Marvin: Hey folks it's marvin cash the host of the articulate fly and we're back with
Marvin: another on the water with dustin white dustin how are you marvin.
Dustin: I uh have a little bit of r and r happening right now down in the golden isles
Dustin: so i'm uh feeling pretty pretty darn good how about you.
Marvin: Yeah i'm just uh sitting here doing what i do been uh been recording all day
Marvin: but it's all good but you know for folks that don't know the golden isles are
Marvin: you want to let them know it's kind of of like down and like off the coast of
Marvin: southeastern georgia yeah.
Dustin: Yep southeast georgia up to northeast florida
Dustin: and so uh i mean one of my just absolute favorite
Dustin: places on the planet and love it to
Dustin: death and my uh my wife's family is is
Dustin: is from uh this neck of the woods and her folks have uh have a house down on
Dustin: on one of the islands so we come down and uh make it a regular uh haunt uh a
Dustin: few time throughout the year uh if we're lucky and you get to relax a little
Dustin: bit unwind a little bit fish a bit and uh yeah i enjoy it.
Marvin: Yeah it's interesting too because the kind of the cool thing about that part
Marvin: of the world is if you like to fish and you don't like crowded beaches it's
Marvin: a good place to go because all those coastal rivers yeah they dump a bunch of
Marvin: silt and people don't like that that are beach people um right and so like you
Marvin: know the jekyll river kind of keeps Jekyll Island from being completely overrun with human beings.
Dustin: Exactly, exactly. Yeah, it's definitely a place of tranquility and beauty,
Dustin: but it's not the Daytona Beach sort of vibe whatsoever. So we love it here.
Marvin: Yeah, so you didn't have to put your Jaeger Luge in your checked luggage?
Dustin: No, no, no. Definitely didn't have to do that at all.
Dustin: Just, uh, just some, uh, some, uh, a pretty light, uh, pack of,
Dustin: uh, some clothes, uh, fishing rods, reels, some, some, some light tackle like that.
Dustin: And then, uh, uh, a buck or two to read and we're on our way.
Marvin: Yeah. So do you want to let folks kind of know about the redfish and the tarpon
Marvin: bite, or do you want to kind of update folks on what's going on back home?
Dustin: We can we can do both yeah um that's
Dustin: the cool thing about uh this area of the country um you
Dustin: know it's uh one of my i've been fishing this island
Dustin: now for for close to 20 years um it's
Dustin: definitely um a a red fish kind of
Dustin: just epicenter i mean it's just a
Dustin: killer reds fishery um so you
Dustin: know whether you uh want to hire a guide uh and
Dustin: there's a number in the area that are
Dustin: good buds that i would recommend or diy it
Dustin: um the reds fishing is is is pretty self-explanatory pretty
Dustin: basic um and there's there's a
Dustin: ton of great spots that you can hit um
Dustin: in either of those formats uh and then
Dustin: the really cool thing is about this time of year um it's got
Dustin: the the big migratory tarpon that are
Dustin: pushing up through uh this year was a a little
Dustin: bit rough uh in that uh preceding us
Dustin: arriving here there's a tropical storm and uh
Dustin: as explained to me by a buddy of mine who's a guy down here really kind
Dustin: of went a little screwy with the the bait so none of the fish were really out
Dustin: front uh on in you know kind of ocean side and a lot of the flats and that sort
Dustin: of thing so a lot of them were back in the those silty rivers uh you described
Dustin: about but it it is a substantial push of fish and so uh yeah this year a little bit of a bust but.
Dustin: Have uh just really really fallen in love with this place
Dustin: and yeah and then there's a ton of other species too so
Dustin: it's a it's a really cool place so yeah i've been
Dustin: down here the last couple days um but uh had
Dustin: uh you know some really productive fishing uh back home in wyoming before we
Dustin: came down and here in a couple days when we head back i look forward to some
Dustin: some more productive fishing um primarily uh coming back uh most of my trips
Dustin: come back are going to to be carping, but,
Dustin: uh, we did have, uh, and have had, uh,
Dustin: a bunch of productive trout fishing as well.
Marvin: Uh, very cool. You were telling me that really the action has been kind of on
Marvin: the mile, uh, for the most part for the trout front and that there's been a
Marvin: little bit of flux on the reef.
Dustin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They, um, they've been raising and dropping our flows, uh, again on the reef.
Dustin: Um and so that's made things
Dustin: you know day of can make things uh especially
Dustin: on the bump when they raise it back up can make things a
Dustin: little funky uh obviously on the drop uh it might be a little a little funky
Dustin: at first just for a few hours but can really actually supercharge those fish
Dustin: um but yeah seems that there's still some some work to do on those valves on
Dustin: the dam And so that's, as we understand it,
Dustin: kind of what's led to those changes and fluctuations in the flows.
Dustin: But yeah, primarily reef has been still PMDs, sallies, and with some caddis mixed in.
Dustin: Honestly, the last week, you know, I've been on the mile, caddis,
Dustin: caddis, caddis, caddis, caddis.
Dustin: Those fish are really really keyed in
Dustin: on caddis right now and in fairly sizable size
Dustin: i'm fishing you know size 12s uh
Dustin: and 14s um you can get by with maybe
Dustin: some smaller ones but this this fish are really really keyed in
Dustin: on on pretty large caddis right now um lower sections
Dustin: and up in the canyon still had some stonefly productivity
Dustin: but um that certainly is going to be waning um
Dustin: uh pretty rapidly uh but still
Dustin: a ton of fish in the system and uh not to
Dustin: let the cat out of the bag too much but it's been a bit
Dustin: of a brown trout haven um the this year's been a really exciting year in the
Dustin: last uh probably two and a half weeks we've seen just a large number of large
Dustin: browns um that have kind of pushed up from the reservoir into the river uh pretty
Dustin: you know pretty Pretty early considering,
Dustin: you know, that we're in July and we've had a pretty big influx of browns in there.
Marvin: Well, that's pretty cool. And got a question for you from Chris,
Marvin: and this is kind of an interesting one for you.
Marvin: He's, yeah, he's planning to come out to your neck of the woods in September,
Marvin: and he wants to find good locations where he can camp and that it's close to
Marvin: good wade fishing. Yeah.
Dustin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. So the gray reefs on the reef itself,
Dustin: you'll find BLM camping around the Reds or Pete's Draw are two gray areas on the reef.
Dustin: But if you drop a little bit lower, you have the Trapper's Route section that
Dustin: has also additionally really, really good camping there on the reef.
Dustin: In terms of public camping, that's probably your best bet.
Dustin: Although, if you're able to maybe set up a shop there, but maybe venture other places to wade fish.
Dustin: Laura, as you get into town in Evansville, there's some really,
Dustin: really productive wade fishing opportunities there as well.
Dustin: And additionally, Chris, the mile always has free camping and can see some really,
Dustin: really fun dry fly action.
Dustin: As we kind of mentioned a few moments ago, it's always kind of a roll in the
Dustin: ice whether or not those browns are running into the mile.
Dustin: But the mile gives you free camping for up to 14 days per site.
Dustin: No reservations needed. needed uh just kind of
Dustin: show up first come first serve uh but most of
Dustin: the mile well it can be a little technical and can be higher gradient um in
Dustin: the summer by the time you hit the fall uh they'll be at winter flows and it's
Dustin: it's a pretty accessible wade fish there so you got options on the reef trappers
Dustin: route section uh but then additionally the mile is going to give you a lot of
Dustin: opportunities as well to both camp and wade fish yeah.
Marvin: Well there you go and you know folks we love questions on the articulate fly
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Marvin: We are drawing for a half a day of fishing with Dustin and Dustin,
Marvin: as we always do, we want to pay homage to a local restaurant slash watering
Marvin: hole. What do we have on tap this time?
Dustin: Yeah, the Sunrise Shopping Plaza slash Bowling Alley did a huge remodel,
Dustin: and I think they're calling it Boomtown now.
Dustin: But you and I, Marvin, I think in the fall last year, swung by and watched a
Dustin: Thursday night football game, had some wings, some good cold drafts that were pretty affordable.
Dustin: And so, yeah, love to highlight Boomtown and the Sunrise Lounge that's there
Dustin: because, you know, pretty great drinks, fantastic staff,
Dustin: and then killer food, too.
Dustin: So, and it's conveniently nearby where my wife, Jamie, and I live.
Dustin: So, that gets added points for me.
Marvin: You only have to cross four lanes of traffic.
Dustin: Exactly, exactly.
Marvin: Yeah, the food there is great, and I'm a big fan of kind of rustic bars that have buckets of beer.
Dustin: Yes, yeah, that's the sort of bar it is. It's a bucket of beer bar,
Dustin: and we're in July now, so I can't quite recall what the special they were running
Dustin: then, but I do remember that if there was a football game on,
Dustin: the wings were only X amounts and the beers were only this much.
Dustin: So it's a great spot, great staff.
Dustin: We frequented a bunch and are appreciative of them and their services.
Marvin: Yeah, it's funny. I think the prices were so good, I thought maybe I was in
Marvin: an episode of Hot Tub Time Machine.
Dustin: Yeah, this has to be 1987 prices.
Marvin: Yeah, it wasn't quite nickel wings, but it was pretty close.
Dustin: It was pretty close, yeah. I think they were like dime or quarter wing.
Dustin: I mean, they were pretty affordable wings. So, and again, sauce was great.
Dustin: Wings were great. Their pizza was fantastic.
Dustin: My wife and I get it a bunch. So yeah, it's a good spot for us.
Marvin: Yeah. So, you know, you know, put that on the dance card, Chris,
Marvin: when you, you come out, when you either, before you head out of town to camp
Marvin: or when you come back and you're really hungry and, you know,
Marvin: folks as always say, yo, to yourself to get out there and catch a few tight
Marvin: lines, everybody tight lines, Dustin.
Dustin: Tight lines, Marvin. Thanks so much.