Labor Day weekend in Mio

[TODDFATHER]

I fished Labor Day weekend, various sections, from Mio to Commins Flats with little success. 3 hard days of fishing only produced an 18 inch rainbow and numerous chubs. The rainbow in and of itself was a wonderful fish indeed and catching it on a cane rod of my own making added to the excitement. Nonetheless, I've caught my share of nice fish through the years and strongly prefer more action than an ocassional nice fish. I'm chalking this trip up to being one of the great letdowns that the Ausable can bestow upon a person from time to time. If anyone did better than I did "salute"!

I'd be interested in hearing how anyone else did, but more importantly than the numbers, what did you find that would entice an Ausable trout for the above mentioned weekend!


Toddfather

[Silverexpress]

What did you catch that rainbow with, and what other flies did you try?
What type of presentation - dry fly, nymphing, streamers, midges, dipping a caddis, down and across?
what type of water were you targeting (deep holes, banks, midstream, runs, riffles, shaded areas, undercut banks, slow pools, rock gardens, bull rushes and weed beds....all the above)?
Where you wading or floating?
When were you fishing - middle of the day, early morning, midnight?
Rod weight and length?
Leader length?
Tippet size?
Did you happen to notice someone fly fishing across the river from you?

[WILDCATWICK]

I was up in the U.P. this weekend but spent the previous whole week up there. Had decent numbers but things are a little slow.

Typical day went:

9-11 tricos.

10-12:30 small bwos (emergers worked best)

11:00-3:00 Flying red ants!!!!!!

3:00-6:00 hoppers and small olive nymphs.

6:00 back to BWO's and also orange sedge.

half hour before dark to hell's bell's......MOUSE!!!!!:fish:

That would roughly be the typical day of activity that kept a bit of a bend in the rod.

[Barrister]

Fished streamers downstream from Mio this afternoon from 4:30-7:30. Caught 5 browns; smallest was ten inches, largest was 13; four of them came in the first 45 minutes. 2 came on the swing, the other three came when I was stripping in line. Hooked a monster swinging a black bead-headed wooly bugger along some downed trees on the south bank, but I lost the son of a gun. Felt like the biggest fish to bend my rod this year. Oh well...

White flies started to come off at around 7:30, and I saw quite a few fish hit the surface while I was walking along the bank back to the car. Wish I didn't have to work tomorrow -- would have been fun to spend an hour on dries. There's always next weekend.

[brookid]

...a mouse


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[Barrister]

Nice fish, brookid.