Au Sable News

GRAYLING -- A reader sent an e-mail asking if the big Hexagenia mayflies were hatching.

Now that the Hexagenia hatch is on, one wall of the Old Au Sable Fly Shop in Grayling is devoted to artificials that match these giant mayflies.

When the Department of Natural Resources issued new trout regulations in 2000, many anglers complained they were too complicated with seven stream types and different size limits, possession limits and season dates for each.

Michigan Week begins Saturday May 16 and the Yak loves to celebrate our state. Here's a story from the Yak's Corner archives about one of our state's symbols, the Brook Trout.

Even though I will spend an inordinate amount of time searching for smallmouth bass, I refuse to apologize for being what some would call a "trout bum." As the years have progressed, I have found myself increasingly taken by trout fishing with a fly rod.

Residents who object to the size of a 2,260-cow dairy farm slated for Longnecker Road are pooling their funds.

On the left, VerHey speaks at a May 2008 DEQ meeting. On the right, a map of the proposed location of the dairy farm.

Writers like to be read. Journalists love readers and appreciate feedback -- even negative feedback, because it means that someone is reading their "cherished" words.

This letter may give some insight into the Feb. 8 article, " Decision on dams looms ." I have attended most of the Boardman River Dams Committee and Bottomlands/ Property Owners meetings.

An oil company will not be allowed to dump oilfield wastewater into the headwaters of the Au Sable River in Otsego County under a Michigan Supreme Court ruling.

GRAYLING -- Sick of staring out my office windows at seemingly endless snow falling on Lake Margrethe, I wandered into town the other day and stopped in the Old Au Sable Fly Shop.

Thousands of stream fishermen have bemoaned the collapse of the Lake Huron salmon fishery, where they used to troll for salmon offshore and intercept the chinooks when they entered the handful of rivers that ...

The worsening economy has taken another bite out of Whidbey with the announcement that the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies will suspend its summer academic program.