summer camp style cabin.  Jack has learned to swim this Summer.  He\u2019s made a lot of one-day campground friends.  It\u2019s amazing how quickly and easily kids graft to each other.  There\u2019s a lesson in there.  Kids tend to focus on what they have in common.  And swimming is enough.

I\u2019m missing the River.  I\u2019ve not spent this much time away from her since we were first introduced.  Back then, we made friends fast too.  But like with anything, absence makes the love stark.

I\u2019ll see her soon.

Mornings are the best times in the Summer on the Au Sable.  Landings are empty then and the fishing is straight forward.  In May and June the pace is hectic here.  Crowds are chasing hatches that only last for days so urgency is integral. 

Summer is different.  Lonely mornings, wading in the quiet with a Heron settling near in the shallow sand, is the standard.

It\u2019s really perfect for a parent.  Everyone has stayed up late cooking smore\u2019s by the campfire and are sleeping into bird-chirping mornings and waves lapping.  They\u2019re tired from a full day being in water.  So, on the River, at dawn you have all the space to yourself. 

Usually, the trout rise.  The trout aren\u2019t big but it\u2019s not a wrestling match we\u2019re after, anyway.  Delicate presentations with slight, little wands are the right tool for the job.  This is three weight territ<\/a><\/a><\/a>ory.

It\u2019s tricos and olives every morning.  They are so reliable.  If you get to the water too early, you\u2019ll be knotting some rubber-tied bug to your too heavy leader and finishing the knot right when brook trout start to dimple the surface.

You\u2019ll have to cut it all off and get real small with your bugs.  Old eyes don\u2019t care much for tricos and 7X tippet, but that\u2019s the ante.  In many ways, the best trico fishermen on the River are the best anglers the Au Sable sees all season.

You gotta do a lot of stuff right with a dry fly to fool an Au Sable trout.

I wish you all the best,
Andy<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where has the Summer gone!?  It won\u2019t be long and kids will be filing back into schoolyards. My clan has been camping a lot.  We\u2019re weekly bivouacked in the tent or some lakeside, summer camp style cabin.  Jack has learned to swim this Summer.  He\u2019s made a lot of one-day campground friends.  It\u2019s amazing how … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,156,148,159,164,155,84,7,160,154,161,162,166,5,68,163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}