Golf in Au Gres

Au Gres is a small Arenac County Lake Huron resort community at the mouth of the Au Gres River, a village whose year-round character is defined by commercial and sport fishing on the bay and whose summer personality expands dramatically with the cottage and boat-launch crowds that make Lake Huron's perch and walleye fishery one of the primary draws for the region's recreational visitors. The Au Gres area's spring fishing—particularly the Lake Huron perch runs that have made the bay one of Michigan's most productive shallow-water fisheries—has sustained the community's resort economy even as the timber and industrial economies of the surrounding county have faded. Multiple golf courses serve the amplified summer market of Au Gres, reflecting the seasonal population's recreational breadth beyond the fishing that primarily brings visitors here.