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I think the crazy wild fluctuations in flow probably bring more fish into the river, than a few days of slightly above freezing weather. But it will take some warmer water to trigger a major run. There should be smallish pushes of fish hitting the river on high-water events.

It would be helpful if the people who operate the dams, or who program the operation of the dams, could get their stuff together. Every time it gets cold - say below 15* at night, Foote dam shuts way down, so the flow drops well below 1000 cfs. They have all sorts of stupid lame excuses, but the only valid excuse is that, after operating the dam (and numerous others) for many decades, Consumers Energy still has no concept of how to operate the dam in a way that is conducive to the species that live in the river, and which run the river. Zero. Either that, or specific people who control the flow in the lower Ausable are idiots, and just screw with stuff because they can. There is not a more logical explanation for the recent fluctuations in flows.

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