If God has a recipe for great trout streams, this may be where He gets the ingredients. Cold, clean mountain brooks feed the river’s main channel, where huge boulders create a seemingly endless series ...

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A passionate fly fisherman builds his bucket-list second home on the banks of the Au Sable River. This article first appeared in Traverse Northern Michigan. Find this story and more when you explore ...

THE LAST TIME I DROVE between the spires of jack pines that line the road to Wa Wa Sum, I had just turned 20 and was working summers for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. It was a dream ...

If we are fortunate, we can gaze down the vista of our lives with humor and humility, essential elements of the final phase of the fisherman’s philosophy—calling upon the wisdom of the elders who ...

I am wading in the lifeblood of Michigan, the Au Sable River. My left arm tenses as I cast. I'm not a lefty, but the temporarily useless right hand won't be able to reel in a fish for at least a month ...

The West Branch of the Au Sable River offers more than 20 miles of pristine trout water in the heart of New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The most popular stretch of the river is located along Route 86 ...