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

Marvin: and we're back with another On the Water with Dustin White. Dustin, how are you?

Dustin: Marvin, I'm enjoying a little bit of this cool off that we had.

Dustin: We've been having some pretty warm temps, but other than that,

Dustin: no complaints. Enjoying the summer.

Marvin: Yeah, it's funny you say that, right? I've been recording a bunch of fishing reports tonight,

Marvin: and here on the East Coast, it's very, very hot and very, very humid,

Marvin: but it's getting ready to cool off and you're going to actually be the winner

Marvin: of the most highest temperature in the fishing report realm probably for the next week 10 days.

Dustin: Well we're very proud of that award here

Dustin: i see you've bestowed us with and casper it's been uh yeah it's been pretty

Dustin: hot uh we uh we were upper 90s into the hundreds uh over the weekend um we had

Dustin: a late afternoon storm to come through today and cooled us off a bit but yeah

Dustin: we're it's it's piping out here yeah.

Marvin: It's It's always cool when you're out there, right? Because it's not very human.

Marvin: It's literally like opening the oven and looking at grandma's cookies, right?

Dustin: Yeah, exactly. And the overnight temps, they cool off. It's a huge temp swing.

Dustin: I think a lot of the folks that come out from back east or friends or family

Dustin: of ours, look at those temp swings we get and you're looking like, my goodness,

Dustin: it's in the upper 90s, but the evening's dipping down into the 50s.

Dustin: Like how does that even happen but pretty common here and

Dustin: uh yeah so our our mornings are are pretty

Dustin: temperate pretty cool and then it gets pretty pretty hot

Dustin: throughout the day so a lot of self-managing uh that climate in any way you

Dustin: can so layered up a little bit in the morning and then uh you know doing some

Dustin: can balls in the river in the afternoon if need be as well so we do the best

Dustin: we can uh and enjoy the fishing while we're at it yeah.

Marvin: So you know how is that translating i think the last time we spoke,

Marvin: you were on the cusp of having golden stones, uh, hadn't quite dried out enough

Marvin: to really push the hoppers towards the river.

Marvin: Um, so what are you seeing on all three, uh, waterways you guys like to fish?

Dustin: Yeah. So per typical, this time of year, the big horn is, is pretty mossy.

Dustin: Um, so it's selecting your shots, kind of shooting that lane through,

Dustin: through that moss. It is fishing very, very well.

Dustin: But again, a lot of moss around. Caddis are kind of the main fare up there in

Dustin: the horn right now. PMDs are good.

Dustin: Uh, additionally, uh, some, uh, crayfish patterns have, have,

Dustin: have been good, but again, it is pretty mossy.

Dustin: So if folks are up there fishing, uh, just know you're going to be kind of picking

Dustin: some, some greenery off of, off your flies, uh, periodically.

Dustin: So on the reef, uh, we have yellow Sally's coming off.

Dustin: We have caddis, uh, and PMDs. I would say that's definitely been our best bug,

Dustin: uh, of late, uh, hoppers are getting closer and closer to water.

Dustin: So, um, haven't seen some hoppers on the water, uh, have been seeing some fish

Dustin: take them, um, can have some moderate success, um, uh, throwing hoppers.

Dustin: Uh, I would recommend for folks, if you're, if you're going to be going that

Dustin: route, uh, to probably go hopper dropper in all honesty, if you're going to

Dustin: pound those banks. But, uh, reef's been good.

Dustin: They bumped the flows on us again, uh, a few days back. So we're at 3,500 CFS.

Dustin: So it's, it's pumping through there pretty good.

Dustin: It's keeping most of that moss from being too annoying. So everything's good there on that front.

Dustin: On the mile, our golden stonefly hatch kind of has come and gone.

Dustin: With those, you know, that temp swing overnight from, you know,

Dustin: 90s and the 50s is not crazy.

Dustin: But just before we hit this heat wave, we were having overnight lows dip into the 40s.

Dustin: And so that kind of stalled a few things out on the mile, um,

Dustin: just a bit, but, um, it's still fishing phenomenally well.

Dustin: We just, that, that, that golden stone fly hatch just kind of was an abbreviated stint we'll say.

Dustin: Um, but all in all, uh, the miles fishing still phenomenally well,

Dustin: um, definitely, uh, nymphing centric, uh, at the moment, unless you get up in

Dustin: the canyon, in, then you could still find some fish willing to take a dry,

Dustin: even some of those big golden stones, those ternarsis fly.

Dustin: So good opportunities there.

Dustin: But what I personally am pretty excited about is this summer heat and a little

Dustin: less wind has provided just perfect conditions for getting out on the reservoirs

Dustin: to pull the flats boat around for carp.

Dustin: And so we've been bouncing around between Alcova and Pathfinder Reservoir and

Dustin: having some really, really fun carp days.

Marvin: Well, that's cool. Are you tethered to the platform now?

Dustin: Yeah, well, yeah, I fell off the platform. The client got a little too excited a couple weeks ago.

Dustin: So just doing a little better job to stay up there a bit more,

Dustin: cementing myself on it. But yeah, it's been good.

Marvin: Yeah, well, awesome. And we've got a question for you from Captain Jake Meyer,

Marvin: and he wanted to know if you bring toilet paper on your boat,

Marvin: and if so, what brand do you use?

Dustin: Uh i'm not a toilet paper guy in the boat i'll usually

Dustin: keep a a lot of napkins or

Dustin: even a roll of paper towels as a uh as a

Dustin: a an emergency uh plan i my goodness

Dustin: i probably brawny i would guess or target brand

Dustin: i don't i don't know what it would be but no not not

Dustin: a tt on the boat guy you know i usually

Dustin: find you just get soggy wet you know even if it's

Dustin: in a bag and it just ends up you know that kind of

Dustin: mess so um but no don't do that

Dustin: and you know honestly like we're pretty fortunate you

Dustin: know both on the mile in the reef uh to have

Dustin: a lot of different public stops uh along the way and you know we have our our

Dustin: private lunch huts and in restrooms uh here on the bug we own um quite a bit

Dustin: of of riverfront property that's it's private to ourselves so not as big of

Dustin: a necessity as it is, uh, on some other places.

Dustin: So, um, but yeah, good questions.

Marvin: Yeah. Very important. So folks, if you're going to fish with Dustin,

Marvin: you think you might need toilet paper, you should pack your own,

Marvin: um, bring it along, bring it along and put it in a Ziploc.

Marvin: And, you know, folks, we love questions on the articulate fly.

Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media, whatever's easiest for you.

Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly swag,

Marvin: and then we're going to enter you in a drawing for a half a day of fishing with

Marvin: Dustin, and Dustin, like we always do, we wanna give a shout out to a local

Marvin: restaurant or watering hole, who've we got this time around?

Dustin: Uh very very excited to give a shout

Dustin: out to mountain hops uh amazing brewery

Dustin: here in town they make some of the best beers um frankly

Dustin: just anywhere yeah great folks um they've got a great uh little brew pub and

Dustin: uh they've got a killer patio there they're dog friendly family friendly uh

Dustin: they often have food trucks live music and um especially um you know when i'm

Dustin: I'm fishing on that side of town.

Dustin: Uh, it's a great place to stop. Um, and Eric, the owner, uh,

Dustin: oftentimes has, has come through in a big favor, uh, um, for me on my floats.

Dustin: He's nearby, uh, the, the, uh, one of the floats I do often,

Dustin: especially late in the summer and through the fall.

Dustin: And so he's, uh, he's, he's bailed me out a few times and ran some beers down to the river.

Dustin: Um, I, I believe with you and I too, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

Marvin: Yeah. You know, we were out there They were fishing in November and we stuck

Marvin: that really big guy on the bank.

Dustin: Yeah.

Marvin: Right? And then after we took him off, we're like, well, damn,

Marvin: we didn't bring any boat beers. And you're like.

Dustin: Swing and a miss.

Marvin: Yeah. And so you're like, well, wait a minute. And then like,

Marvin: here comes Eric down the hill with a couple of tall boys. I was like,

Marvin: damn, this is pretty good.

Dustin: Yeah. First class service here on the North Platte.

Marvin: Yeah. So, you know, before I let you go, you know, I know you're,

Marvin: you're busy and you're actually going to travel back East and do some saltwater fishing.

Marvin: But if someone wanted to get on your guide calendar, uh, where can they find you?

Dustin: Yeah, you can, uh, reach me, um, a couple of different ways.

Dustin: One, my Instagram is at Dustin James white. You could drop me a message there.

Dustin: Um, but probably the quickest, easiest way is just to give the shop down at

Dustin: the ugly bug, a phone call at area code 3 0 7 2 3 4 6 9 0 5.

Dustin: And, uh, they've got access to my calendar and team gets squared away.

Marvin: Yeah well there you go well listen folks as i always say yo to yourself to get

Marvin: out there and catch a few tight lines everybody tight lines dustin tight.

Dustin: Lines marvin thanks so.