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<\/a>It\u2019s time to trout fish here in Northern Michigan. The shrinking snow will have the waters of the Manistee and Au Sable Rivers rising and the accesses will be much more passable than they were even a week ago.\u00a0 Rising water and warming temperatures should have trout on the bite.\u00a0 Streamers and nymphs will likely be the order of the day, but be wary of rising trout.\u00a0 I doubt you\u2019ll see one and I wouldn\u2019t recommend abandoning the wet techniques and tactics for the entire day, but there\u2019s something very cool about catching the first dry fly trout of the year.<\/p>\n
If you go, be ready for anything. Bring all of your streamers and nymphs.\u00a0 Conditions will certainly be dynamic.\u00a0 Be sure to have natural imitations in both small and larger sizes and be sure to have bright, attractor flies dressed in obnoxious furs and feathers.\u00a0 You\u2019ll know better what to tie on once you step streamside.\u00a0\u00a0 My rule is to try to match the color of the bottom of the river if you can see it.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t see it tie on either something very bright or very black.<\/p>\n
The shop will be closed on March 11, 12, and 13 in order to go to the Big Show in Warren Michigan. The Midwest Fly Fishing Show is one of the finest in the country and we\u2019ll be there with our biggest display to date.\u00a0 We\u2019ve emptied the shop and now that we\u2019re moving into our ninth season, we\u2019ve found all sorts of odds and ends that need to go.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have more great deals at the show then we\u2019ve ever had.\u00a0 There\u2019s stuff marked 60%, great deals on some beautiful used rods (like Winston\u2019s), and even some brand new Sage Rods for 50% off.\u00a0 Hope to see you there, but if I don\u2019t, I hope you\u2019re fishing.<\/p>\n
And then we\u2019ll be back, stronger than ever, for the greatest trout fishing season in a couple of years.<\/p>\n
I plan on being on the River more than I have been since Jack was born. He\u2019s in preschool now and I have more time and I\u2019m hungry.<\/p>\n
See you soon,<\/p>\n
Andy<\/p>\n
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March 10, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It\u2019s one of those years. Or, at least, so it seems.\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna see a lot of days in the fifties and even approaching sixty in the next ten days.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard of sandhill cranes in Southern Michigan and even a robin sighting.\u00a0 The … 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":[148,84,7,154,5,150,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oldausable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}