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With spawn in full-swing on the Au Sable I skipped a couple weeks of fishing reports, prompting some concerns about my health. I’m fine, if irregular (ha ha). Sorry for the delay.
In some ways, Halloween week (and the following) is my very favorite of the fall. Sure, the leaves
October is winding down and water levels remain low. The lack of any significant precipitation has kept local rivers low and running clear. Still, some steelhead have moved into rivers and have been hard to hold onto once hooked with the water being warmer than normal. Larger rivers and their
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Last Saturday we hosted our annual Fall River Clean-Up and it was very well attended!!! A huge “THANK YOU!” to all of those individuals that participated in the event! It’s wonderful to see so many people that “walk the walk” and are willing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiPA6bkt08 #mtb #mountainbike #bike Headed North to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula summer (2023) with the crew for some much needed trail fun in the Marquette mountain biking scene. Day 3 had us in Ishpeming to ride the RAMBA Trails. We’ve never been there so we started off at Jackson Park. Based
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First and foremost, I want to remind everyone that we will be hosting our annual Fall River Clean-Up this Saturday, October 19th! We will meet at the shop at 8am to figure our float/boat or walk in assignments and all volunteers are welcome.
It’s starting to feel like fall with lots of color in the trees but also cooler air temperatures. The salmon fishing is past its peak on local rivers that continue to run low and clear and warmer than it should for mid-October. The rain is falling as I type and
Lately on most river systems we’ve been playing the game “how low can we go” most of our river systems haven’t seen rain in over 2 weeks. Any that have, never got any real rain water in the headwater sections. This has left the rivers in very rough shape
I found a couple free hours this morning to go fishing. My goal was to work at home and hit the river as the air temp climbed to a modest 60 degrees. The world was alive this morning as I worked. Deer came and went from our pond — ten
Just wanted to give a huge thanks to all of those that fished with us this past summer. Overall it was a great summer as far as fishing goes….though we did suffer through some mechanical problems the first half of the season. We are already looking forward to next year.
Finally starting to look and feel like fall !
Just a quick update on the upcoming fall steelhead season. I expect this years fall run to be back to normal…there were great numbers of steelhead in the lake this summer and this should translate into a much better steelhead fishery