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S6, Ep 89: Post-Storm 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,
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  Marvin: Brendan Roosh. Brendan, how are you?
• 0:12
  Brendan : Doing all right, Marvin. How are you doing?
• 0:14
  Marvin: Just trying to stay out of trouble. Was goofing off a little bit last week on
• 0:18
  Marvin: the water, so I've been digging out today.
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  Brendan : Nice. Yeah, same here. I haven't spent the last two weeks on the home waters,
• 0:27
  Brendan : but luckily we missed some rain
• 0:30
  Brendan : and then we got pounded with rain um yeah i was up in canada having some fun
• 0:36
  Brendan : catching some largemouths and smallmouths a little bit of ditch pickle pike
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  Brendan : but it was a great time up there yeah.
• 0:44
  Marvin: I was gonna say if you picked a time to go out of town during guide season you
• 0:46
  Marvin: probably hit it just about right because i would imagine uh into last week for
• 0:50
  Marvin: sure was a complete washout right right?
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  Brendan : Yeah, it went up. Uh, everything went up pretty high. Um, still very off color
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  Brendan : and high right now. And, uh,
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  Brendan : push back the trips for this week. I'll be doing a, or helping out at a cleanup
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  Brendan : on the Delaware with the Delaware river club and house fly fishing.
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  Brendan : Um, that's going to be this Friday, Saturday.
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  Brendan : And it looks like we're getting some more rain over the weekend in the south central PA area.
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  Brendan : So hopefully it won't be unfishable next week.
• 1:25
  Marvin: Yeah, get all the dumpsters and trees out of the river, right?
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  Brendan : Yeah. Yeah, we'll get all the fresh tires that were rolled in near Hancock or
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  Brendan : whatever deposit up in New York.
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  Marvin: Yeah, something to look forward to. And so if folks wanted to get a little bit
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  Marvin: more information on the stream cleanup, where should they go?
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  Brendan : Um house fly fishing on instagram or the delaware river club on instagram got.
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  Marvin: It and so we figured since you've uh you've been out of the country uh fishing
• 1:57
  Marvin: that you know maybe a great thing to talk about for folks is you know what to
• 2:01
  Marvin: expect you know as the water drops and becomes fishable again like how are the
• 2:05
  Marvin: fish going to behave you know i assume they're going to come off structure a
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  Marvin: little bit but you know why don't you share your thoughts on that with our folks.
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  Brendan : So i think what we're going to be experiencing
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  Brendan : is a lot of
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  Brendan : grass pretty much distributed throughout
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  Brendan : the whole water column uh for a period of time that like i don't know how many
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  Brendan : days it's going to last but um yeah you're going to be dealing with grass on
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  Brendan : the banks for sure and And then it kind of stacks up and starts to die off.
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  Brendan : And this is just from big blowouts this time of year in the past.
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  Brendan : So I think, yeah, I mean, fishing...
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  Brendan : The usual stuff that I talk about, like that first drop, second drop, in the middle.
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  Brendan : Just if there's grass on top, not fishing topwater, trying to get down below
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  Brendan : the grass, maybe dead drifting with some twitches with a crayfish.
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  Brendan : Or a little bit bigger baitfish pattern if the water's still off color.
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  Marvin: Got it. And then, of course, I guess maybe opt to fish more towards the middle
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  Marvin: of the river if there's a bunch of junk on the edges, right?
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  Brendan : Yeah. Either you know or you find where the first and second drop are or fish
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  Brendan : bottom structure off the banks.
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  Brendan : I'm just picturing a few years ago, there was just so much grass stacked up
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  Brendan : on the banks from a big storm like we just had this time of year.
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  Brendan : It's just like, I don't know.
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  Brendan : Someone was telling me that when the grass gets stacked up like that,
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  Brendan : it just depletes oxygen in those areas.
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  Brendan : Um, which makes sense, but I don't know.
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  Marvin: Interesting. So anything in terms of like changes in presentation or fly color,
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  Marvin: if you're fishing subsurface, I mean, rattles, anything like that you want to share folks?
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  Brendan : Yeah, for stained water, you're fishing that drop.
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  Brendan : I mean, I'd be fishing black for sure, black and chartreuse,
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  Brendan : that yellow, pink, and orange mixture.
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  Brendan : That blend seems to work pretty well in that brownish-green water on the greener side of things.
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  Brendan : Just things that are going to be different from the grass that's floating down
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  Brendan : or in the fall you know sometimes you get leaves uh tons of leaves in the system
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  Brendan : so i think just trying to stand out while still imitating something is uh that's my advice there gotcha.
• 4:47
  Marvin: And uh rattles or no rattles uh corkscrew tails on flies anything like that.
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  Brendan : Yeah i'm a fan of a rattle um they They often break, but it always gives me
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  Brendan : some confidence when a fly has one, especially in dirty conditions.
• 5:03
  Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And we have only non-serious questions this time,
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  Marvin: which kind of works out since you haven't been on the water recently.
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  Marvin: But I got a question from Sean, and he wants to know if you know what the term yardie means.
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  Brendan : Yardie. uh yardie is something
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  Brendan : you say to your friends uh after you say something
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  Brendan : that they should already know got it um so yeah i mean you know say what fly
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  Brendan : are you gonna fish today sean you're gonna fish a nymph and he's gonna say yardie
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  Brendan : because sean that's all he does is he nymphs so got.
• 5:43
  Marvin: It i didn't even have to ask you to use it in a sentence for me.
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  Brendan : Oh yeah i got you yeah.
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  Marvin: So i think attack on that he had
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  Marvin: he had was uh something about uh are you familiar with capri sun emojis.
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  Brendan : Yes, so that's a juice box.
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  Brendan : And then if you stack at least two juice boxes together in a comment or a text,
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  Brendan : then that means that it's juiced. And juice is a good thing.
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  Marvin: Gotcha. What if you had a juice box, an eggplant in a juice box?
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  Brendan : That's bordering on dangerous territory. I'm going to leave that one alone.
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  Marvin: There you go.
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  Marvin: Well, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
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  Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media, whatever is easiest for you.
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  Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.
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  Marvin: And then Brendan's got an awesome pack of Roosh angling stuff,
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  Marvin: log jam stuff, and housefly stuff.
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  Marvin: So send us your questions because we love them and it makes the show fun.
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  Marvin: And Brendan, before I let you go, you want to let folks know kind of how to
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  Marvin: reach you, what's open on your guide calendar, all that kind of good stuff?
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  Brendan : Yeah, you can reach me at Brendan Roosh on Instagram. roosh angling on facebook
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  Brendan : and uh i have some dates open in the first half of september,
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  Brendan : and uh yeah i mean it should be should be a nice big start to the month with
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  Brendan : all this water we have um i'm looking forward to getting out the end of august
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  Brendan : here with a stacked schedule of guys that can fish a bug and hopefully we have water for that but yeah.
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  Marvin: And it's not crazy hot right.
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  Brendan : Yeah and it's it's cold off and it's definitely not miserable outside anymore
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  Brendan : yeah like the first half of the summer dude.
• 7:33
  Marvin: It was hot last week i'll tell you um and not a dry heat either um well you
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  Marvin: know folks as i always say you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch
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  Marvin: a few tight lines everybody tight lines brendan.
• 7:44
  Brendan : Take care.