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<\/a>Conditions are perfect for a streamer fishing float trip on the Au Sable or Manistee River. The water is up and stained and angling has been good most days.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s going one more time this year or fitting in a fly fishing brown trout excursion that you just couldn\u2019t cram in between deer hunting and steelhead fishing, a fine window exists now to slide into our rivers.<\/p>\nWith the swollen flows and darker water, your fly selection can run the gamut. I would stick to large, articulated selections fished with a slower strip\/pause or even jigging retrieve now that slightly cooler water temperatures have arrived.\u00a0 And I would start with flies that have been crafted to include white, yellow, or even chartreuse. It feels like November in the woods and the board is still set to play many of those games. Time remains to climb into a tree stand or to bounce down the lonely road to the grouse covers.\u00a0 On those travels keep the ditches on your radar.\u00a0 There\u2019s a secret revealed there right now.\u00a0 Watch for the tell-tale tall, yellowed, feathery fronds of wild asparagus.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot around and now is the time to find it and mark your foraging spot for Spring.<\/p>\n I hope to see you soon,<\/p>\n Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 17, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The mild December continues and, while I\u2019m still hoping for a white Christmas, the reality is that old man winter is limping along and the big chill likely won\u2019t arrive until January. So go ahead and spool up the new line on the ice … 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":[203,148,84,7,5,150,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00a0 There are few things better in fishing than watching a visible bait glide though the water and then disappear in the swirl of yellow sided violence that is a brown trout attack.\u00a0 If the bright colors don\u2019t work, don\u2019t mess around\u2014tie on black and leave it knotted there for the rest of the winter.<\/p>\n<\/a> David Ruimveld will be visiting the Old Au Sable on Saturday December 19th<\/sup> for a meet the artist event.\u00a0 David is a Michigan artist that has painted beautiful sporting wildlife images for over a quarter of a century.\u00a0 He will be crafting an original painting at the open house that will be given away to one lucky art lover that stops by to register.\u00a0 This is an event not to be missed.<\/p>\n