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S6, Ep 115: Fall Smallie Fishing and Boat Snacks: Brendan Ruch's Angling Advice · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  Marvin: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,
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  Marvin: and we're back with another Roosh Report with the man himself,
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  Marvin: Brendan Roosh. Brendan, how are you?
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  Brendan : I'm doing well. I can't believe it's already been two weeks since our last report.
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  Marvin: It's been two weeks and a day. I let you play hooky to go see the Phillies.
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  Brendan : Yeah, pulled out a wing. It was a great day to be at. I'm lucky to have a brother who can support me.
• 0:29
  Marvin: And doesn't hate you. It's all good.
• 0:31
  Brendan : Yeah.
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  Marvin: So, you know, it's interesting. I was looking at your weather before we started
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  Marvin: recording, and you guys being a little bit north of me, seems like you're kind
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  Marvin: of a little bit more into that fall transition, a little bit wetter,
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  Marvin: a little bit cooler. What are you seeing on the water?
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  Brendan : Yeah, the forecast is looking kind of wet and kind of cool.
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  Brendan : I still wish we would just get a big dump of rain, blow everything out,
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  Brendan : and just give us some water.
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  Brendan : But yeah, I mean, at least we're going to be getting a little bit of water in the systems.
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  Brendan : The last week was very low.
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  Brendan : Depending on where you were, there could have been lots of grass,
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  Brendan : but every cast was either grass or a bass. So fish have been very willing to eat.
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  Brendan : Getting them on bait fish flies, fishing some dead drifted, weighted crayfish
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  Brendan : stuff, or even just like modified bugger stuff.
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  Brendan : Um, but for those who are, you know, willing to throw a spinning rod,
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  Brendan : like you have a hundred fish days, letting, letting something hit the bottom,
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  Brendan : as long as it's under three inches long and green pumpkin.
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  Marvin: Yeah, there you go. Just bottom bouncing stuff, right?
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  Brendan : Yep. Yeah. My, my thumb is almost recovered, uh, from, from a couple of days
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  Brendan : ago. It was just a sleigh fist.
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  Marvin: Yeah. It's good to have those every now and again. And so, you know,
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  Marvin: in terms of, you know, particularly when you're fishing at various places in
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  Marvin: the water column and you've got crap in the water, which happens,
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  Marvin: you know, with Dustin, who's out in Wyoming on the North Platte,
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  Marvin: you know, what are some tips for folks that want to kind of,
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  Marvin: you know, fish in the grass and not lose their minds? Yeah.
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  Brendan : Well, if you're going to be fishing, like bringing a fly back to the boat,
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  Brendan : you're going to get grass way too often and you're most likely going to lose your mind.
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  Brendan : So one of the big reasons why we were bottom bouncing, like some clients come
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  Brendan : out and they just want to spin fish and some clients are just open to it.
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  Brendan : It so uh you know fishing parallel
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  Brendan : to the boat dead drifting almost nipping per se with like a bottom bouncing
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  Brendan : bay whether it's a net rig or a tube or uh some other soft plastic you're not
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  Brendan : going to pick up grass nearly as often as bringing something back to the boat that makes sense,
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  Brendan : so that that lure is just getting down and then
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  Brendan : bouncing in a line and then when you reel it in you're going to get grass every
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  Brendan : time just at the end of your retrieve so you pick that grass off cast it back
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  Brendan : out um but honestly most of the time you before you're done your your drift
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  Brendan : you're going to catch a fish whether it's five inches long or 19 you know yeah.
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  Marvin: Got it and i guess you know is with the water being low are you able to if you're
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  Marvin: uh you know fishing the fly to basically use a slap to get all the crap off
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  Marvin: of your fly or do you actually have to bring it all the way in and kind of clean
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  Marvin: it off to keep from scaring the bejesus out of the fish.
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  Brendan : I'm not a huge fan of flapping, mostly because the eelgrass will usually come
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  Brendan : off with the first false cast if you stop it hard enough.
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  Brendan : Or if you're not capable of doing that, I'm more than happy to take it off the hook.
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  Brendan : We've been dealing with a little bit of an algae bloom on one of the rivers,
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  Brendan : and that stuff's kind of like snotty hair.
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  Brendan : Uh so that i've been you know having to take off for people or they're taking it off,
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  Brendan : but uh yeah not a huge fan of the slap when you can see down eight feet in the
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  Brendan : deepest hole on the float and uh bass are spooking off the boat turning 50 feet away yeah.
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  Marvin: You know because you got your uh you know your sonos on the boat rocking the
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  Marvin: uh the morrissey scares the hell out lot of them right.
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  Brendan : You know i had i had a really good day uh with slick whitman from housefly,
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  Brendan : uh and we were we were playing some very chill
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  Brendan : music some graham parsons some willie nelson uh that
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  Brendan : wasn't sean's choice he doesn't really know anything about music but uh our
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  Brendan : buddy adam naples had that uh that country vibe going but yeah we didn't scoop
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  Brendan : any fish on that we actually the biggest fish of the week that day but um yeah
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  Brendan : i still don't think a mild volume speaker will scoop fish but others will disagree with me yeah.
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  Marvin: Well you know if you put that powered subwoofer in the bow um you know that's
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  Marvin: a problem um but uh you know it's funny.
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  Brendan : Yeah we've been up to your other boys in michigan yeah.
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  Marvin: Exactly the um you know just you know
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  Marvin: run it off the trolling motor it's all good um the
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  Marvin: uh you know it's funny uh all of your your fishing buddies uh they have a hard
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  Marvin: time coming up with serious questions i think i told you before we started recording
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  Marvin: i probably had a dozen kind of silly non-serious questions and the one we landed
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  Marvin: on is uh from cory rubin and he wanted to get your thoughts on your favorite
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  Marvin: post-day meal and your favorite on-boat snack.
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  Brendan : So favorite on boat snack, uh, just kind of happened to grab a fistful of dried
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  Brendan : pineapple and a fistful of, uh,
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  Brendan : the cons out of Chris Willen boat back in June.
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  Brendan : And they were kind of got mixed together in my left hand as he's motoring around.
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  Brendan : And I think that's my new favorite snack.
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  Brendan : Um, so I've been mixing them together when I can justify spending like $20 on
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  Brendan : a boat it's not but yeah the dried pineapple and pecans that's my new favorite thing,
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  Brendan : beef jerky is always good I find it hard to swallow that pill also as far as
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  Brendan : like paying for it but my two thing is just ground mix,
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  Brendan : and yeah post meal post fishing meal I don't know,
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  Brendan : Most of the time, it's Chipotle, but I prefer steak for sure.
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  Marvin: There you go. It's kind of funny because I hear you talking about all this health food stuff.
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  Marvin: I see you undercover wearing Birkenstocks and some kind of macrame poncho at
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  Marvin: the local health food store.
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  Marvin: Buying twigs and berries and bulk.
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  Brendan : Well, don't worry.
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  Brendan : I supplement all of this with a healthy dose of Reese's Cups.
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  Marvin: Yeah, there you go.
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  Brendan : Just to keep me at a nice pudgy level.
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  Marvin: There you go. You don't want to get to fighting weight too soon.
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  Marvin: So, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
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• 7:26
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  Marvin: a cool kind of swag bundle from Brendan that's got, you know,
• 7:34
  Marvin: roof shangling stuff, house fly stuff, and log jam stuff.
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  Marvin: Stuff and uh you know like i always do brendan we're always looking forward
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  Marvin: um trying to help people find you to get in the boat uh you know what do you
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  Marvin: have open and how should people reach out uh.
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  Brendan : I've got some scattered days available in october um i'd love to do some some
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  Brendan : twin fly boats uh so yeah reach out on instagram at brendan roosh on facebook
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  Brendan : at brendan roosh and roosh angling.
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  Brendan : Yeah, we're kind of in the twilight of the 2024 bass season here,
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  Brendan : and it's going to switch over to muskie pretty surely.
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  Brendan : So, if you want to get out for a big fat fall, small mouth, now's the time to do it.
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  Marvin: Yeah, any parking lot tattoos, trash cleanups, anything like that you need to share with folks?
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  Brendan : No events on the horizon as far as I know.
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  Marvin: Well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, as I always say, yo it to yourself
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  Marvin: to get out there and catch a few. Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.
• 8:39
  Brendan : Take care, everybody. Thanks for having me, Marvin.
• 8:41
  Marvin: You bet.