December 20, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     We’re moving out of the in between time.  That time in December that when deer season is ending and grouse seas...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Holiday, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports

  December 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report     The first big winter blast is here and it looks like the freeze is upon us for the f...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Deer Hunting

November 21, 2017

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Tying, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Tourism

November 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Anglers are moving those brown trout around in fair numbers.  The bigger streamers seem to be garnering attention but smaller flies in the three inch range are the best bet—you simply target more fish.  The rivers are in much better shape than the deluge last week left them and the clarity is such that black, olive and copper are all great color choices.  Wading is still an issue but the strong of heart and weak of m...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Deer Hunting, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Steelhead, Streamer Fishing Tags: Michigan Deer Hunting Camp

October 7, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Gotta admit, I’m struggling out there in the Grouse and Woodcock covers so far this year, and a lot of my friends are as well.  ...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Brook Trout, Deer Hunting, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Fly Tying, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing

September 11, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report And just like that Summer is over.  Our spectacular Spring fishing stirs the beehive of activity and the shop doors swing open and shut with eager anglers for many months until Summer’s crescendo.  Labor Day inflates our local population by tenfold and then, on that first September Tuesday, the southbound traffic drains the people from woods and waters of Northern Michigan leaving the outdoors to deer and grouse and...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Brook Trout, Deer Hunting, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Fishing School, Fly Tying, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing, Tourism Tags: Au Sable River, Grouse

December 8, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Good news and happy day.  I guess my last report was just a bit premature.  I talked, last week, about how I’d passed on a good number of one and a half year old bucks and was leaving the 2016 white-tailed deer season okay with my decisions but empty handed.  Well, I

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Brook Trout, Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, River Reports, Streamer Fishing, Tourism, Weather

November 28, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It’s been a turbulent 2016 Deer Rifle Season here in Northern Michigan.  The thermometer in my truck read temperatures from seventy degrees all the way down to a chilly, nine degree morning start.  We had everything from Summer to Winter in a sixteen day season.  The drastic changes and short-lived weather patterns made it difficult predict deer movements and plenty of hunters (at least in my circle of friends) end...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, Tourism, Weather

November 19, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in the woods.  I’ve been neck deep in one last push for grouse and thick in a battle of wits with bucks from my bow stand.  I had a pile of close encounters with good bucks on the front end of the rut last week.  There were the two sets of two bucks fighting in the field just out of range.  And there was the trio of bucks hounding one frazzled looking doe.  All three came i...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Deer Hunting, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting

November 4, 2016 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report. Hate to see October slip by.  I wish there were at least two of them.  I’d say six, but there’s no sense in getting greedy, I guess. That...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Bow Hunting, Brook Trout, Deer Hunting, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, River Reports, Steelhead, Streamer Fishing