AuSable report

[beer and nuts]

Floated Rainbow bend down to McMasters on Friday evening and got 10 trout, all small but did keep one 13 inch rainbow. Spinners early and then rapalas as the sun set.

Brown drakes are hot on Mason Tract last night going tonight to try my luck above Chase. DRAKES ARE HERE, HEX SOON!

[WEEZER]

Brown drakes huh? I figured they would pop with this warm weather. Let us know how you do. Hopefully if things go good I'll be up on the South branch Wed. night

[beer and nuts]

Drakes and more drakes last night, a blancket hatch. The sky was thick with them. I caught four, downed some dandies. Buddy caught six, one went 17 inches. Tail end of the hatch the fish just quit feeding, kinda strange! But it only took about an hour and it was done by 11:00. Not alot of big boys feeding, by that I mean 18-20 plus inchers. All upstream of Chase-somewhere!:D

Another buddy floated Mio to McKinley on Sunday all day and got between 35-40 fish, mostly 10-11 inch rainbows but they did get 4 keepers and one 21 inch walleye, spinners and rapalas.

[kienbaumer]

ya i had a sulfur drake mix hatch saturday night. with a few stones. I had five nice fish on but only landed 3 of them (14" 15" 17") that was the longest spinner fall that i have experienced about 2 hrs, from 9 to 11 and there were still fish rising here and there. I'm going back tonight hehe

[WEEZER]

Wed night for sure boys, Beer and nuts you might see me there. Keinbaumer, ladykiller, sideshow however....I'm looking at a spinnerfall and then tossing rodents shortly after...who's down?

[binkley]

Let me know how things go Wednesday. I plan to head up there for the weekend. It's been hard concentrating on work knowing that the Drakes are popping and the Hex is coming soon! There will be sleepless nights soon......next week I will be burning up the trail between Midland and Roscommon.

thanks

Bink

[beer and nuts]

Another blancket hatch last night, but only managed to land one nice 17 incher. Couldn't keep them on the hook has I missed 4 other nice fish. Done by 11:15. Dad caught a nice one as well, and missed and bumped some nice ones too. Cooler temps for the weekend, will slow any Hex chance but than again you never know with that hatch. Rain and storms today might put a damper on tonights fishing-but thats just my prediction.

[kienbaumer]

I was there last night as well. Drakes everywhere!! Fish were rising good too. I only managed to land one 13" and lost a real nice one. Missed a few slurps as well.

[PW]

Geez, we should have had a conclave or something--I was in the Mason tract last night too. Landed half a dozen 10-13". Saw one real pig feeding...while I was in the process of rigging up. He quit feeding before I was ready. Took a good, fat brookie before the hatch started too. Is it my imagination, or are south branch brookies a bit daker than most?

[fishinlk]

PW,
My buddy and I had the same conversation about the brookies there. In the areas we fished it seems like the gravel bottom is kind of dark compared to alot of the other streams and the holes weren't really all that deep. The only other area's I've run into that they are anywhere close to that dark is when I catch them overtop of the really black muck. Anyone know more about this???

[Double Haul]

I've often found that after a large bug hatch like drakes or hex the fish feeding activity does slow. I always figured because the gluttons are full. The fish are still in mood but become selective. If its brown drakes I'll tie on a small (14-16) parachute adams or a fluttering caddis with a few strands of krystal flash in the wing.
Alot of times I'll still get some action. Most of the time by larger fish. If its hex, then any white attractor (wulff or downwing) smaller than the actual hatch usually gets a fishs attention.

Do you think there should be a catagory for "dessert flys"?

Good action on the Manistee tues night. Very few brn drakes, but the fish did cooperate.