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S6, Ep 47: From Chilled Streams to Chilling at Frank's: Dustin White's Guide to Early Spring in Wyoming · 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 the season's inaugural On the Water with Dustin White. How are you, Dustin?
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  Dustin: Marvin, doing great. A little chilly today here in Wyoming, so I got off the
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  Dustin: water and had to warm up a little bit, but all is well.
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  Marvin: Yeah, no, it's kind of crazy. I looked at your weather forecast and I saw your Instagram feed.
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  Marvin: It's like you got snow, then you got rain, then you got snow and looks like
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  Marvin: you've got a grim probably three or four days in front of you.
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  Marvin: But after that, it's going to kind of level out, right?
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  Dustin: Yeah, and a lot of that's kind of, you know, I hate to say part of the course,
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  Dustin: but this time of the year, you just don't know quite where you're going to get.
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  Dustin: And so, yeah, we're doing a little ping pong back and forth between,
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  Dustin: you know, gorgeous, you know, sunny days and, you know, warm weather to,
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  Dustin: you know, or, you know, wondering what month we're actually in.
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  Dustin: And, uh, so, uh, yeah, we're in the little bit of, uh, the rough,
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  Dustin: uh, some rough systems coming through a lot of wind, uh, some chilly weather,
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  Dustin: but, uh, we're looking forward to, um, the, the season warming up for us, uh, tech wise.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And you were telling me that you've actually gotten, you know,
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  Marvin: as opposed to kind of being a more traditional kind of early season nymph bike,
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  Marvin: you've been, you've had some pretty good dry fly fishing and some pretty good
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  Marvin: streamer fishing. And you're telling me the miles been fishing pretty well.
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  Dustin: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everything's, you know, been very, very, very,
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  Dustin: very good thus far, kind of on all fronts.
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  Dustin: And yeah, as you said, typically, you know, we're not having too many streamer
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  Dustin: days or dry fly days this early.
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  Dustin: A lot of our trips, you know, tend to, you know, center around nymphing.
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  Dustin: But conditions have kind of lined themselves up that we've been having some
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  Dustin: good blue wing hatches in our afternoon that the fish are willing to look up for.
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  Dustin: We've had with this kind of cloudy skies and intermittent weather systems coming
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  Dustin: in, it's providing for some good streamer opportunities for us.
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  Dustin: And with the mild winter that we had, you know, our reservoirs didn't stay frozen
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  Dustin: or locked up as long as they typically do.
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  Dustin: So it seems that that is kind of encouraged a lot of the migratory fish that
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  Dustin: push up out of Pathfinder Reservoir into the mile to start eking up into the
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  Dustin: system earlier than normal.
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  Dustin: So, uh, we've been super, super happy, super grateful, um, for what we've been
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  Dustin: seeing so far this spring.
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  Marvin: Uh, very, very cool. And, you know, we had, we decided for, for this year's
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  Marvin: fishing report series that we wanted to feature kind of local bars and,
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  Marvin: uh, restaurants in Casper.
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  Marvin: Cause to me, that's one of the cool things about coming to Casper is you've
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  Marvin: got kind of all these, uh, nifty places to eat.
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  Marvin: And I know certainly one of my favorite places is Frank's butcher shop.
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  Marvin: You want to tell folks a little bit more about Frank's?
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  Dustin: Yeah, love Frank's. Frank's is hands down one of my favorite places to haunt, as we say.
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  Dustin: But yeah, it's a perfect place to get off the water. Frank's,
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  Dustin: they had historically had their own slaughterhouse, raised their own beef.
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  Dustin: And then a few years ago, probably just about three years ago,
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  Dustin: opened up a butcher shop and started selling really quality products,
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  Dustin: but not just meat that folks can come in and pick out whatever cuts of meat they'd like.
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  Dustin: But they have all the fixings that go with it, cheeses and mustards,
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  Dustin: and they have a really impressive liquor selection.
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  Dustin: But really, what makes them stand out from a run-of-the-mill butcher shop is
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  Dustin: they've got a little kind of hole-in-the-wall bar and limited-menu restaurant
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  Dustin: in the corner with community-style seating.
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  Dustin: And oh my goodness, like from, you know, if you want to hill or bloody Mary,
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  Dustin: some really creative, refreshing cocktails, it's, it's phenomenal.
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  Dustin: But then their, their food serving their meat and their products they have with,
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  Dustin: with some really, really just fantastic pairings is, is, is dynamite and not all that, that pricey.
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  Dustin: I mean, on a guide income, we can inhabit it quite a bit.
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  Dustin: So it's a great spot right on CYA Avenue, just about halfway between town and
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  Dustin: or between our shop downtown and on the way out to the lodge.
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  Dustin: So if you're traveling back and forth from the Crazy Rainbow Lodge or the Edmubug
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  Dustin: Fly Shop downtown, you got to drive five francs to get to one or the other.
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  Dustin: And I frequently detour my journey to pull into the lot there to hang with the good folks there.
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  Marvin: Yeah, I would say I give two thumbs up to the Bloody Marys, which are a meal unto themselves.
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  Marvin: And then also the beef tenderloin quesadilla is pretty killer, too.
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  Dustin: Ooh, yeah, yeah. The quesadilla is great. My go-to order typically is the bartender's
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  Dustin: burger. Burger, you know, it's it's their cut of beef with cream cheese,
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  Dustin: jalapenos and like a cranberry jam that that pairing is just phenomenal.
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  Dustin: I do have to ask, though, Marvin, with with your Bloody Mary,
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  Dustin: do you go the straight vodka or the pickle vodka with yours?
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  Marvin: I think I've probably done straight vodka. I don't know.
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  Marvin: I kind of you know, it's always funny because on the second one,
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  Marvin: they're like, do you want all the garnish? I was like, of course I do. Right.
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  Dustin: Yeah, exactly.
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  Marvin: Why wouldn't I? And I also, I think I give high marks to places out West where
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  Marvin: you, you have like a, you have a drive-through liquor store,
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  Marvin: so you can kind of drive through, pick up your steaks and just,
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  Marvin: they'll put it right in the back of the truck for you.
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  Dustin: Yeah, yeah. It's a great spot with great folks that run it. It's a special spot.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And so I'll drop a link to that in the show notes, folks.
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  Marvin: And if you don't live in Wyoming, they ship their beef all over the country.
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  Marvin: So you ought to check it out.
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  Marvin: Killer tomahawk ribeyes. And, you know, of course, Dustin, you hang your hat at the ugly bug.
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  Marvin: You want to tell folks, you know, where it is, where to find you, hours.
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  Marvin: And if you've got any kind of cool shop stuff going on, you want to kind of
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  Marvin: let folks know about that too?
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  Dustin: Absolutely. Yeah, we're at 240 South Center Street in downtown Casper, Wyoming.
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  Dustin: Shop hours, we actually have just started our summer hours now.
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  Dustin: So we're open seven days a week.
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  Dustin: Shop opens up at 9 a.m.
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  Dustin: Monday through Friday, we're open till 5.30. And then Saturday and Sunday,
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  Dustin: we're open till 4 o'clock.
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  Dustin: And so we're a one-stop shop that helps folks get outfitted on whatever their
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  Dustin: fishing journey takes them,
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  Dustin: whether that's some folks prepping to fish the North Platte or Bighorn here
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  Dustin: in central Wyoming. We have a guide service.
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  Dustin: Obviously, we offer that. We have lodging. But then we also help folks get set
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  Dustin: up with destination travel as well.
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  Dustin: So we're kind of a one-stop shop for whatever folks who want. month.
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  Dustin: You can check us out online actually at crazyrainbow.net and you'll be able
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  Dustin: to find all of the things you're looking for there.
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  Marvin: Well, there you go. I'll drop all that stuff in the show notes.
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  Marvin: And you know, folks, shoot us questions because we love them.
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  Marvin: We'll be working on prizes and all that good stuff. We'll probably announce
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  Marvin: that on the next episode.
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  Marvin: And even though it's probably a better day to stay inside and drink and watch
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  Marvin: TV, you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.
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  Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Dustin.
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  Dustin: Tight lines, Marvin. Thanks so much.