Au Sable river

General data

Water type: River
Progression: Lake Huron -> St. Clair River -> Lake St. Clair (North America) -> Detroit river -> Lake Erie -> Niagara -> Lake Ontario -> St. Lawrence River -> Gulf of St. Lawrence -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Continental
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Description

The Au Sable River in Michigan, United States runs approximately 138 miles (222 km) through the northern Lower Peninsula, through the towns of Grayling and Mio, and enters Lake Huron at the town of Oscoda. It is considered one of the best brown trout fisheries east of the Rockies and has been designated a blue ribbon trout stream by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. A map from 1795 located in the United States Gazetteer calls it the Beauais River. In French, the river is called the Rivière au sable, literally Sand River.

Esociformes - Pikes

Northern pike (Esox lucius)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Brown trout (Salmo trutta)

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)

Perciformes - Perches

Walleye (Sander vitreus)

Rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)

Catches