Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,

Marvin: and we're back with the season's inaugural On the Water with Dustin White. How are you, Dustin?

Dustin: Marvin, doing great. A little chilly today here in Wyoming, so I got off the

Dustin: water and had to warm up a little bit, but all is well.

Marvin: Yeah, no, it's kind of crazy. I looked at your weather forecast and I saw your Instagram feed.

Marvin: It's like you got snow, then you got rain, then you got snow and looks like

Marvin: you've got a grim probably three or four days in front of you.

Marvin: But after that, it's going to kind of level out, right?

Dustin: Yeah, and a lot of that's kind of, you know, I hate to say part of the course,

Dustin: but this time of the year, you just don't know quite where you're going to get.

Dustin: And so, yeah, we're doing a little ping pong back and forth between,

Dustin: you know, gorgeous, you know, sunny days and, you know, warm weather to,

Dustin: you know, or, you know, wondering what month we're actually in.

Dustin: And, uh, so, uh, yeah, we're in the little bit of, uh, the rough,

Dustin: uh, some rough systems coming through a lot of wind, uh, some chilly weather,

Dustin: but, uh, we're looking forward to, um, the, the season warming up for us, uh, tech wise.

Marvin: Yeah. And you were telling me that you've actually gotten, you know,

Marvin: as opposed to kind of being a more traditional kind of early season nymph bike,

Marvin: you've been, you've had some pretty good dry fly fishing and some pretty good

Marvin: streamer fishing. And you're telling me the miles been fishing pretty well.

Dustin: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, everything's, you know, been very, very, very,

Dustin: very good thus far, kind of on all fronts.

Dustin: And yeah, as you said, typically, you know, we're not having too many streamer

Dustin: days or dry fly days this early.

Dustin: A lot of our trips, you know, tend to, you know, center around nymphing.

Dustin: But conditions have kind of lined themselves up that we've been having some

Dustin: good blue wing hatches in our afternoon that the fish are willing to look up for.

Dustin: We've had with this kind of cloudy skies and intermittent weather systems coming

Dustin: in, it's providing for some good streamer opportunities for us.

Dustin: And with the mild winter that we had, you know, our reservoirs didn't stay frozen

Dustin: or locked up as long as they typically do.

Dustin: So it seems that that is kind of encouraged a lot of the migratory fish that

Dustin: push up out of Pathfinder Reservoir into the mile to start eking up into the

Dustin: system earlier than normal.

Dustin: So, uh, we've been super, super happy, super grateful, um, for what we've been

Dustin: seeing so far this spring.

Marvin: Uh, very, very cool. And, you know, we had, we decided for, for this year's

Marvin: fishing report series that we wanted to feature kind of local bars and,

Marvin: uh, restaurants in Casper.

Marvin: Cause to me, that's one of the cool things about coming to Casper is you've

Marvin: got kind of all these, uh, nifty places to eat.

Marvin: And I know certainly one of my favorite places is Frank's butcher shop.

Marvin: You want to tell folks a little bit more about Frank's?

Dustin: Yeah, love Frank's. Frank's is hands down one of my favorite places to haunt, as we say.

Dustin: But yeah, it's a perfect place to get off the water. Frank's,

Dustin: they had historically had their own slaughterhouse, raised their own beef.

Dustin: And then a few years ago, probably just about three years ago,

Dustin: opened up a butcher shop and started selling really quality products,

Dustin: but not just meat that folks can come in and pick out whatever cuts of meat they'd like.

Dustin: But they have all the fixings that go with it, cheeses and mustards,

Dustin: and they have a really impressive liquor selection.

Dustin: But really, what makes them stand out from a run-of-the-mill butcher shop is

Dustin: they've got a little kind of hole-in-the-wall bar and limited-menu restaurant

Dustin: in the corner with community-style seating.

Dustin: And oh my goodness, like from, you know, if you want to hill or bloody Mary,

Dustin: some really creative, refreshing cocktails, it's, it's phenomenal.

Dustin: But then their, their food serving their meat and their products they have with,

Dustin: with some really, really just fantastic pairings is, is, is dynamite and not all that, that pricey.

Dustin: I mean, on a guide income, we can inhabit it quite a bit.

Dustin: So it's a great spot right on CYA Avenue, just about halfway between town and

Dustin: or between our shop downtown and on the way out to the lodge.

Dustin: So if you're traveling back and forth from the Crazy Rainbow Lodge or the Edmubug

Dustin: Fly Shop downtown, you got to drive five francs to get to one or the other.

Dustin: And I frequently detour my journey to pull into the lot there to hang with the good folks there.

Marvin: Yeah, I would say I give two thumbs up to the Bloody Marys, which are a meal unto themselves.

Marvin: And then also the beef tenderloin quesadilla is pretty killer, too.

Dustin: Ooh, yeah, yeah. The quesadilla is great. My go-to order typically is the bartender's

Dustin: burger. Burger, you know, it's it's their cut of beef with cream cheese,

Dustin: jalapenos and like a cranberry jam that that pairing is just phenomenal.

Dustin: I do have to ask, though, Marvin, with with your Bloody Mary,

Dustin: do you go the straight vodka or the pickle vodka with yours?

Marvin: I think I've probably done straight vodka. I don't know.

Marvin: I kind of you know, it's always funny because on the second one,

Marvin: they're like, do you want all the garnish? I was like, of course I do. Right.

Dustin: Yeah, exactly.

Marvin: Why wouldn't I? And I also, I think I give high marks to places out West where

Marvin: you, you have like a, you have a drive-through liquor store,

Marvin: so you can kind of drive through, pick up your steaks and just,

Marvin: they'll put it right in the back of the truck for you.

Dustin: Yeah, yeah. It's a great spot with great folks that run it. It's a special spot.

Marvin: Yeah. And so I'll drop a link to that in the show notes, folks.

Marvin: And if you don't live in Wyoming, they ship their beef all over the country.

Marvin: So you ought to check it out.

Marvin: Killer tomahawk ribeyes. And, you know, of course, Dustin, you hang your hat at the ugly bug.

Marvin: You want to tell folks, you know, where it is, where to find you, hours.

Marvin: And if you've got any kind of cool shop stuff going on, you want to kind of

Marvin: let folks know about that too?

Dustin: Absolutely. Yeah, we're at 240 South Center Street in downtown Casper, Wyoming.

Dustin: Shop hours, we actually have just started our summer hours now.

Dustin: So we're open seven days a week.

Dustin: Shop opens up at 9 a.m.

Dustin: Monday through Friday, we're open till 5.30. And then Saturday and Sunday,

Dustin: we're open till 4 o'clock.

Dustin: And so we're a one-stop shop that helps folks get outfitted on whatever their

Dustin: fishing journey takes them,

Dustin: whether that's some folks prepping to fish the North Platte or Bighorn here

Dustin: in central Wyoming. We have a guide service.

Dustin: Obviously, we offer that. We have lodging. But then we also help folks get set

Dustin: up with destination travel as well.

Dustin: So we're kind of a one-stop shop for whatever folks who want. month.

Dustin: You can check us out online actually at crazyrainbow.net and you'll be able

Dustin: to find all of the things you're looking for there.

Marvin: Well, there you go. I'll drop all that stuff in the show notes.

Marvin: And you know, folks, shoot us questions because we love them.

Marvin: We'll be working on prizes and all that good stuff. We'll probably announce

Marvin: that on the next episode.

Marvin: And even though it's probably a better day to stay inside and drink and watch

Marvin: TV, you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.

Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Dustin.

Dustin: Tight lines, Marvin. Thanks so much.