Fishing Report

In popular culture, up a creek is a bad thing.  To the angler, it's a good thing.  In fact, the further up a creek you are, the better.  I got pretty far up one today.  To be honest, the last few days have been pretty uninspiring.  Both the Au Sable and Manistee are...

Yesterday had one of those socked-in hendrickson afternoons.  You know the type:  warm enough for them to hatch, too cold for them to dry their wings.  In some stretches the water temperatures were warm enough for the bugs, but the fish didn't really respond.  In...

The bugs of spring are the hendricksons.  And the hendricksons are hatching.  They are hatching on the Manistee, North Branch, South Branch, Mainstream, Above Mio, Below Mio.  The rivers are low and clear.  We can wade in 2021.  It's a damn fine year to be a dry fly...

Before this little cool down-- --the hendricksons, olives, and stones were hatching pretty well and spreading throughout the river system.  By the weekend, into next week, and right through Opening Day I think this is going to be a pretty good dry fly spring.  I...