April 23, 2020 OPENING DAY The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report It’s nearly impossible to believe that this is already the Opening Week of trout season.  Yet, it feels like a long time coming. Home for many weeks during this long, lingering early-Spring, life has ebbed between accomplishment and adventure and wasted time and boredom.  I have finished house projects, read books, tied flies, caught fish, and even tagged a great turkey.  All of that with my b...

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

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Ponds are alive with croaks and creaks and peepers are peeping. Fish are moving around the rivers and into the shallow bays and shelves on area lakes. The songbirds are cheerfully back on sunshine mornings. An occasional trout is eating an occasional fly from the surface of our constantly moving Rivers. That’s right, we’ve seen the first fish of the season rise. Spring is here. The black stoneflies have been around for many weeks and ...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Blue Gills, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Weather

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I’ve been dragging my feet. It’s been hard to know what to say or what to advise—go outside stay inside.  You know that everything has been changing every day.  But, while we’re clearly not on any semblance of stable ground yet, I’m beginning to find a stride here in Northern Michigan. I’d been tottering around the house for too long.  And for me that means, as regular listeners know, spending tons of time organizing my eve...

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