October 31, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.   New Canoe Launch   We’re moving...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing Tags: Manistee River, Au Sable River

October 17, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.   Fall at Wakely   It is time for bi...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Deer Hunting, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports Tags: Grouse, Au Sable

September 27, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.     The first whiffs of Fall are finally in the breeze.  The mornings are crisp and cool.  It feels good to p...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Bow Hunting, Brook Trout, Deer Hunting, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Grouse Hunting Tags: Au Sable River

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 27, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report With a heavy snap of the switch it just all changed.  We got everything we were asking for and more.  The...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Fishing Tips, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing, Weather Tags: Au Sable River Flood, Streamer Fishing

    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

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 28, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report I spent a week in Wyoming chasing Sage Grouse.   It’d been too long since I’d visited the West.  The Wyoming grasslands were spectacular with wide vistas and rolling hills and flat topped buttes dripping with green draws and drainages.  Seemingly everywhere

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Dry Fly Fishing, Grouse Hunting, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Steelhead, Streamer Fishing, Tourism, Uncategorized

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