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<\/a>There is so much to be positive about. The weather is perfect. And I mean perfect. We\u2019re seeing a trend of sunny, dry, mid-seventy degree days punctuated by cool, fifty degree nights.\u00a0\u00a0 You can pull on your Old Au Sable hoody in the morning while you\u2019re drinking coffee on the deck or while sitting around the campfire at dusk. During the day you can strip down shorts and tee shirts.\u00a0\u00a0 And, at night, you get to pull a thick quilt up to your neck. It\u2019s just ideal. One more reason we\u2019re lucky to live in Northern Michigan.<\/p>\n Signs of Fall are all around us. While we\u2019re not seeing the color change just yet, there are salmon in the coastal streams and rivers and the brook trout are starting to show their deep red and orange spawning suits. If you go salmon fishing and hook into one of those freight trains, give me a shout and tell me all about it because I won\u2019t be there this year. It\u2019s a fun game to play, but it\u2019s hard to leave the quiet streams of Crawford and Kalkaska counties. Sticking to our rivers right now means turning you back on the crowds that salmon bring and it means angling for fish measured in inches rather than pounds, but it also means pulling up to empty parking spots and having, at least in thought, entire rivers to yourself. Perhaps nothing means Fall more than standing shin deep in a lonely river.<\/p>\n That might be a bit of a stretch . . . to me Fall is a package deal consisting of fishing, bird hunting, bow hunting for whitetails, fine weather and rainbowed ridges of color change.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve got a spectacular exclamation point at the beginning of it all this year. On September 27th<\/sup> we\u2019re set to see the annual harvest moon\u2014the first full moon of Fall. It\u2019s even better this year. We have a perfecta of fantastic that evening. Not only is it the harvest moon, it is a Supermoon\u2014the time when the moon is closest the Earth and enormous. To make it better, the moon will rise just after seven and while reflecting the sun, should be a red moon\u2014a Blood Moon. That would be amazing enough, but at 9 p.m. a total lunar eclipse will begin. This is an event that won\u2019t be seen again until the year 2033.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know about you but I\u2019ll be out there.<\/p>\n Enjoy a fine week and stop by if you get a chance,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 23, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. Welcome to the official beginning of Fall! Hands down my favorite time of the year. There is so much to be positive about. The weather is perfect. And I mean perfect. We\u2019re seeing a trend of sunny, dry, mid-seventy degree days punctuated by cool, … 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":[203,84,7,5,147,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"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=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n