Au Sable News

Federal forest officials are again eyeing a plan for a natural gas well that environmental groups halted with a lawsuit.

Poor old Michigan cana t even get global warming right! Ita s another wet and cold Saturday up here in the North Woods.

It's mid-June, a number of years back, and I'm paddling my Necky kayak upstrem on the Au Sable from the Conner's Flats section.

It's mid-June, a number of years back, and I'm paddling my Necky kayak upstrem on the Au Sable from the Conner's Flats section.

It's mid-June, a number of years back, and I'm paddling my Necky kayak upstrem on the Au Sable from the Conner's Flats section.

It's mid-June, a number of years back, and I'm paddling my Necky kayak upstrem on the Au Sable from the Conner's Flats section.

It's mid-June, a number of years back, and I'm paddling my Necky kayak upstrem on the Au Sable from the Conner's Flats section.

Trout were rising, splashing, slurping, and sipping on bugs that were hatching and spinning to the water on a lovely July evening in northern Michigan.

Since the Au Sable Institute announced last November the cancellation of classes, the staff has been desperately trying to figure out a way to keep the Coupeville campus open, thus preventing the property from possibly being sold.

The 62nd Annual Wayerhauser Au Sable Canoe Marathon began at 9 tonight and racers have now begun their 120 mile journey to Oscoda.

The 120-mile Au Sable Canoe Marathon starts in Grayling at 9 p.m. Saturday, with the winning paddlers reaching the finish in Oscoda 14-15 hours later.

Hide Video We have breaking news involving the accidental shooting death of a Northern Michigan high school student.

So far in July we've had three nights in Grayling with temperatures below 40 degrees.

Was that a Sack of Potatoes Leaping from the Water or Did I Just Hook a Huron River Smallmouth? I ain't quite on cloud nine, but I'm squarely footed on cloud eight with a lovely view of that one above.

A measure to provide more than $64 million for dredging and other navigational improvements in the Great Lakes, including several projects in the Saginaw Bay watershed, is working its way through Congress.

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.