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

January 11, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Jan 6th, -28 to start the day  ...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Fly Tying, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing Tags: Nymph Fishing, Fly Tying Class

January 1, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We are flat in the clutches of winter.  Ice fishing is rolling in most of the state.  We have safe ice conditions in on many of our local waters.  The West side of the state seems to have the most dubious conditions, however.  Heavy lake effect snow over there has insulated ice on lakes and the ice quality is tricky.  You’ll want to be very careful on water with lots of snow on it.  You can run into thick slush and...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Fishing Tips, Fly Tying, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports

    December 30,2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Here we go!  It’s ice fishing time now.  The winter blast is upon us.  We normally average about thirty degrees this time of year but the current ten day forecast is locked in single and low double digits.  The ice machine is cranking.  I can almost hear the ice popping and cracking.  I can certainly hear it when my deck pops under my feet on the morning trudge out to my wood pile. ...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Fishing Tips, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports Tags: Ice Fishing