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S6, Ep 67: Low Water Challenges and Smallmouth Strategies with Brendan Ruch · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,
• 0:06
  Marvin: and we're back with another Roosh Report with the man himself,
• 0:09
  Marvin: Brendan Roosh. How are you doing?
• 0:12
  Brendan: Doing well, Marvin. Thanks for having me back. How are you doing?
• 0:15
  Marvin: Oh, I'm just trying to stay out of trouble. And, you know, it's interesting.
• 0:19
  Marvin: We were talking before we started recording, and dude, it's going to be a roaster in central PA.
• 0:23
  Marvin: I mean, it's that bummer, right? The trout and the smallies are in the shade and you're in the sun.
• 0:29
  Brendan: Yeah it's definitely not the best time to be
• 0:32
  Brendan: on the water um during a heat wave under low water conditions things can get
• 0:37
  Brendan: pretty tough um if i if i weren't going to be in wisconsin i would definitely
• 0:44
  Brendan: be fishing the fringes like early morning and the evening for sure yeah.
• 0:50
  Marvin: And i guess if you're testing you've got low water you've got all kinds of problems
• 0:54
  Marvin: right because the fish are going to know you're there because you're pushing
• 0:56
  Marvin: a lot of water water's probably clear any tips for folks to kind of make those
• 1:02
  Marvin: issues go away a little bit.
• 1:06
  Brendan: Yeah i'd be very um aware of what your fly line is doing on the surface specifically
• 1:13
  Brendan: during like picking up for your next cast i see a lot of casts get picked up
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  Brendan: and put down in the same spot in the summertime the low and clear and it just doesn't make much sense,
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  Brendan: so you want to pick your cast up and then do a false cast or two to change your
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  Brendan: angle and then just try to jump down 15 20 feet if you're if you're drifting
• 1:34
  Brendan: in a boat and if you're if you're wade fishing then you just want to strip in
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  Brendan: or let your fly swing out before you cast again.
• 1:42
  Marvin: Got it and if the water's low does that mean you can't listen to music on the boat.
• 1:47
  Brendan: You know marvin if you can't listen to music on the boat i don't want to be out there so fair.
• 1:53
  Marvin: Enough uh well we got a couple questions for you right we've got our not serious
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  Marvin: question from instagram dh and uh he wanted to get all of your tips on catching fall fish.
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  Brendan: You know i've never targeted them personally but from a bycatch standpoint there
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  Brendan: are some pretty predictable spots uh you're going to be looking at,
• 2:17
  Brendan: like runs after a riffle with some structure, basically trout water in a warm water fishery.
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  Brendan: And Graham actually caught an 18 incher about a month ago.
• 2:31
  Brendan: So I think he just, I think he's just flexing right now. He caught a pretty good one.
• 2:36
  Marvin: Yeah. So do we have to tell everybody that that was his fish that's been in the Instagram feed?
• 2:42
  Brendan: Yes. Yeah. That was, that was his, his fall fish. And yeah, I wanted to show
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  Brendan: that off for him. He's a good guy, and it's good fall fish.
• 2:50
  Marvin: Yeah, did you take it home and smoke it and eat it?
• 2:54
  Brendan: No, we just ate it on the boat. I always carry soy sauce and wasabi.
• 2:59
  Marvin: I really never thought about the sashimi. You know, down in the South,
• 3:02
  Marvin: we just like grease and cornmeal, right?
• 3:05
  Brendan: Yeah, we try to spice things up a bit in central Pennsylvania.
• 3:10
  Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And then we got a question for you from John,
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  Marvin: and he wanted to get your thoughts on the tactics that you recommend for smallmouth
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  Marvin: when the water levels start to go up and the water gets a little bit of stain to it.
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  Brendan: Yeah so if we're talking fishing on the greener side of brown water um like
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  Brendan: not completely brown and with you know tons of debris um that's basically,
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  Brendan: gonna be like the spring program and if you're fishing maybe like really on
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  Brendan: the cusp of brown but there isn't a ton of debris like fishing flies that push a little bit more water,
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  Brendan: So something that has maybe a little bit of flexible resin on the head of a
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  Brendan: feather game changer, for instance.
• 3:55
  Brendan: Or like fishing a fly that has a rattle and something that is going to kind
• 3:59
  Brendan: of like glow a little bit, throw a little bit of light.
• 4:03
  Brendan: So that might be a time where I'm going to pick a flashier fly over some of
• 4:08
  Brendan: the more subdued flies that I typically fish in green water.
• 4:12
  Marvin: Got it. And so do you, would you still stay with like a light color fly or do
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  Marvin: you like a darker fly for contrast in that situation?
• 4:20
  Brendan: Generally, if the water is dirty enough that I can't see the fly that I'm fishing
• 4:24
  Brendan: anyway, I'll, I'll go to like a black and olive or black chartreuse kind of
• 4:31
  Brendan: configuration or just straight black because it really doesn't matter.
• 4:34
  Brendan: But if you can get a couple feet of visibility,
• 4:37
  Brendan: then I'm going to be starting off with like some sort of yellow,
• 4:43
  Brendan: orange variation or pink, chartreuse, maybe straight white.
• 4:49
  Brendan: And then if that doesn't work, then yeah, black is always the second choice there.
• 4:54
  Marvin: There you go. And you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
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• 5:01
  Marvin: thing, if you go to our website, thearticulatefly.com, in the lower right-hand
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  Marvin: corner on the podcast page, you can actually record your question.
• 5:10
  Marvin: And if you record it, we may actually use it and read it live on the report.
• 5:16
  Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.
• 5:20
  Marvin: And Brendan has pulled together some Roosh Report, or actually,
• 5:23
  Marvin: I guess, Roosh Fishing. You need to make maybe some Roosh Report coffee mugs or something.
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  Marvin: But but ruch report swag some house
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  Marvin: fly swag and some log jam swag and that's gonna be
• 5:35
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• 5:43
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• 5:51
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• 5:54
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• 5:58
  Marvin: You want to let folks know where they can find you so they can book in fish with you?
• 6:04
  Brendan: Yeah. ruchangling at gmail.com, ruchangling on Facebook, and Brendan Ruch on Instagram.
• 6:11
  Marvin: Well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, as I always say, you know,
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  Marvin: stay cool, but you still owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.
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  Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.
• 6:21
  Brendan: Take care.