The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Well, when you live in the North it’s only a matter of time before winter turns tough and Arctic air dumps into the Great Lakes Region. There’s a beauty of a deep freeze settling in. The snow will be squeaky when daytime high temperatures just tickle single digits. So, you do what you’ve learned over the years of living around the forty fifth parallel—you hunker down. You fill the wood box and the gas tanks and you dig out indoor ...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Brown Drakes, BWO, Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing Community, Fly Tying, Hex, Ice Fishing, ISO, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Trico, Weather

The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Ice fishing is in full swing.  We have lots of hard water to fish and anglers have been taking full advantage. So many anglers are hitting the ice in Northern Michigan, that I could barely find a tub of waxworms to buy last Sunday night in preparation for a Monday morning excursion.  My buddy and I poked into five different places before we found a few dozen.  That’s flat nuts! People have headed to the woods and waters in dro...

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

February 1, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Mess of Walleye   I had a beautiful winter break...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Dry Fly Fishing, Fishing Tips, Ice Fishing, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports Tags: Rising Trout, Ice Fishing

January 23, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Last Year Memory   Man, I’ve be...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Ice Fishing, Michigan Winter Fishing Tags: Winter

January 11, 2018 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report   Jan 6th, -28 to start the day  ...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Fly Tying, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, River Reports, Streamer Fishing Tags: Nymph Fishing, Fly Tying Class

    December 30,2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Here we go!  It’s ice fishing time now.  The winter blast is upon us.  We normally average about thirty degrees this time of year but the current ten day forecast is locked in single and low double digits.  The ice machine is cranking.  I can almost hear the ice popping and cracking.  I can certainly hear it when my deck pops under my feet on the morning trudge out to my wood pile. ...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Blue Gills, Fishing Tips, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports Tags: Ice Fishing

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

March 3, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report.     Remind me to never again poke fun at the groundhog.  Turns out that Punxsatauny Phil is a spiteful little cur. Welco...

By: Andy Partlo   Category: Fishing Tips, Fly Tying, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, River Reports

  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

  January 19, 2017 The Old Au Sable Fly Shop Fishing Report Ice fishing season continues to blossom here in Northern Michigan.  Nearly all of the inland lakes have at l...

By: Jeff Gardner   Category: Blue Gills, Fishing Tips, Fly Fishing School, Fly Tying, Ice Fishing, Michigan Reports, Michigan Winter Fishing, River Reports, Streamer Fishing, Uncategorized, Weather Tags: Ice Fishing, fly tying, Winter Fishing, Northern Michigan