S6, Ep 100: Late Summer Fishing Strategies and Stream Cleanups with Brendan Ruch
In this episode of The Articulate Fly, host Marvin Cash checks in with Brendan Ruch for another Ruch Report. Brendan shares his recent experiences on the water, discussing the impact of fluctuating weather on fishing conditions. From wearing jackets in the morning to sweltering afternoons, Brendan provides a detailed account of the week's fishing activities, including using baitfish and crayfish patterns, as well as poppers in the afternoon. He also highlights the excitement of seeing damsels out in the afternoon and big fish coming up to sip bugs.
Marvin and Brendan also talk about a recent stream cleanup event with the Delaware River Club, where volunteers gathered to remove trash from the river. Brendan shares his experience and the hard work that went into the event, emphasizing the importance of community efforts in preserving fishing environments.
The episode takes a fun turn with a listener question about Brendan's fallfish taxidermy collection, revealing his dedication to the hobby and his goal of catching a 20-inch fallfish. Additionally, Brendan offers insights on fishing strategies during periods of fluctuating water temperatures, emphasizing the importance of adapting techniques to changing conditions.
As the seasons change, Brendan discusses his plans for the upcoming months, including smallmouth fishing in Pennsylvania and musky fishing in Virginia. He provides information on how listeners can book trips with him and stay updated through his social media channels.
Don't miss this episode packed with fishing tips, community efforts and a touch of humor as Marvin and Brendan navigate the ever-changing fishing conditions.
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 : I'm doing well. Back in the heat wave. Got a face full of sunscreen,
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Brendan : but doing well. How are you doing?
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Marvin: I'm just trying to stay out of trouble and, you know, digging out from goofing
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Marvin: off a little bit earlier and trying to clear the deck for the holiday weekend.
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Brendan : There you go. Yeah, it's good to get your jollies out before the holiday weekend.
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Marvin: Yeah, so that you can do yard work and, you know, go to Bed Bath & Beyond and Home Depot, right?
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Brendan : Oh, yeah.
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Marvin: You know, I may not have enough time to get it all in. You know what I'm saying?
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Brendan : Yeah, that's good, man.
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Marvin: So, you know, looking at your weather like I always do, you know,
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Marvin: you're cooler than you were.
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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
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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
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Brendan : the last week. It was definitely, definitely a good week.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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Marvin: to enter you in a drawing for a swag pack from brendan himself you've got you
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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.
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Marvin: Do you have any uh of those uh like uh cracker jack box tattoos to go in that.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brendan : Take care marvin go catch a few.
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