July 29, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The first hot spell of Summer has come and gone. We all know that trout like their environs cold and wet and in late July and August those conditions can be ...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports, Uncategorized

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report July 23, 2015 Man the Summer moves quickly. Trout season opened three months  ago . . . seems like last week to me. And now here we are at the end of July, hos...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports, Tourism

July 15, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I’ll tell you what, if anyone thinks that a bluegill isn’t an absolutely fine fish, I’ll have to poke them in the eye.  In the group you’ve got bluegill, redear sunfish, green sunfish, longear sunfish, rockbass, and pumpkinseeds.  It’s an all-star line-up of fish that turn sideways to the pull, fight hard and just simply bite.  They are a young fisherman’s rite of passage and an older angler’s fountain of yo...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports, Tourism

July 7, 2015 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s Summer here in Michigan.  The season here is the epitome of Summertime.  It’s cook outs and noodle salad and it’s swimming in the lake and it’s camp fires and s’mores.  It’s about kids twirling sparklers and chasing fireflies.  And, of course, for us it’s fishing on placid lakes and jeweled streams.  It’s a time best served by spending it with friends and family.  When the rest of the world watches ...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports, Tourism

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report July 1, 2015 What a Hex season it’s been.  Such a crazy time on the Au Sable.  The big flies come out by the many thousands and create an audible hum of flapping insect wings at dark and the big trout slip out of their log jams and sensibilities and succumb to an armada of anglers armed with row boats and riverboats. And well equipped anglers dangle fine feathered offerings to those lunkers.

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, River Reports, Tourism