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S6, Ep 100: Late Summer Fishing Strategies and Stream Cleanups 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. Brendan, how are you?
• 0:12
  Brendan : I'm doing well. Back in the heat wave. Got a face full of sunscreen,
• 0:17
  Brendan : but doing well. How are you doing?
• 0:19
  Marvin: I'm just trying to stay out of trouble and, you know, digging out from goofing
• 0:23
  Marvin: off a little bit earlier and trying to clear the deck for the holiday weekend.
• 0:28
  Brendan : There you go. Yeah, it's good to get your jollies out before the holiday weekend.
• 0:33
  Marvin: Yeah, so that you can do yard work and, you know, go to Bed Bath & Beyond and Home Depot, right?
• 0:38
  Brendan : Oh, yeah.
• 0:39
  Marvin: You know, I may not have enough time to get it all in. You know what I'm saying?
• 0:43
  Brendan : Yeah, that's good, man.
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  Marvin: So, you know, looking at your weather like I always do, you know,
• 0:50
  Marvin: you're cooler than you were.
• 0:51
  Marvin: You're warming up a little bit, and you got a little bit of rain next week.
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  Marvin: You know not a lot but um you know what is that converting to on the water for you.
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  Brendan : Uh so this past week i guess
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  Brendan : last week now at this point um we were wearing jackets in the morning and it
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  Brendan : would kind of the fog would burn off and it was nice uh fishing bait fish and
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  Brendan : tail outs crate fish um poppers in the afternoon it would definitely start to
• 1:19
  Brendan : heat up see some damsels out in the afternoon.
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  Brendan : And then we went back into full summer, fishing, you know, 87 to 89 degrees
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  Brendan : towards the end of the day and slapping bugs down, letting them sit.
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  Brendan : And big fish were very happy to comply and come up and sip towards the end of
• 1:38
  Brendan : the last week. It was definitely, definitely a good week.
• 1:41
  Marvin: Yeah. And so before I forget, I know you had a stream cleanup with the Delaware
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  Marvin: River Club. Did you get any tattoos?
• 1:47
  Brendan : Tattoos no no one had a tattoo machine going surprisingly but uh yeah it was a great time um,
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  Brendan : i had the the easiest job of being in a drift boat and uh just kind of rode
• 2:03
  Brendan : my buddy's drift boat around with some trash in it but yeah there were so many
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  Brendan : volunteers that were on kayaks and canoes that were finding the tires finding
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  Brendan : the you know the metal objects and helping put them and drift boats.
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  Brendan : So I think it's a really great event and there's a lot of hard work that went into it.
• 2:21
  Brendan : And the after parties, Friday and Saturday nights, were really fun and very wholesome.
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  Marvin: There you go. And any idea, kind of from a tonnage perspective,
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  Marvin: how much trash you guys picked up?
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  Brendan : You know, I wish I knew that. It would be, it is on the Delaware River Club's
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  Brendan : Instagram page. I just don't know off the top of my head.
• 2:41
  Marvin: Well, I'll drop that in the show notes so people can check that out.
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  Marvin: And got a couple questions for you. The fun question is from Pintas Fish and
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  Marvin: he wanted to know, are you willing to sell your fall fish taxidermy collection?
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  Brendan : You know, I think that's going to have to stay in the family,
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  Brendan : whether that's going to go to future children or maybe just to some close friends.
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  Brendan : They'll definitely be in the will, but definitely I'm not selling them. No way.
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  Marvin: Yeah, so how many do you have?
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  Brendan : Right now I have a baker's dozen, but there's still room for that 20-incher.
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  Brendan : I'm really going for it. um you know throwing a lot of casts out there just
• 3:26
  Brendan : kind of praying that one of these times it's going to be a 20 inch ball fish instead of 20 inch bass.
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  Marvin: Yeah well you know if you start throwing like uh number two jighead pheasant
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  Marvin: tails that you should get hooked up yeah.
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  Brendan : I mean i i'm tied some clauser manos just for ball fish really so hopefully
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  Brendan : they'll they'll pay off for me.
• 3:46
  Marvin: Yeah well there you go i got a question uh from brendan for you he wanted to
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  Marvin: get your thoughts on how you attack fishing when the water temperatures are
• 3:54
  Marvin: swinging high to low and back to high again.
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  Brendan : Um if the swings don't totally turn the fish off uh for like brief windows um
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  Brendan : like there's definitely a chance where you go out and it was like crazy cold
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  Brendan : the night before compared to the
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  Brendan : night prior to that um sometimes they just they won't really be eating they'll
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  Brendan : be kind of passive uh other times you know you can find fish willing to eat
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  Brendan : mostly going to be subsurface like if it happens in the summertime, like we had last week,
• 4:28
  Brendan : just finding fish in more ambushy, kind of quicker water.
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  Brendan : And we did have lulls the first 45 minutes, hour of the day before the fog burned off.
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  Brendan : It wasn't a great morning by any means, but as the temperature kind of started to switch,
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  Brendan : that's when the more like fall-type tactics were paying off,
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  Brendan : like bait fish or uh crayfish patterns and faster faster current adjacent to
• 5:00
  Brendan : boulders and things like that um and then typically when you have those radical
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  Brendan : swings it's still going to be,
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  Brendan : relatively normal um in the heat of the day like
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  Brendan : we experience this week and we're going to experience next week um so then you
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  Brendan : just kind of transition into you know your your bug slash popper fishing as
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  Brendan : you start to see fish maybe eat your streamer hits the water or you start to
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  Brendan : see some fish rising around you got.
• 5:28
  Marvin: It and you know folks we love questions on the articulate fly you can email
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  Marvin: them to us or dm us on social media whatever is easiest for you and if we use
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  Marvin: your question i will send you some articulate fly swag and then we're going
• 5:39
  Marvin: to enter you in a drawing for a swag pack from brendan himself you've got you
• 5:43
  Marvin: know ruchangling stuff you got log jam stuff and you got housefly stuff right.
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  Brendan : Yeah it's gonna be a good prize pack for sure yeah all the homies yeah.
• 5:51
  Marvin: Do you have any uh of those uh like uh cracker jack box tattoos to go in that.
• 5:58
  Brendan : Um, yeah, I have some, some Lincoln Bruce shangling tattoos and,
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  Brendan : um, I have a couple of copies of, uh, the, the toad tattoo I got at Edison last
• 6:08
  Brendan : year. We're going to give them out as well.
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  Marvin: Yeah. Well, there you go. And, you know, as we're, uh, you know,
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  Marvin: things are starting to kind of cool off and the seasons are changing,
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  Marvin: you know, I imagine you're kind of, you know, booking the back end of your,
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  Marvin: uh, Pennsylvania smallmouth season, but I know you're going to come down to
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  Marvin: Virginia and do a little musky fishing.
• 6:23
  Marvin: You want to let folks know kind of what you have available and how to reach out and get on the books.
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  Brendan : Yeah so for the next couple weeks i have um september 5th and 12th and october
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  Brendan : i have quite a bit of availability um if you want to get out and do some smallmouth streamer fishing,
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  Brendan : fish can follow feedback on um i also,
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  Brendan : i feel a little nervous saying this but i just picked up my jet boat today from
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  Brendan : uh from the jet boat doctor and that may be in play in October kind of fishing
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  Brendan : more of the big river stuff, faster current, bigger flies,
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  Brendan : bigger fish, cold water.
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  Brendan : And as far as the Virginia stuff, you can just reach out.
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  Brendan : I'll be doing block dates down there cause I won't be down there the whole season,
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  Brendan : but feel free to reach out at Brendan Roosh on Instagram, ruchangling on facebook
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  Brendan : and also brendan ruch on facebook.
• 7:24
  Marvin: Well there you go well listen folks i want everyone to have a safe and relaxing
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  Marvin: labor day weekend and as i always say you owe it to yourself to get out there
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  Marvin: and catch a few tight lines everybody tight lines brendan.
• 7:37
  Brendan : Take care marvin go catch a few.