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

    October 10, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We’ve continued with the Summer-like weather trend for the entire Fall so far and it’s been a tourism boon to ou...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Brook Trout, BWO, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports Tags: Woodcock Hunting, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Grouse Hunting, Streamer Fishing

August 31, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report The young Miss Craft with a beauty of a Brown Trout! The last ...

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

August 11, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Trout fishing on the streams of Northern Michigan is holding up very well so far this Summer.  Usually, the stream conditions deteriorate as the Summer rolls along.  The water gets low and clear and even, sometimes just a bit too warm for good fishing throughout the day. That just hasn’t really happened this year.  Trout like it cold, dark, and wet and this year we’ve had plenty of that weather.  The cool ni...

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

Donnie with a Hendrickson Fish May 4, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Trout season 2017 is well underway.  We saw th...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Brook Trout, BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Weather Tags: River Conditions, Hendrickson Hatch, Au Sable River, Dry Fly Fishing

  Nice fish Adam   April 13, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Here we...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Weather

April 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report We’ve just endured winter’s last stand here in Northern Michigan—I hope.  That cranky old ma...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Fly Tying, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing

 Guide Sean with a nice brown.   March 31, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The terrible thing about working in a fly shop is that when the w...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing, Uncategorized Tags: New Michigan Fishing License 2017

  Tim Riley   January 27, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I remember winters like th...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Blue Gills, Brook Trout, Brown Drakes, BWO, Fishing Tips, Fly Tying, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Uncategorized, Weather

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. The rains came and all is well in the Au Sable River Valley.  Perhaps the best aspect of life in Northern Michigan is in the weather changes.  That is, at least, when the changes are in your favor.  We’ve

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