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<\/a><\/p>\nIt can be difficult for the non-fly angler to understand what drives that sort of travel to the sandy, jack pine plains of Northern Michigan.\u00a0 But any angler can understand the affliction.\u00a0 All fish-bitten fishermen would travel as far as their dollars would take them to experience world class angling.\u00a0 And while our fishing may not be world class every day, it is sometimes and some of those days are just in front of us. The Hex hatch is system wide on the Au Sable River right now.\u00a0 I\u2019d guess we\u2019re going to be fishing these waters until the next report.\u00a0 The South Branch may only have a few days left in the tank, but the mainstream with its thigh-deep muck banks should hold up for a good while.\u00a0 Once they thin there, the Manistee River should pick up the slack.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen just a few on that stream, but their appearance in those currents is imminent.<\/p>\n It\u2019s here.\u00a0 The glory.\u00a0 The reward of suffering long winters.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ll be out.\u00a0 I hope you hear my fish jump.\u00a0 I hope I hear yours.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll see you on the river,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report June 24, 2015 It\u2019s the end of June and there\u2019s only one word that fly fishermen want to hear\u2014Hex.\u00a0 The long fabled, Michigan Hexagenia Limbata hatch is the stuff of legend.\u00a0 Over the years, legions of fly anglers worldwide have come to our beloved Crawford County to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7,5,68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Most of the phone calls I answer at the shop ask if it\u2019s worth going fishing.\u00a0 I can tell you that it\u2019s rarely perfect when you think it will be and it\u2019s always better than staying home and mowing the lawn.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a big window here.\u00a0 So, I\u2019d say just go when you can.\u00a0 The best night I had last week was on the coldest evening we\u2019ve this June.\u00a0 My best fish was a whopper that was angry and heavy and held on the bottom before he launched into the air and landed fat and flat and loud on the water.<\/p>\n