S6, Ep 107: Puppy Chow and Popping Bugs: Brendan Ruch's Fishing Forecast
In this episode of The Articulate Fly, host Marvin Cash catches up with Brendan Ruch for another insightful Ruch Report. Brendan shares updates on the current fishing conditions, highlighting the mixed period of topwater and baitfish fishing. He provides tips on fishing buggy style during the day and baitfish patterns over weeds and boulders in the mornings and evenings. Brendan also discusses the seasonal behavior of baitfish and the importance of adapting fishing strategies accordingly.
Don't miss this episode packed with practical fishing advice, humor and exciting updates from the world of smallmouth angling.
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Marvin: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Flower,
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Marvin: back with another Roosh report with the man himself, Brendan Roosh. Brendan, how are you?
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Brendan : I'm doing well, coming up a little travel leg, per usual. How are you doing?
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Marvin: As always, just trying to stay out of trouble, and you know,
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Marvin: it's interesting, right?
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Marvin: You were telling me that you're kind of cooling off, but you're getting ready
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Marvin: to warm up again, so things might be slightly funky, right?
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Brendan : Yeah, I think we're going to have a prolonged just kind of mixed period where you're able to fish,
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Brendan : topwater probably I would say fishing buggy style fishing most of the day and then,
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Brendan : evening and morning you probably get away with doing some bait fish style popping.
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Brendan : But yeah, I think fishing bait over weeds or Um, but the waters are to speed
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Brendan : up, like in a tail out, some boulders to fish and bait fish patterns.
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Brendan : And then, uh, crayfish, you know, pretty much anywhere mid river,
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Brendan : um, second drop boulders fishing, you know, where you're going to fish the bait fish patterns too.
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Brendan : But I, it's going to be a nice couple of weeks of mild temperatures and it's
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Brendan : pretty consistent. It looks like.
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Marvin: Yeah, it's interesting, right? I mean, I would have guessed that the bait fish
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Marvin: kind of makes sense, right? because the bait fish is basically as big as it's
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Marvin: going to get this season, right?
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Brendan : Yeah, and they're out and about right now. They're everywhere.
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Marvin: Yeah, because they've got to basically put the feed bag on so that when they
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Marvin: huddle up and try to stay warm this winter and get eaten by big fish, they can make it, right?
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Brendan : Yeah, exactly.
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Marvin: Yeah, and so on the question front, kind of funny, we didn't get a serious question
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Marvin: this week, which is kind of funny, but we did get a non-serious question from
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Marvin: someone who must know you.
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Marvin: His handle is Danny Waskey, and he wanted you to tell folks about your rubber
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Marvin: leg dice and wondered if it would help him with his live scoping.
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Brendan : Yeah, Danny boy, he's real into that forward-facing sonar game.
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Brendan : He's got one hooked up on his buddy's raft now. Um,
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Brendan : so yeah, I think, you know, a really dense soft plastic cube with about 30 silicone
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Brendan : legs sticking out of it probably be pretty good to pester those fish on your live scope.
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Brendan : Just kind of piss them off, maybe make them question, you know,
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Brendan : why do I eat the things I eat and should I eat that one?
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Marvin: Yeah. When you, uh, when you live scope, do you have a favorite kind of fish
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Marvin: food you like to shake out on the water? Yeah.
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Brendan : Um, you know, I don't have a lot of experience with fish food,
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Brendan : but I'm picturing some stuff that, you know, just some planks you feed goldfish, but out of a cannon.
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Marvin: Yeah, maybe, uh, maybe like a potato gun or a slingshot with maybe puppy chow or something like that.
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Brendan : Yeah, that's some, some boys, uh, doing the white I heard.
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Marvin: Yeah, there you go. All the cool kids are live scoping, right? Yeah.
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Brendan : Well, no, more so the puppy child than the live scoping.
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Marvin: Gotcha. Well, it's kind of funny that we didn't get a serious question this
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Marvin: time, but you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
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Marvin: You can email them to me or DM me on social media.
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Marvin: And as I always invite you guys, you can go to the website and you can leave
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Marvin: me a voicemail with your question. You may actually hear it on the episode.
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Marvin: So if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly fly schwag.
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Marvin: And then we've got a great kind of a schwag combo from Brendan.
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Marvin: We got, you know, ruchingling stuff. We got log jam stuff and house fly stuff, right?
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Brendan : Yes, sir. It'll be a sweet grab bag. Once we do that raffle or the pick, pick the winner.
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Marvin: Yeah. And you've got, I think you told me you had some temporary tattoos.
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Marvin: You're going to add to the mix as well.
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Brendan : Yeah, we got ruchingling temporary tattoos. We got the toad that, uh, Dan Santoro gave me.
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Brendan : We got, we got replicas of that. Some FTW tattoos.
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Marvin: Yeah, well, there you go. Well, before I let you go this evening,
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Marvin: you want to let folks kind of know kind of what you have available for kind
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Marvin: of the balance of your smallmouth season and how to get in touch and all that kind of good stuff?
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Brendan : Yeah, I've got days available in October. Hopefully, it'll cool down a little
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Brendan : bit more by then and we'll get some consistent larger bait fish bites.
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Brendan : So that'll be fun. on and you can reach me at Brendan Roosh on Instagram,
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Brendan : Roosh Angling and Brendan Roosh on Facebook.
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Brendan : And, uh, yeah, you want to kind of get on that late, late fall swim fly bite
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Brendan : and that'll be the time to do it.
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Brendan : And it should be pretty good. We should have some water.
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Marvin: Yeah. And is it, um, is it too early for folks to kind of reach out and get
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Marvin: on your musky calendar down in Virginia?
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Brendan : Virginia? Um, no, they can, they can reach out and, uh, we can,
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Brendan : we can even do some stuff in PA as well.
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Marvin: Oh, well, there you go. And you know, it's, uh, it's funny. I think last time
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Marvin: we got the update on the Delaware river club cleanup, you have any more events
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Marvin: like that, or you're going to
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Marvin: get a tattoo and an iron fly or anything you need to let folks know about?
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Brendan : No, uh, nothing on the horizon right now, but we'll get posted.
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Marvin: Yeah, there you go. Well, you know, folks, uh, we're kind of getting to the
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Marvin: tail end of summer, getting ready to slide into fall.
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Marvin: And I can promise you that in January or February, you're going to wish you got out and caught a few.
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Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.
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Brendan : Take care, Marvin. Take care, everyone.
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