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S6, Ep 27: On the Salt with GotOne · The Articulate Fly

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  Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,
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  Marvin: and we're back with another On the Salt with Got One with Captain David Blinken.
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  Marvin: David, how are you doing?
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  David: I'm doing great. I'm counting the days to when I can get on the back of my skip
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  David: and start pulling clients around. I'm psyched.
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  Marvin: Yeah, and you've got less than 24 hours before daylight savings time,
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  Marvin: So it ought to be good, right?
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  David: I know. I can't wait. I love the longer days. I know everyone doesn't like losing
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  David: that hour of sleep, but hey, go to bed early.
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  Marvin: There you go. And I guess, you know, the only bummer is it probably means your
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  Marvin: ski season is winding down, right?
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  David: It's winding down a little, but, you know, I kind of live for March and April skiing.
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  David: I think it's the best skiing of the year. A lot of people kind of after February,
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  David: you know, wax the skis and put them away. way.
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  David: But those of us in the business, March and April is kind of where it's at.
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  David: It's some of the best skiing of the season.
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  Marvin: And do you like it because it's not crowded and you don't have to bundle up?
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  Marvin: Because I would imagine right when it's colder, you probably have better powder, right?
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  David: I'll tell you something. March can have some incredible powder.
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  David: And as long as you're skiing it while it's falling in the create,
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  David: as soon as the sun hits it, it can turn into mashed potatoes.
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  David: But no, I just love, I love March powder. But the other thing about March and
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  David: April is you get corn corn snow.
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  David: And I know a lot of people don't like it, but skiing the corn,
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  David: there's nothing like it. It's just so smooth and groovy.
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  Marvin: Oh, neat. And of course, you know, as we were getting close to spring,
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  Marvin: that kind of means new beginnings.
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  Marvin: And we thought it would be an interesting idea to kind of talk about a,
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  Marvin: uh, kind of a beginner fly box for fishing the salt in the Northeast.
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  David: Yeah, you know, a beginner fly box is so interesting because,
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  David: you know, people are on the web looking at all these complicated flies and,
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  David: you know, they're really fun and stuff like game changers and beast flies and
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  David: stuff. And those are just incredible flies.
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  David: But really, just you want to keep it simple.
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  David: You want to have a couple of bucktails
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  David: and clousers and some deceivers and maybe a popper and you're set.
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  David: And that's going to cover most everything you do.
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  David: Um in in in the early
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  David: stages of your fly fishing life and uh
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  David: you know maybe carry a couple
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  David: of shock tips around or or some wire leader for when the bluefish show up but
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  David: uh you know keeping it simple is sort of sort of always been a motto of mine
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  David: uh when i open up my fly box i probably have I have four patterns just tied
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  David: in different sizes and colors, and that's really it.
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  David: I just try to keep it simple. And for all the beginner saltwater fly anglers
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  David: out there, I would say keep it simple so you don't have to be pondering, what fly should I use?
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  David: The fish are going to eat them. It's just about presentation and getting it
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  David: in front of them, and you'll be rewarded.
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  Marvin: Got it. And so, you know, on the popper front, do you like poppers with lots
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  Marvin: of different faces or do you just kind of, you know, pretty consistently stick
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  Marvin: with kind of that flat popper face?
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  David: Well, you know, you know what? If you're going to use a popper or a popper like
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  David: thing and you can buy all different things, I would I would maybe get a very
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  David: thin popper with sort of a flat face or an angled face.
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  David: Or the one I like the most because I think it's the most versatile is just get a Gurgler.
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  David: Um, and, and all the commercial, uh, fly tying entities and stores,
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  David: they're all carrying gurglers. They're really easy to cast.
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  David: They're not heavy. They make a lot of noise and fish just gobble them up. They're great.
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  Marvin: Yeah. Well, there you go. And it dovetails well with our question from Brenner.
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  Marvin: He wanted to get your thoughts, David, on, you know, good beginner species for
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  Marvin: people to target on the salt with a fly.
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  David: Well, I think a good beginner species, if you're living in the Northeast,
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  David: especially if you're in an area that bluefish frequent, is fish for bluefish.
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  David: And don't worry about the size.
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  David: And I would say if you can be there when there's like cocktail blues,
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  David: like the bluefish from like one to four pounds or one to three pounds, fish for those.
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  David: They they will just they'll eat and they
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  David: eat with the reckless abandon the bluefish get
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  David: bigger they might become a little more selective but
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  David: if you can find schools of bluefish on the feed they will just they will just
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  David: crash anything that you put in front of them it's it's really exciting whether
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  David: it's deep water or or shallow water they they can be you know pretty ferocious
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  David: so um that's That's, that's, that's my,
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  David: that's my, you know, and they range all the way down to Florida.
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  David: I mean, you'll get them there, but you know, if you're fishing in Florida and
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  David: you want a beginner species, um, you know, I think, uh, if you're around when
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  David: there's, uh, maybe Spanish mackerel or, or small jackrabbits,
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  David: that's, uh, another good beginner species.
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  David: If you're down in the South, awful lot of fun.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And so on the bluefish, you know, I know they are kind of hard on terminal
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  Marvin: tackle. You know, what's your kind of terminal tackle setup for those guys?
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  David: For Bluefish, I'll probably tie in a Deceiver in maybe a length of either piano wire.
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  David: It kind of looks like a G-string on a guitar. Or you can get American wire,
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  David: which is like a multi-strand wire inside a plastic sleeve.
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  David: And you can actually tie it onto your fly with a clench knot or a loop knot,
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  David: and it'll work just fine.
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  David: Um uh what i personally do
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  David: uh most of the time because i'm always thinking about other species
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  David: is i'll tie in a hunk of 60 pound uh
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  David: either hard mono or or or fluorocarbon uh
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  David: to my tidbit and uh then tie that with a loop knot to my fly and usually i can
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  David: get one or two bluefish before it gets chewed up but um definitely using um
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  David: uh definitely using uh something like that to protect your leader is a good idea.
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  David: Anything under 30 pounds in a bluefish is going to most likely chop right through it.
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  David: I mean, there's those exceptions where occasionally you can land one on a 15
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  David: or 20 pound tippet, but usually you need something pretty burly to fend off their teeth.
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  Marvin: Yeah, got it. And you know, folks, we love questions at the Articulate Fly and
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  Marvin: we're running out of time because we're going to have our drawings pretty soon.
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  Marvin: And, you know, remember either email or DM me, make David's life simpler.
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  Marvin: And And we've got two great options for you, right? For everyone that sends
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  Marvin: in a question, that's one pool, and we're going to draw from that pool.
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  Marvin: And the winner will get a Rise Fishing Company rod.
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  Marvin: And then if we use your question on one of the On the Salts,
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  Marvin: we're going to put that in a separate fishbowl and draw from that.
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  Marvin: And the winner is going to get a Norvice vice system.
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  Marvin: So pretty cool, right, David?
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  David: I think that's pretty cool. I mean, you know, those guys at Rise,
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  David: they make a really good product, and they're based out of Long Island,
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  David: New York, so they pretty much know what they're doing.
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  David: And Norvice, you know, you've never used true rotary before. It's an experience.
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  Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And I also want to give a shout-out to the folks at Norvice
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  Marvin: for generously sponsoring this series.
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  Marvin: And, David, before I let you go, I know you're also, you know,
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  Marvin: as the seasons are changing, you're in the homestretch of Masters of the Fly.
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  David: Yeah, we have our last episode. We have our last episode on March,
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  David: I think it's 17th, Sunday the 17th with Blaine Chocolate, who is an incredible fly tire.
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  David: And he does a game changer, which I mentioned earlier.
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  David: And it's an incredibly, one, it's an incredible fly to watch being tied.
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  David: And the way they move through the water is so lifelike, you cannot believe it. It's really cool. Cool.
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  David: And of course, I also want to give a shout out to to to God one.
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  David: So you guys are catching your first fish, your first bluefish or whatever species.
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  David: You definitely want to get it logged in. So don't forget to download God one
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  David: and and see what the app can do for you. It's really quite easy.
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  David: You can either do with a photograph, do it with voice or just measure and log
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  David: your fish in manually. It's a really cool thing.
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  Marvin: Yeah, and you will get the cover off the boat here pretty soon.
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  Marvin: You'll be back in your role as chief beta tester, right?
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  David: Oh, yeah, yeah. I can't wait for that. Not much more beta testing going on these days.
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  David: There'll be some announcements coming up, and for those of you who download
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  David: it now, you'll probably a month
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  David: or two from now see something new popping up. But it could be longer.
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  David: I'm just not sure. But it's really an incredible app, really intuitive.
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  David: Very few apps are as intuitive as this one. So I would really encourage everyone to download it.
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  David: And all the data that's on there is yours and is not shared unless you want
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  David: to share it. It's your choice.
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  Marvin: Yeah, and speaking of home stretch, the folks at Norvice, I think they've racked
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  Marvin: up almost all the frequent flyer miles they're going to do this year.
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  Marvin: But if you go to their website at www.nor-vice.com, you'll see the remaining shows on the schedule.
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  Marvin: Most of them are out kind of in the west because it's colder out there longer.
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  Marvin: So their fly show season is a little bit longer out there.
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  Marvin: But check that out. And, you know, folks, if it's warming up where you are,
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  Marvin: you know, get out there and catch a few.
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  Marvin: If it's still kind of cold, tie some flies, go to a fly fishing show,
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  Marvin: get ready for the upcoming season.
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  Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, David.