May 24, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     Was finally able to find some time to get out and do a guide trip this past week on my old riverboat.  Billy L...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Brook Trout, Brown Drakes, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Michigan Reports, River Reports

May 17, 2018   It’s Summer-like here in Northern Michigan.  We’ve had a fantastic string of eighty degree, sunny days here.  It warms the bones, the trout, the rivers, and the bugs.  We’ve lost a lot of our problematic high Spring water and with more seasonable temperatu...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Brook Trout, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports Tags: Dry Fly Fishing

May 10, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Things are shaping up for Northern Michigan trout fishing.  The rivers in Crawford County continue to lose water and are clearing nicely.  Hendricksons are hatching and the black caddis have exploded.  Fish are starting to take notice of the activity and are finally beginning to rise.  We’re still looking for the brook trout to get active, but until they do we’ve been finding some brown and rainbow trout.  The brooki...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Brook Trout, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Michigan Reports, River Reports Tags: fishing, brook, Water Conditions, Au Sable River Fishing Report

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The highest April snowfall totals in many Northern Michigan communities happened.  We hit records.  Big records.  So I guess congratulations are in order?  But it’s hard to shout out a woohoo!  We were all of us Michiganders primed with Spring Fever and then the awful came to visit.  But like a bad house-guest, it will leave sooner or later.

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Brook Trout, BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Tourism, Weather

April 4, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Fishy young man with Donnie Richards &nbs...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Michigan Reports, River Reports Tags: Streamer Fishing

March 27, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     By inches and nudges Spring is slowly creeping in.  We’re moving from highs in the thi...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Fly Tying, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Uncategorized, Weather Tags: Streamer Fishing

  Bob with Donnie finding trout   March 6, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I keep ...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Dry Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Streamer Fishing Tags: Michigan Fly Fishing Expo, trout season, Streamer Fishing

February 16, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Winter in Northern Michigan can be an affair of shivering and suffering in solitude.  Now, I don’t know about everyone else, but this winter is flying by for me.  I guess I was charging through it with my head down, but when I looked up we were well into February.  And the mornings were glowing with sunshine.  Or maybe I just am choosing to see the sunshine. Either way, these winter warm-ups ar...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Dry Fly Fishing, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Streamer Fishing

February 1, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Mess of Walleye   I had a beautiful winter break...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Ice Fishing, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports Tags: Rising Trout, Ice Fishing

January 23, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Last Year Memory   Man, I’ve be...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Ice Fishing, Michigan Winter Fishing Tags: Winter