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S6, Ep 79: Summer Heat and Boat Beers: Fishing the North Platte with Dustin White · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,
• 0:06
  Marvin: and we're back with another On the Water with Dustin White. Dustin, how are you?
• 0:11
  Dustin: Marvin, I'm enjoying a little bit of this cool off that we had.
• 0:15
  Dustin: We've been having some pretty warm temps, but other than that,
• 0:18
  Dustin: no complaints. Enjoying the summer.
• 0:20
  Marvin: Yeah, it's funny you say that, right? I've been recording a bunch of fishing reports tonight,
• 0:24
  Marvin: and here on the East Coast, it's very, very hot and very, very humid,
• 0:28
  Marvin: but it's getting ready to cool off and you're going to actually be the winner
• 0:31
  Marvin: of the most highest temperature in the fishing report realm probably for the next week 10 days.
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  Dustin: Well we're very proud of that award here
• 0:38
  Dustin: i see you've bestowed us with and casper it's been uh yeah it's been pretty
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  Dustin: hot uh we uh we were upper 90s into the hundreds uh over the weekend um we had
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  Dustin: a late afternoon storm to come through today and cooled us off a bit but yeah
• 0:53
  Dustin: we're it's it's piping out here yeah.
• 0:56
  Marvin: It's It's always cool when you're out there, right? Because it's not very human.
• 0:59
  Marvin: It's literally like opening the oven and looking at grandma's cookies, right?
• 1:03
  Dustin: Yeah, exactly. And the overnight temps, they cool off. It's a huge temp swing.
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  Dustin: I think a lot of the folks that come out from back east or friends or family
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  Dustin: of ours, look at those temp swings we get and you're looking like, my goodness,
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  Dustin: it's in the upper 90s, but the evening's dipping down into the 50s.
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  Dustin: Like how does that even happen but pretty common here and
• 1:28
  Dustin: uh yeah so our our mornings are are pretty
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  Dustin: temperate pretty cool and then it gets pretty pretty hot
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  Dustin: throughout the day so a lot of self-managing uh that climate in any way you
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  Dustin: can so layered up a little bit in the morning and then uh you know doing some
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  Dustin: can balls in the river in the afternoon if need be as well so we do the best
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  Dustin: we can uh and enjoy the fishing while we're at it yeah.
• 1:53
  Marvin: So you know how is that translating i think the last time we spoke,
• 1:56
  Marvin: you were on the cusp of having golden stones, uh, hadn't quite dried out enough
• 2:00
  Marvin: to really push the hoppers towards the river.
• 2:03
  Marvin: Um, so what are you seeing on all three, uh, waterways you guys like to fish?
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  Dustin: Yeah. So per typical, this time of year, the big horn is, is pretty mossy.
• 2:15
  Dustin: Um, so it's selecting your shots, kind of shooting that lane through,
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  Dustin: through that moss. It is fishing very, very well.
• 2:24
  Dustin: But again, a lot of moss around. Caddis are kind of the main fare up there in
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  Dustin: the horn right now. PMDs are good.
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  Dustin: Uh, additionally, uh, some, uh, crayfish patterns have, have,
• 2:38
  Dustin: have been good, but again, it is pretty mossy.
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  Dustin: So if folks are up there fishing, uh, just know you're going to be kind of picking
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  Dustin: some, some greenery off of, off your flies, uh, periodically.
• 2:49
  Dustin: So on the reef, uh, we have yellow Sally's coming off.
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  Dustin: We have caddis, uh, and PMDs. I would say that's definitely been our best bug,
• 2:58
  Dustin: uh, of late, uh, hoppers are getting closer and closer to water.
• 3:03
  Dustin: So, um, haven't seen some hoppers on the water, uh, have been seeing some fish
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  Dustin: take them, um, can have some moderate success, um, uh, throwing hoppers.
• 3:12
  Dustin: Uh, I would recommend for folks, if you're, if you're going to be going that
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  Dustin: route, uh, to probably go hopper dropper in all honesty, if you're going to
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  Dustin: pound those banks. But, uh, reef's been good.
• 3:22
  Dustin: They bumped the flows on us again, uh, a few days back. So we're at 3,500 CFS.
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  Dustin: So it's, it's pumping through there pretty good.
• 3:31
  Dustin: It's keeping most of that moss from being too annoying. So everything's good there on that front.
• 3:38
  Dustin: On the mile, our golden stonefly hatch kind of has come and gone.
• 3:43
  Dustin: With those, you know, that temp swing overnight from, you know,
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  Dustin: 90s and the 50s is not crazy.
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  Dustin: But just before we hit this heat wave, we were having overnight lows dip into the 40s.
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  Dustin: And so that kind of stalled a few things out on the mile, um,
• 4:02
  Dustin: just a bit, but, um, it's still fishing phenomenally well.
• 4:05
  Dustin: We just, that, that, that golden stone fly hatch just kind of was an abbreviated stint we'll say.
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  Dustin: Um, but all in all, uh, the miles fishing still phenomenally well,
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  Dustin: um, definitely, uh, nymphing centric, uh, at the moment, unless you get up in
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  Dustin: the canyon, in, then you could still find some fish willing to take a dry,
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  Dustin: even some of those big golden stones, those ternarsis fly.
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  Dustin: So good opportunities there.
• 4:34
  Dustin: But what I personally am pretty excited about is this summer heat and a little
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  Dustin: less wind has provided just perfect conditions for getting out on the reservoirs
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  Dustin: to pull the flats boat around for carp.
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  Dustin: And so we've been bouncing around between Alcova and Pathfinder Reservoir and
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  Dustin: having some really, really fun carp days.
• 4:57
  Marvin: Well, that's cool. Are you tethered to the platform now?
• 5:02
  Dustin: Yeah, well, yeah, I fell off the platform. The client got a little too excited a couple weeks ago.
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  Dustin: So just doing a little better job to stay up there a bit more,
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  Dustin: cementing myself on it. But yeah, it's been good.
• 5:19
  Marvin: Yeah, well, awesome. And we've got a question for you from Captain Jake Meyer,
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  Marvin: and he wanted to know if you bring toilet paper on your boat,
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  Marvin: and if so, what brand do you use?
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  Dustin: Uh i'm not a toilet paper guy in the boat i'll usually
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  Dustin: keep a a lot of napkins or
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  Dustin: even a roll of paper towels as a uh as a
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  Dustin: a an emergency uh plan i my goodness
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  Dustin: i probably brawny i would guess or target brand
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  Dustin: i don't i don't know what it would be but no not not
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  Dustin: a tt on the boat guy you know i usually
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  Dustin: find you just get soggy wet you know even if it's
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  Dustin: in a bag and it just ends up you know that kind of
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  Dustin: mess so um but no don't do that
• 6:00
  Dustin: and you know honestly like we're pretty fortunate you
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  Dustin: know both on the mile in the reef uh to have
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  Dustin: a lot of different public stops uh along the way and you know we have our our
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  Dustin: private lunch huts and in restrooms uh here on the bug we own um quite a bit
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  Dustin: of of riverfront property that's it's private to ourselves so not as big of
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  Dustin: a necessity as it is, uh, on some other places.
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  Dustin: So, um, but yeah, good questions.
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  Marvin: Yeah. Very important. So folks, if you're going to fish with Dustin,
• 6:31
  Marvin: you think you might need toilet paper, you should pack your own,
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  Marvin: um, bring it along, bring it along and put it in a Ziploc.
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  Marvin: 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, whatever's easiest for you.
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  Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly swag,
• 6:48
  Marvin: and then we're going to enter you in a drawing for a half a day of fishing with
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  Marvin: Dustin, and Dustin, like we always do, we wanna give a shout out to a local
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  Marvin: restaurant or watering hole, who've we got this time around?
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  Dustin: Uh very very excited to give a shout
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  Dustin: out to mountain hops uh amazing brewery
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  Dustin: here in town they make some of the best beers um frankly
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  Dustin: just anywhere yeah great folks um they've got a great uh little brew pub and
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  Dustin: uh they've got a killer patio there they're dog friendly family friendly uh
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  Dustin: they often have food trucks live music and um especially um you know when i'm
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  Dustin: I'm fishing on that side of town.
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  Dustin: Uh, it's a great place to stop. Um, and Eric, the owner, uh,
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  Dustin: oftentimes has, has come through in a big favor, uh, um, for me on my floats.
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  Dustin: He's nearby, uh, the, the, uh, one of the floats I do often,
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  Dustin: especially late in the summer and through the fall.
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  Dustin: And so he's, uh, he's, he's bailed me out a few times and ran some beers down to the river.
• 7:50
  Dustin: Um, I, I believe with you and I too, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.
• 7:54
  Marvin: Yeah. You know, we were out there They were fishing in November and we stuck
• 7:57
  Marvin: that really big guy on the bank.
• 8:00
  Dustin: Yeah.
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  Marvin: Right? And then after we took him off, we're like, well, damn,
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  Marvin: we didn't bring any boat beers. And you're like.
• 8:07
  Dustin: Swing and a miss.
• 8:08
  Marvin: Yeah. And so you're like, well, wait a minute. And then like,
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  Marvin: here comes Eric down the hill with a couple of tall boys. I was like,
• 8:14
  Marvin: damn, this is pretty good.
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  Dustin: Yeah. First class service here on the North Platte.
• 8:18
  Marvin: Yeah. So, you know, before I let you go, you know, I know you're,
• 8:22
  Marvin: you're busy and you're actually going to travel back East and do some saltwater fishing.
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  Marvin: But if someone wanted to get on your guide calendar, uh, where can they find you?
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  Dustin: Yeah, you can, uh, reach me, um, a couple of different ways.
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  Dustin: One, my Instagram is at Dustin James white. You could drop me a message there.
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  Dustin: Um, but probably the quickest, easiest way is just to give the shop down at
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  Dustin: the ugly bug, a phone call at area code 3 0 7 2 3 4 6 9 0 5.
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  Dustin: And, uh, they've got access to my calendar and team gets squared away.
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  Marvin: Yeah well there you go well listen folks as i always say yo to yourself to get
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  Marvin: out there and catch a few tight lines everybody tight lines dustin tight.
• 9:02
  Dustin: Lines marvin thanks so.