S6, Ep 89: Post-Storm Strategies with Brendan Ruch
In this episode of The Articulate Fly, host Marvin Cash catches up with Brendan Ruch for another insightful Ruch Report. Brendan shares his recent adventures in Canada, where he enjoyed catching largemouth and smallmouth bass, as well as some pike. They discuss the impact of recent heavy rains on local fishing conditions and the upcoming stream cleanup event with the Delaware River Club.
Brendan provides valuable advice for anglers on what to expect as the water levels drop and become fishable again. He highlights the importance of fishing below the grass and offers tips on fly patterns and colors that work best in stained water. Whether you're dealing with grass on the banks or navigating through murky waters, Brendan's insights will help you make the most of your fishing trips.
They also dive into some fun, non-serious questions from listeners, including the meaning of the term "yardy" and the significance of Capri Sun emojis. It's a light-hearted and informative episode that offers both practical fishing tips and a few laughs.
To learn more about Brendan, check out our interview.
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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 : Doing all right, Marvin. How are you doing?
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Marvin: Just trying to stay out of trouble. Was goofing off a little bit last week on
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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,
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Brendan : but luckily we missed some rain
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Brendan : and then we got pounded with rain um yeah i was up in canada having some fun
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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.
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Marvin: I was gonna say if you picked a time to go out of town during guide season you
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Marvin: probably hit it just about right because i would imagine uh into last week for
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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.
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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
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Marvin: that you know maybe a great thing to talk about for folks is you know what to
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Marvin: expect you know as the water drops and becomes fishable again like how are the
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brendan : Take care.
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