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Marvin:
Hey folks it's marvin cash the host of the articulate fly and we're back with

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Marvin:
another on the water with dustin white dustin how are you marvin.

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Dustin:
I uh have a little bit of r and r happening right now down in the golden isles

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Dustin:
so i'm uh feeling pretty pretty darn good how about you.

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Marvin:
Yeah i'm just uh sitting here doing what i do been uh been recording all day

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but it's all good but you know for folks that don't know the golden isles are

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you want to let them know it's kind of of like down and like off the coast of

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southeastern georgia yeah.

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Dustin:
Yep southeast georgia up to northeast florida

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and so uh i mean one of my just absolute favorite

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places on the planet and love it to

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death and my uh my wife's family is is

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is from uh this neck of the woods and her folks have uh have a house down on

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on one of the islands so we come down and uh make it a regular uh haunt uh a

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few time throughout the year uh if we're lucky and you get to relax a little

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bit unwind a little bit fish a bit and uh yeah i enjoy it.

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Marvin:
Yeah it's interesting too because the kind of the cool thing about that part

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of the world is if you like to fish and you don't like crowded beaches it's

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a good place to go because all those coastal rivers yeah they dump a bunch of

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silt and people don't like that that are beach people um right and so like you

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know the jekyll river kind of keeps Jekyll Island from being completely overrun with human beings.

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Dustin:
Exactly, exactly. Yeah, it's definitely a place of tranquility and beauty,

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but it's not the Daytona Beach sort of vibe whatsoever. So we love it here.

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Marvin:
Yeah, so you didn't have to put your Jaeger Luge in your checked luggage?

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Dustin:
No, no, no. Definitely didn't have to do that at all.

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Just, uh, just some, uh, some, uh, a pretty light, uh, pack of,

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uh, some clothes, uh, fishing rods, reels, some, some, some light tackle like that.

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And then, uh, uh, a buck or two to read and we're on our way.

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Marvin:
Yeah. So do you want to let folks kind of know about the redfish and the tarpon

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bite, or do you want to kind of update folks on what's going on back home?

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Dustin:
We can we can do both yeah um that's

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the cool thing about uh this area of the country um you

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know it's uh one of my i've been fishing this island

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now for for close to 20 years um it's

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definitely um a a red fish kind of

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just epicenter i mean it's just a

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killer reds fishery um so you

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know whether you uh want to hire a guide uh and

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there's a number in the area that are

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good buds that i would recommend or diy it

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um the reds fishing is is is pretty self-explanatory pretty

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basic um and there's there's a

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ton of great spots that you can hit um

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in either of those formats uh and then

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the really cool thing is about this time of year um it's got

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the the big migratory tarpon that are

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pushing up through uh this year was a a little

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bit rough uh in that uh preceding us

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arriving here there's a tropical storm and uh

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as explained to me by a buddy of mine who's a guy down here really kind

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of went a little screwy with the the bait so none of the fish were really out

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front uh on in you know kind of ocean side and a lot of the flats and that sort

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of thing so a lot of them were back in the those silty rivers uh you described

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about but it it is a substantial push of fish and so uh yeah this year a little bit of a bust but.

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Have uh just really really fallen in love with this place

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and yeah and then there's a ton of other species too so

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it's a it's a really cool place so yeah i've been

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down here the last couple days um but uh had

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uh you know some really productive fishing uh back home in wyoming before we

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came down and here in a couple days when we head back i look forward to some

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some more productive fishing um primarily uh coming back uh most of my trips

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come back are going to to be carping, but,

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uh, we did have, uh, and have had, uh,

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a bunch of productive trout fishing as well.

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Marvin:
Uh, very cool. You were telling me that really the action has been kind of on

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the mile, uh, for the most part for the trout front and that there's been a

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little bit of flux on the reef.

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Dustin:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They, um, they've been raising and dropping our flows, uh, again on the reef.

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Um and so that's made things

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you know day of can make things uh especially

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on the bump when they raise it back up can make things a

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little funky uh obviously on the drop uh it might be a little a little funky

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at first just for a few hours but can really actually supercharge those fish

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um but yeah seems that there's still some some work to do on those valves on

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the dam And so that's, as we understand it,

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kind of what's led to those changes and fluctuations in the flows.

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But yeah, primarily reef has been still PMDs, sallies, and with some caddis mixed in.

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Honestly, the last week, you know, I've been on the mile, caddis,

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caddis, caddis, caddis, caddis.

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Those fish are really really keyed in

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on caddis right now and in fairly sizable size

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i'm fishing you know size 12s uh

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and 14s um you can get by with maybe

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some smaller ones but this this fish are really really keyed in

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on on pretty large caddis right now um lower sections

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and up in the canyon still had some stonefly productivity

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but um that certainly is going to be waning um

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uh pretty rapidly uh but still

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a ton of fish in the system and uh not to

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let the cat out of the bag too much but it's been a bit

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of a brown trout haven um the this year's been a really exciting year in the

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last uh probably two and a half weeks we've seen just a large number of large

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browns um that have kind of pushed up from the reservoir into the river uh pretty

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you know pretty Pretty early considering,

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you know, that we're in July and we've had a pretty big influx of browns in there.

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Marvin:
Well, that's pretty cool. And got a question for you from Chris,

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and this is kind of an interesting one for you.

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He's, yeah, he's planning to come out to your neck of the woods in September,

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and he wants to find good locations where he can camp and that it's close to

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good wade fishing. Yeah.

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Dustin:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. So the gray reefs on the reef itself,

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you'll find BLM camping around the Reds or Pete's Draw are two gray areas on the reef.

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But if you drop a little bit lower, you have the Trapper's Route section that

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has also additionally really, really good camping there on the reef.

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In terms of public camping, that's probably your best bet.

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Although, if you're able to maybe set up a shop there, but maybe venture other places to wade fish.

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Laura, as you get into town in Evansville, there's some really,

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really productive wade fishing opportunities there as well.

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And additionally, Chris, the mile always has free camping and can see some really,

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really fun dry fly action.

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As we kind of mentioned a few moments ago, it's always kind of a roll in the

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ice whether or not those browns are running into the mile.

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But the mile gives you free camping for up to 14 days per site.

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No reservations needed. needed uh just kind of

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show up first come first serve uh but most of

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the mile well it can be a little technical and can be higher gradient um in

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the summer by the time you hit the fall uh they'll be at winter flows and it's

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it's a pretty accessible wade fish there so you got options on the reef trappers

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route section uh but then additionally the mile is going to give you a lot of

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opportunities as well to both camp and wade fish yeah.

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Marvin:
Well there you go and you know folks we love questions on the articulate fly

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you can email them to us or dm us on social media you whatever is easiest for you.

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

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We are drawing for a half a day of fishing with Dustin and Dustin,

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as we always do, we want to pay homage to a local restaurant slash watering

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hole. What do we have on tap this time?

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Dustin:
Yeah, the Sunrise Shopping Plaza slash Bowling Alley did a huge remodel,

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and I think they're calling it Boomtown now.

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But you and I, Marvin, I think in the fall last year, swung by and watched a

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Thursday night football game, had some wings, some good cold drafts that were pretty affordable.

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And so, yeah, love to highlight Boomtown and the Sunrise Lounge that's there

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because, you know, pretty great drinks, fantastic staff,

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and then killer food, too.

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So, and it's conveniently nearby where my wife, Jamie, and I live.

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So, that gets added points for me.

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Marvin:
You only have to cross four lanes of traffic.

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Dustin:
Exactly, exactly.

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Marvin:
Yeah, the food there is great, and I'm a big fan of kind of rustic bars that have buckets of beer.

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Dustin:
Yes, yeah, that's the sort of bar it is. It's a bucket of beer bar,

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and we're in July now, so I can't quite recall what the special they were running

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then, but I do remember that if there was a football game on,

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the wings were only X amounts and the beers were only this much.

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So it's a great spot, great staff.

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We frequented a bunch and are appreciative of them and their services.

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Marvin:
Yeah, it's funny. I think the prices were so good, I thought maybe I was in

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an episode of Hot Tub Time Machine.

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Dustin:
Yeah, this has to be 1987 prices.

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Marvin:
Yeah, it wasn't quite nickel wings, but it was pretty close.

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Dustin:
It was pretty close, yeah. I think they were like dime or quarter wing.

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I mean, they were pretty affordable wings. So, and again, sauce was great.

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Wings were great. Their pizza was fantastic.

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My wife and I get it a bunch. So yeah, it's a good spot for us.

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Marvin:
Yeah. So, you know, you know, put that on the dance card, Chris,

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when you, you come out, when you either, before you head out of town to camp

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or when you come back and you're really hungry and, you know,

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folks as always say, yo, to yourself to get out there and catch a few tight

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lines, everybody tight lines, Dustin.

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Dustin:
Tight lines, Marvin. Thanks so much.