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It seems every year the hex almost arrive, and then it gets cold and gray for about four or five days and this is what we call Iso week. Iso week is awesome. Iso week is fishing size 10 and 12 dry flies through the heavier runs of the Au
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Trout fishing on the Pere Marquette River has been pretty good on most outings. The weather and water level has
June 4, 2024 Northern Angler Fishing Report
If there is a fast forward button for the weather this sping/early summer, someone please hit pause! Things are ramping up really quickly in the hatch department. We are seeing Isos, brown drakes and the fish are looking up! Cooler
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
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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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
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
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!
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!
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