Welcome to CJ's Real Southern podcast.

I'm your host, Chad Johnson, fly fishing guide, storyteller, and Southern Soul through and through.

From the front porch to the river banks, this podcast is going to be about connection, friends friends and maybe learning a trick or two about

trophy fishing so grab a sweet tea tie on your favorite fly and let's go fishing how we doing guys

today we have mr morgan gus from diamond state fly shop to give us a fishing report for the month of

july um figure that one out yeah we figured that one out and so uh we're going to go ahead and get

started how we doing today mr morgan good how are you Chad? Good. What do we got going on here?

So, month of July, starting on the White River in the Norfolk River, going to see

sulfur's.

Sulfur is going to be a big player.

And we're also going to kind of transition into hopper fishing.

So a lot of dry fly opportunities, top water opportunities. Yep. Yep. Hopper morning,

sulfur evenings kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. As we get later into July, I like to

kind of stick a little bit more to those hopper patterns if I can. Yes. Those early July fish can get

a little worked over on the sulfurs. They can. Yeah. Although it can still be really good. Oh, no, obviously. And you can find fresh fish and stuff. But if you get away from where those bugs are coming off so big, the hopper bite's good. Yes, exactly. I like to have a couple rods in my boat. Like a dry fly rod, hopper rod, maybe a hopper dropper rod. I fish that way today, yeah. And then kind of pounding banks with nymphs in the afternoon, too. Yep. Girdle bugs, that type thing. Yeah, throw a dropper off the bottom of it. Usually a sulfur nymph or something. Yep. Fetheasant tail. Nothing special. Yeah. Branchy. Yeah. Yeah. That can be really good, really effective. Yep. Super fun. So kind of a lot to do. There is a lot. Like on the white. Yeah. You know, in Norfolk. Yeah. I think it's one. It was kind of transitioning. You can do one or the other.

You can play. Like on the white. Yeah. You know, in Norfolk. Yeah. I think it's one.

It's kind of transitioning. You can do one or the other. You can play with those more delicate drives. Mm-hmm. Or you can go slop, phone along the banks. With us, depending on our customers. Yeah. A lot of times. Or just what I want to do, you know. I mean, obviously. Sometimes that's kind of nice to get down the river.

And what the weather's asking.

And water conditions and stuff like that too. But it looks like we're setting up for a pretty good hopper season on the white. I feel like flow wise, we never know. But it looks good. I mean, the lake is full. They're starting to flow. It looks like they'll flow right on through them. It'll take them a while to get that water out of the lake. So we should have water for the summer. Yes. Yeah. Which is fun. And I mean... Oh, dude. And that summer streamer bite can be fun, too, if you get the right days. That waters everything during the summer.

Yeah.

For sure.

It really, it's just like during the winter. I mean, we really, it's the lifeline. Yeah. Yeah. So, like getting downriver a little bit, getting away from some other people, and their own delicate dries and hotspot and good banks. Yeah. With hoppers and girdlebugs is kind of a favorite of mine.

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