Late May Fishing Report

With May coming to an end, the Mayfly hatches and trout fishing continues. This time of year it’s often time for headlamps and evening spinner falls at dusk when the mayflies drop to the surface to feed the fish. Hatches have been sporadic and with the weather, they can emerge

Mixed Bag

To put it lightly:  Mixed bag.  It’s drake season on the Au Sable.  I’m feeling it.  I felt it when a brief rainstorm killed the spinner fall at the top of this report.  I felt it when an all day rain provided some of the best day-time draking I’ve ever

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May 23, 2024

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The river is in great shape!  Holding a slight stain, but clearing quickly in the upper sections.  Bugs are hatching most evenings when conditions are right…Gray Drakes and Sulphurs mostly, but yellow sallies and stones are around.  I also spotted a damsel yesterday

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The Sparrow

It’s getting awfully near brown drake time on the Au Sable.  A week of miserably hot weather, skyrocketing water temps, and warm nights has started the first of our big bugs hatching on the nearby lakes and on some of the marginal stretches of the Au Sable.  It won’t be

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Shifting gears in the U.P.

Keeping an eye out for hatches is key, and we have got a good handle on what to expect with hendricksons, stones, caddis, and the upcoming sulphurs and brown drakes. And it’s always fun to experiment with different streamer patterns like D&Ds, zoo cougars, and the top-secret drunken foresters!

Shifting gears in the U.P.

Keeping an eye out for hatches is key, and we have got a good handle on what to expect with hendricksons, stones, caddis, and the upcoming sulphurs and brown drakes. And it’s always fun to experiment with different streamer patterns like D&Ds, zoo cougars, and the top-secret drunken foresters!

Mid-May Fishing Report

At the mid-point of May it sure feels like we are at the end of May based on the weather and fishing conditions. The hatches are progressing with the sulphurs winding down on the trout rivers. It seems the great mahoganies are increasing in density each year and this year

Fishing Report 5/17/24

The middle of May has produced productive fishing on all fronts.  From smaller lakes bluegill and bass to trout on the local cold water streams.  It is the time of year to get out and enjoy the flowering trees, the happy birds and rising

Brown Bugs

Brown bugs:  The mixed bag of spinners on mid-May evenings.   It used to be that we tried to identify all of them, but our old friend Dennis B just called them “brown bugs” and that suited us better.  What are we talking about?  Siphloplectons, Borchers Drakes, March Browns, Hendricksons, Mahoganies.  Sizes

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