Latest / The Articulate Fly / S6, Ep 92: Guiding the North Platte: Carp, Tricos and Casper’s Best Bites

Transcript

S6, Ep 92: Guiding the North Platte: Carp, Tricos and Casper’s Best Bites · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Flower,
• 0:06
  Marvin: back with another On the Water with Dustin White. Dustin, how are you?
• 0:11
  Dustin: Marvin, doing well, enjoying some warm weather, but not necessarily oppressively
• 0:16
  Dustin: hot weather here in Wyoming. How about you?
• 0:18
  Marvin: I'm getting there. So, you know, it's kind of funny, you picked up a little
• 0:21
  Marvin: bit of elevation change going from Jekyll Island back to Casper.
• 0:26
  Dustin: Just a bit. Yeah, a bit of elevation and a lot less humidity.
• 0:31
  Dustin: But yeah, we're back in the saddle and been kind of rock and rolling here the last few weeks.
• 0:36
  Marvin: Yeah, and so you've been carping mostly, right?
• 0:39
  Dustin: Yeah, a lot of carping now. We're kind of hitting the tail end.
• 0:44
  Dustin: It's kind of the twilight of the season for us.
• 0:47
  Dustin: Generally, if our evenings stay warm, it'll hold on a little bit longer.
• 0:53
  Dustin: But, you know, when you start getting those temp inversions at night,
• 0:56
  Dustin: that's what kind of starts to slow some stuff down for it.
• 1:00
  Dustin: But, yeah, I've been doing a lot of carping the last few weeks,
• 1:03
  Dustin: been running the mile as well.
• 1:05
  Dustin: So, yeah, we're kind of rock and rolling on all fronts.
• 1:08
  Dustin: So, yeah, can't complain. Excited about it.
• 1:11
  Marvin: Yeah. And so on the carp front, do you have any like the equivalent of a mulberry
• 1:15
  Marvin: hatch going on right now? Cotton seed hatch, I guess, would probably be what it is.
• 1:18
  Marvin: Or are you just kind of targeting them a little bit more conventionally? Yeah.
• 1:21
  Dustin: Yeah, we'd be conventional here. We don't get too much of a cottonwood seed
• 1:25
  Dustin: specifically here on Pathfinder or Alcova.
• 1:28
  Dustin: If we went just down the road a little bit on Glendo, that reservoir can get
• 1:33
  Dustin: a bit of that cottonwood seed hatch.
• 1:37
  Dustin: And that'll work there. A lot of biomass there on that reservoir.
• 1:42
  Dustin: A bit smaller fish that kind of comes with that territory. But on Pathfinder
• 1:47
  Dustin: and Alcova, the two reservoirs that are right in our backyard, pretty conventional.
• 1:53
  Dustin: We're able to get them in the morning, eating on the surface before that temp
• 1:58
  Dustin: really starts to warm up the water.
• 2:00
  Dustin: You know, typical sort of setup, you know, a Turk's tarantula is kind of a pretty
• 2:07
  Dustin: tried and true go-to fly for us early in the morning.
• 2:11
  Dustin: But then once we come off that, we're pretty, you know, standard crustacean
• 2:16
  Dustin: and leech presentations to those fish.
• 2:20
  Dustin: Look at them as they start to move on the flats. So, yeah, usually,
• 2:24
  Dustin: you know, the last week and a half, two weeks or so, it's been probably mid-late
• 2:28
  Dustin: morning when those fish have been moving on to the flats.
• 2:32
  Dustin: So, yeah, that's been it. Got a little funkier the weekend. We had a massive walleye tournament.
• 2:37
  Dustin: So there were a lot of boats out. So that kind of made the fish a little bit
• 2:41
  Dustin: spooky, but, uh, we're, we're back to some, some normal fishing now, the, at the moment.
• 2:45
  Marvin: Yeah. They're not used to seeing the sparkle boats, are they?
• 2:49
  Dustin: No, not at all. And it was, it was a lot of boats by tenfold. What was it?
• 2:54
  Dustin: What we'd normally call a busy day, multiply that by about 10.
• 2:59
  Dustin: And, uh, I mean, they were kind of everywhere. So that was a little bit of a
• 3:03
  Dustin: hiccup, uh, um, in it. But other than that, yeah, we're pretty well normal with them.
• 3:09
  Dustin: And like I said, I think we'll have a little bit of a longer season than typical,
• 3:15
  Dustin: just because those temps have been holding on for us. So we're grateful for that.
• 3:21
  Marvin: Yeah. And so what are you seeing on the North Platte?
• 3:24
  Dustin: Yeah, so on the mile, a lot of trichos are popping.
• 3:29
  Dustin: We've had some rains, and so there's a lot of annelids in the water.
• 3:34
  Dustin: So pretty much nymphing at this point on the mile.
• 3:39
  Dustin: Some caddis popping here or there. Still have some PMVs holding on.
• 3:43
  Dustin: But, you know, early in the morning, trichos are tried and true.
• 3:47
  Dustin: You know, moved down in the river system. Thankfully, we finally had a bit of
• 3:51
  Dustin: a drop on Fremont Canyon. So folks that are out wanting to weight fish that,
• 3:55
  Dustin: that's probably been our best dry fly fishing at the moment.
• 4:01
  Dustin: So if you are really, really, really hardcore wanting to throw dries,
• 4:07
  Dustin: I'd say Fremont Canyon is a really good bet.
• 4:11
  Dustin: Those flows are back into a manageable weight right now.
• 4:14
  Dustin: But even on the reef, our hopper fishing is stable.
• 4:19
  Dustin: It's kind of solid. I wouldn't say it's lights out, but it's definitely worthwhile
• 4:23
  Dustin: to do early in the mornings.
• 4:25
  Dustin: There's trichos as that spinner fall starts to happen.
• 4:29
  Dustin: Fish are starting to look up there. And then throughout the day,
• 4:32
  Dustin: same thing, analids, caddis, some PMDs. That'll work on that front.
• 4:39
  Marvin: Very, very cool. And, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
• 4:42
  Marvin: We didn't have one this time, but send us your questions. And if we use your
• 4:45
  Marvin: question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.
• 4:49
  Marvin: We are drawing for a half a day of fishing with Dustin and, you know,
• 4:52
  Marvin: however, you know, whatever's easiest for you. You want to DM us on social media.
• 4:55
  Marvin: You want to email me any way you want to send us the questions. It's awesome.
• 4:59
  Marvin: And Dustin, as we always do, we want to give a shout out to a local restaurant
• 5:02
  Marvin: slash watering hole. What do you have for us?
• 5:05
  Dustin: Yeah, Fire Rock Restaurant is a local haunt for sure.
• 5:10
  Dustin: That's probably one of a few restaurants that if you want a classy night a bit
• 5:18
  Dustin: when you get off the water with just a fantastic meal,
• 5:22
  Dustin: killer bar service, incredible cocktails, and a great draft list,
• 5:26
  Dustin: that's always where we send folks.
• 5:28
  Dustin: But the great thing about it is, as us guides, you can easily roll in in your
• 5:34
  Dustin: Chaco shorts and sun shirt, and you're not going to have anyone bat an eye about it, too.
• 5:40
  Dustin: So it's kind of a cool spot to where if you want that fancier vibe,
• 5:44
  Dustin: there's an option there.
• 5:46
  Dustin: But they've got a great patio and, like I said, just a wonderful bar and bar
• 5:50
  Dustin: staff there that takes care of us. So if folks are going there,
• 5:54
  Dustin: they're Manhattans, I strongly recommend for the drink.
• 5:59
  Dustin: And then, Marvin, I tend to be a creature of habit, so I kind of flip back and
• 6:04
  Dustin: forth between their pork chop that they do a bourbon applesauce kind of chutney on it,
• 6:11
  Dustin: as well as they have a kind of a spicy honey glazed cedar plank salmon.
• 6:17
  Dustin: And so I kind of bounce back and forth between the two of those.
• 6:20
  Dustin: But that's definitely a spot that you'll see us fishing guides take our dates
• 6:26
  Dustin: to when we got off the water.
• 6:28
  Marvin: Very neat. What you would call Casper Resort Casual.
• 6:32
  Dustin: Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what it is.
• 6:37
  Marvin: It's always nice to know you can go a place like that and you don't walk in
• 6:40
  Marvin: the door and they make you put on a blazer that they just pull off the rack for you, right?
• 6:44
  Dustin: Exactly. No, yeah. It's not like that. You can definitely dress up there if
• 6:47
  Dustin: you want to, but plenty of us guides will roll in and get a cocktail when you
• 6:53
  Dustin: get off the water and sit at the bar, munch on some food.
• 6:57
  Dustin: It's a great spot. And so anytime a client says, hey, we want kind of a fancier
• 7:04
  Dustin: sort of sit down, that always makes the short list in terms of just really quality food, good variety.
• 7:12
  Dustin: Obviously, if you want to stay down Main Street, so to speak,
• 7:16
  Dustin: in terms of the menu, you can get a killer steak there as well.
• 7:21
  Dustin: But they give you enough options where you can deviate into some other culinary
• 7:27
  Dustin: expressions that's definitely worthwhile.
• 7:30
  Marvin: Yeah, well, there you go. And before I let you go, you want to let folks know
• 7:33
  Marvin: kind of what your guide calendar looks like kind of coming into the homestretch
• 7:37
  Marvin: and how to reach out and get on the books and all that kind of good stuff.
• 7:40
  Dustin: Yeah, fall is definitely pretty full, but there's some dates still open.
• 7:44
  Dustin: As you remember, Marvin, our fall is just a dynamic time, especially if folks
• 7:51
  Dustin: are wanting to throw dries, strip streamers, that is the time to do it.
• 7:56
  Dustin: And so a couple of dates still open.
• 7:57
  Dustin: If someone wants to do that, I'd highly recommend it. But you can give our shop a call at 307-234-6905.
• 8:06
  Dustin: Or you can find me on Instagram at Dustin James White. Drop me a message and
• 8:10
  Dustin: I'll be happy to get you on the books.
• 8:12
  Marvin: There you go. Well, as I say, folks, you owe it to yourself to get out there
• 8:15
  Marvin: and catch a few tight lines, everybody tight lines, Dustin tight lines.
• 8:20
  Dustin: Marvin. Thanks so much.