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S6, Ep 85: On the Water with Dustin White · The Articulate Fly

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  Marvin: Hey folks it's marvin cash the host of the articulate fly and we're back with
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  Marvin: another on the water with dustin white dustin how are you marvin.
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  Dustin: I uh have a little bit of r and r happening right now down in the golden isles
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  Dustin: so i'm uh feeling pretty pretty darn good how about you.
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  Marvin: Yeah i'm just uh sitting here doing what i do been uh been recording all day
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  Marvin: but it's all good but you know for folks that don't know the golden isles are
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  Marvin: you want to let them know it's kind of of like down and like off the coast of
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  Marvin: southeastern georgia yeah.
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  Dustin: Yep southeast georgia up to northeast florida
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  Dustin: and so uh i mean one of my just absolute favorite
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  Dustin: places on the planet and love it to
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  Dustin: death and my uh my wife's family is is
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  Dustin: is from uh this neck of the woods and her folks have uh have a house down on
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  Dustin: on one of the islands so we come down and uh make it a regular uh haunt uh a
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  Dustin: few time throughout the year uh if we're lucky and you get to relax a little
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  Dustin: bit unwind a little bit fish a bit and uh yeah i enjoy it.
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  Marvin: Yeah it's interesting too because the kind of the cool thing about that part
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  Marvin: of the world is if you like to fish and you don't like crowded beaches it's
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  Marvin: a good place to go because all those coastal rivers yeah they dump a bunch of
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  Marvin: silt and people don't like that that are beach people um right and so like you
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  Marvin: know the jekyll river kind of keeps Jekyll Island from being completely overrun with human beings.
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  Dustin: Exactly, exactly. Yeah, it's definitely a place of tranquility and beauty,
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  Dustin: but it's not the Daytona Beach sort of vibe whatsoever. So we love it here.
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  Marvin: Yeah, so you didn't have to put your Jaeger Luge in your checked luggage?
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  Dustin: No, no, no. Definitely didn't have to do that at all.
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  Dustin: Just, uh, just some, uh, some, uh, a pretty light, uh, pack of,
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  Dustin: uh, some clothes, uh, fishing rods, reels, some, some, some light tackle like that.
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  Dustin: And then, uh, uh, a buck or two to read and we're on our way.
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  Marvin: Yeah. So do you want to let folks kind of know about the redfish and the tarpon
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  Marvin: bite, or do you want to kind of update folks on what's going on back home?
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  Dustin: We can we can do both yeah um that's
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  Dustin: the cool thing about uh this area of the country um you
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  Dustin: know it's uh one of my i've been fishing this island
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  Dustin: now for for close to 20 years um it's
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  Dustin: definitely um a a red fish kind of
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  Dustin: just epicenter i mean it's just a
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  Dustin: killer reds fishery um so you
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  Dustin: know whether you uh want to hire a guide uh and
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  Dustin: there's a number in the area that are
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  Dustin: good buds that i would recommend or diy it
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  Dustin: um the reds fishing is is is pretty self-explanatory pretty
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  Dustin: basic um and there's there's a
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  Dustin: ton of great spots that you can hit um
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  Dustin: in either of those formats uh and then
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  Dustin: the really cool thing is about this time of year um it's got
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  Dustin: the the big migratory tarpon that are
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  Dustin: pushing up through uh this year was a a little
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  Dustin: bit rough uh in that uh preceding us
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  Dustin: arriving here there's a tropical storm and uh
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  Dustin: as explained to me by a buddy of mine who's a guy down here really kind
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  Dustin: of went a little screwy with the the bait so none of the fish were really out
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  Dustin: front uh on in you know kind of ocean side and a lot of the flats and that sort
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  Dustin: of thing so a lot of them were back in the those silty rivers uh you described
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  Dustin: about but it it is a substantial push of fish and so uh yeah this year a little bit of a bust but.
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  Dustin: Have uh just really really fallen in love with this place
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  Dustin: and yeah and then there's a ton of other species too so
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  Dustin: it's a it's a really cool place so yeah i've been
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  Dustin: down here the last couple days um but uh had
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  Dustin: uh you know some really productive fishing uh back home in wyoming before we
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  Dustin: came down and here in a couple days when we head back i look forward to some
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  Dustin: some more productive fishing um primarily uh coming back uh most of my trips
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  Dustin: come back are going to to be carping, but,
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  Dustin: uh, we did have, uh, and have had, uh,
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  Dustin: a bunch of productive trout fishing as well.
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  Marvin: Uh, very cool. You were telling me that really the action has been kind of on
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  Marvin: the mile, uh, for the most part for the trout front and that there's been a
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  Marvin: little bit of flux on the reef.
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  Dustin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They, um, they've been raising and dropping our flows, uh, again on the reef.
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  Dustin: Um and so that's made things
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  Dustin: you know day of can make things uh especially
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  Dustin: on the bump when they raise it back up can make things a
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  Dustin: little funky uh obviously on the drop uh it might be a little a little funky
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  Dustin: at first just for a few hours but can really actually supercharge those fish
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  Dustin: um but yeah seems that there's still some some work to do on those valves on
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  Dustin: the dam And so that's, as we understand it,
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  Dustin: kind of what's led to those changes and fluctuations in the flows.
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  Dustin: But yeah, primarily reef has been still PMDs, sallies, and with some caddis mixed in.
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  Dustin: Honestly, the last week, you know, I've been on the mile, caddis,
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  Dustin: caddis, caddis, caddis, caddis.
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  Dustin: Those fish are really really keyed in
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  Dustin: on caddis right now and in fairly sizable size
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  Dustin: i'm fishing you know size 12s uh
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  Dustin: and 14s um you can get by with maybe
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  Dustin: some smaller ones but this this fish are really really keyed in
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  Dustin: on on pretty large caddis right now um lower sections
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  Dustin: and up in the canyon still had some stonefly productivity
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  Dustin: but um that certainly is going to be waning um
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  Dustin: uh pretty rapidly uh but still
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  Dustin: a ton of fish in the system and uh not to
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  Dustin: let the cat out of the bag too much but it's been a bit
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  Dustin: of a brown trout haven um the this year's been a really exciting year in the
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  Dustin: last uh probably two and a half weeks we've seen just a large number of large
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  Dustin: browns um that have kind of pushed up from the reservoir into the river uh pretty
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  Dustin: you know pretty Pretty early considering,
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  Dustin: you know, that we're in July and we've had a pretty big influx of browns in there.
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  Marvin: Well, that's pretty cool. And got a question for you from Chris,
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  Marvin: and this is kind of an interesting one for you.
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  Marvin: He's, yeah, he's planning to come out to your neck of the woods in September,
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  Marvin: and he wants to find good locations where he can camp and that it's close to
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  Marvin: good wade fishing. Yeah.
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  Dustin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. So the gray reefs on the reef itself,
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  Dustin: you'll find BLM camping around the Reds or Pete's Draw are two gray areas on the reef.
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  Dustin: But if you drop a little bit lower, you have the Trapper's Route section that
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  Dustin: has also additionally really, really good camping there on the reef.
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  Dustin: In terms of public camping, that's probably your best bet.
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  Dustin: Although, if you're able to maybe set up a shop there, but maybe venture other places to wade fish.
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  Dustin: Laura, as you get into town in Evansville, there's some really,
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  Dustin: really productive wade fishing opportunities there as well.
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  Dustin: And additionally, Chris, the mile always has free camping and can see some really,
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  Dustin: really fun dry fly action.
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  Dustin: As we kind of mentioned a few moments ago, it's always kind of a roll in the
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  Dustin: ice whether or not those browns are running into the mile.
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  Dustin: But the mile gives you free camping for up to 14 days per site.
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  Dustin: No reservations needed. needed uh just kind of
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  Dustin: show up first come first serve uh but most of
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  Dustin: the mile well it can be a little technical and can be higher gradient um in
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  Dustin: the summer by the time you hit the fall uh they'll be at winter flows and it's
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  Dustin: it's a pretty accessible wade fish there so you got options on the reef trappers
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  Dustin: route section uh but then additionally the mile is going to give you a lot of
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  Dustin: opportunities as well to both camp and wade fish yeah.
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  Marvin: Well there you go and you know folks we love questions on the articulate fly
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  Marvin: you can email them to us or dm us on social media you whatever is easiest for you.
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  Marvin: We are drawing for a half a day of fishing with Dustin and Dustin,
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  Marvin: as we always do, we want to pay homage to a local restaurant slash watering
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  Marvin: hole. What do we have on tap this time?
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  Dustin: Yeah, the Sunrise Shopping Plaza slash Bowling Alley did a huge remodel,
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  Dustin: and I think they're calling it Boomtown now.
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  Dustin: But you and I, Marvin, I think in the fall last year, swung by and watched a
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  Dustin: Thursday night football game, had some wings, some good cold drafts that were pretty affordable.
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  Dustin: And so, yeah, love to highlight Boomtown and the Sunrise Lounge that's there
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  Dustin: because, you know, pretty great drinks, fantastic staff,
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  Dustin: and then killer food, too.
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  Dustin: So, and it's conveniently nearby where my wife, Jamie, and I live.
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  Dustin: So, that gets added points for me.
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  Marvin: You only have to cross four lanes of traffic.
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  Dustin: Exactly, exactly.
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  Marvin: Yeah, the food there is great, and I'm a big fan of kind of rustic bars that have buckets of beer.
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  Dustin: Yes, yeah, that's the sort of bar it is. It's a bucket of beer bar,
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  Dustin: and we're in July now, so I can't quite recall what the special they were running
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  Dustin: then, but I do remember that if there was a football game on,
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  Dustin: the wings were only X amounts and the beers were only this much.
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  Dustin: So it's a great spot, great staff.
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  Dustin: We frequented a bunch and are appreciative of them and their services.
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  Marvin: Yeah, it's funny. I think the prices were so good, I thought maybe I was in
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  Marvin: an episode of Hot Tub Time Machine.
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  Dustin: Yeah, this has to be 1987 prices.
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  Marvin: Yeah, it wasn't quite nickel wings, but it was pretty close.
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  Dustin: It was pretty close, yeah. I think they were like dime or quarter wing.
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  Dustin: I mean, they were pretty affordable wings. So, and again, sauce was great.
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  Dustin: Wings were great. Their pizza was fantastic.
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  Dustin: My wife and I get it a bunch. So yeah, it's a good spot for us.
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  Marvin: Yeah. So, you know, you know, put that on the dance card, Chris,
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  Marvin: when you, you come out, when you either, before you head out of town to camp
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  Marvin: or when you come back and you're really hungry and, you know,
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  Marvin: folks as always say, yo, to yourself to get out there and catch a few tight
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  Marvin: lines, everybody tight lines, Dustin.
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  Dustin: Tight lines, Marvin. Thanks so much.