Been looking for a while and finally found the perfect fit for Streamside! Good friend and top notch fly fishing and bird hunting guide. Going to expand our water to the entire Au Sable – Grayling to Oscoda. Cameron started fly fishing on the North Branch of the Au Sable River at the age of […]
Its only end of the first week in April and snow & ice has been gone for weeks. Also currently water are very low on the Au Sable. That typically means are first major hatch will be here early – Dark Hendrickson. This is the one hatch that can bring up Big Browns in the […]
Have had a great couple months chasing these Atlantic Salmon around the Au Sable! Currently they are still around in low numbers but some are very aggressive now. These post spawning Atlantics are looking for food now and they love to eat minnows and sculpins in the river. These fish are so perfectly suited for […]
The lower Au Sable River has been fishing real good the last few weeks for Atlantic Salmon and now Steelhead are also showing up. Conditions have been pretty much ideal with stable flows coming out of Foote Dam 1200-1400 cfs most days. Been a few spikes from rain and that is also a good thing […]
This week was a change of seasons for myself and my guide service. I spend the past 6 weeks guiding for Kings in NW Michigan on the Betsie River. Now its back home to NE Michigan chasing Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout on the Au Sable River! Steelhead will be added in the next couple […]
It won’t be long now for Kings to start running the rivers of North West Michigan! Its been a hot summer here so far and some years we have fishable numbers by now but that is not the case right now. Next good batch of North winds and some rain should do it. I will […]
The two last major hatches on the Au Sable River happen here in August and can provide some excellent dry fly fishing for trout & smallmouth bass. These dark hex are a different species than the ones that hatch in June and currently are going in the lower Big Waters of the Mio water. These […]
Extreme heat so far this July in Northern Michigan and pretty much the whole country! For the Au Sable trout this means time to give them a break. Hopefully weather patterns will change by mid August in time for our White Fly hatch. Currently for me its Smallmouth Bass time in the lower water. So […]
June was a good month for us here in Northern Michigan and I spend it chasing Big Browns in the dark on the Brown Drake, Iso and Hex hatches. All was pretty much right on schedule with pretty much ideal weather until late June. Then came the heat and that has pretty much shut down […]
With the current orders from our Michigan governor no guide trips till May 1st now. I have still been fishing but it’s all solo of late as others are not allowed in boat – social distancing. I’m filling up my May calendar starting then. If another set back comes along we will refund deposits or […]