{"id":887,"date":"2015-11-19T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldausable.com\/wordpress\/?p=887"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:05:51","slug":"river-report-november-19-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/19\/river-report-november-19-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"River Report November 19, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 19, 2015<\/p>\n

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in the thick of November and things are really starting to heat up.<\/p>\n

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OAFS guide & pro staffer Al Borchers with a very solid 8 point<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The unseasonably warm weather made for a fairly slow beginning to the firearm, white-tailed deer season, but the recent cool down and weather shift has the critters out and on the prowl.\u00a0 Since the initial opening, weekend push has ended, deer sightings for me have tripled.\u00a0 And the woods are nearly devoid of hunters.\u00a0 I sat out the evening hunt on the fourth day of the season and took an extra-long drive.\u00a0 In a couple hours of bouncing down two tracks, I only saw a half dozen trucks parked in the woods.\u00a0 Do your best to get back into the ridges and thickets of Northern Michigan for one more try at a trophy.\u00a0 There are lots of deer left.<\/p>\n

The late Fall steelhead fishing is picking up pace as well.\u00a0 Now is the time to get on that program.\u00a0 One of our fishing guides, Donnie, has been finding a few and fooling them with flies on the swing.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be able to catch steelhead all winter long while fishing with indicators or bottom bouncing, but your best chance for success with an actively swung fly is from right now until the water temperature plummets into winter.<\/p>\n

Brown trout fishing on the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers is also\"20151117_154044\"<\/a> starting find its stride.\u00a0 The boys have been out slapping streamers against the banks and are find some nice fish.\u00a0 Jointed flies with some white or yellow have been moving a fair number of trout but never discount the value of black or olive.\u00a0 Those colors truly are the workhorses of streamer fishing.<\/p>\n

As the weather changes it\u2019s also time to start thinking about fly tying.\u00a0 Not only is crafting your own feathered fishing lures a great way to fill your fly box, it\u2019s a fine way to pass the winter.\u00a0 The first fly tying event at the shop will be a Mason-Griffith T.U. sponsored class and demonstration with expert fly designer Dennis Potter<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span>on December 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Then on every Saturday and Sunday beginning in January, we\u2019ll be hosting free tying classes, demonstrations, and open tying sessions throughout the rest of the winter.\u00a0 Stay tuned for details.<\/p>\n

Good Luck out there and don\u2019t forget make your Christmas list at the Old Au Sable.<\/p>\n

Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 19, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. We\u2019re in the thick of November and things are really starting to heat up. The unseasonably warm weather made for a fairly slow beginning to the firearm, white-tailed deer season, but the recent cool down and weather shift has the critters out and on … 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":[203,152,84,7,5,150,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}