July 18, 2024

S6, Ep 78: Cinnamon Zyns and Topwater Wins: The Ruch Report

Join host Marvin Cash on The Articulate Fly for another insightful Ruch Report with Brendan Ruch. In this episode, Brendan reflects on his recent 30th birthday celebrations and shares his unique fishing experiences in Wisconsin with Chris Willen. Despite challenging conditions with blown-out rivers, Brendan explored lake fishing using advanced techniques and electronics.

Brendan discusses the current hot weather and its impact on fishing, noting water temperatures reaching up to 91-92 degrees. He provides tips on effective fishing strategies, highlighting the success of topwater flies like boogle bugs and Mister Wigglies, as well as the reliable crayfish bite. Brendan also answers listener questions, including a humorous query about his preferred amount of Zyn and a technical question about using droppers off boogle bugs.

Whether you're an avid angler or just love fishing stories, this episode offers plenty of laughs, tips and inspiration. Tight lines!

To learn more about Brendan, check out our interview.

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Transcript
Speaker:

Marvin: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly,



Speaker:

Marvin: and we're back with another Roosh Report with Brendan Roosh. Brendan, how are you?



Speaker:

Brendan : Doing well, Marvin. Thanks for having me.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, absolutely. And you're older and wiser. We missed a recording session



Speaker:

Marvin: because it was your 3-0 birthday.



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, big 3-0. headed back from Wisconsin and then had some fun.



Speaker:

Brendan : Some good clean living fun.



Speaker:

Marvin: There you go. But you were out fishing with Willen, right?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, I was out fishing with Willen and I got properly hazed for about five days.



Speaker:

Brendan : It was a good time. We were fishing hard.



Speaker:

Brendan : Of course, the rivers blew out the night I got there in typical travel fashion.



Speaker:

Brendan : but luckily he has a sick ranger where you fish the lakes. And I got to see



Speaker:

Brendan : a whole different, a whole different game that I've never even really thought of before. So.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah. Very, very cool. Kind of like more like a pike game.



Speaker:

Brendan : Um, just fishing, uh, man-made structure and using electronics to find the structure.



Speaker:

Brendan : And then, you know, ideally you find the fish, but there's a lot of cast and a lot of hoping.



Speaker:

Brendan : And, uh, I did have a sick eat and landed a fish with him.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, very, very cool. And, you know, it's kind of cool. So how does it feel



Speaker:

Marvin: to you if you're the big 3-0, you're like almost a river geyser now?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, it's pretty bizarre thinking about, you know, being 30 and,



Speaker:

Brendan : rowing a boat i don't know it's it's interesting puts things into perspective i guess yeah.



Speaker:

Marvin: And it's it's been you know to say that it's been hot as balls is an understatement uh.



Speaker:

Brendan : We we.



Speaker:

Marvin: Were talking before we started recording that you know luckily maybe in the



Speaker:

Marvin: next two or three days it's gonna you're gonna get maybe 10 degrees or more



Speaker:

Marvin: of relief but uh what are you seeing out there on the water.



Speaker:

Brendan : Um it's been



Speaker:

Brendan : low clear hot um my my



Speaker:

Brendan : water temp at the takeout today was uh like 91 92 degrees um that's probably



Speaker:

Brendan : a little bit warmer than the main current but yeah i mean it was it was warm



Speaker:

Brendan : um getting fish on boogles fish are definitely looking up eating damsel flies Um,



Speaker:

Brendan : so, you know, your Google bug, Mr.



Speaker:

Brendan : Wiggly, um, pretty much anything, anything that floats slaps and is blue right



Speaker:

Brendan : now, getting the job done.



Speaker:

Marvin: And so are you bothering to fish streamers at all or like crayfish or anything



Speaker:

Marvin: like that? Or is it just strictly a topwater bite?



Speaker:

Brendan : Um, it, it depends on what the clients want to do.



Speaker:

Brendan : Um, today they wanted to fish poppers all day, but yeah, I mean,



Speaker:

Brendan : the crayfish bite's always good so uh i



Speaker:

Brendan : had a spin trip the other day and it was



Speaker:

Brendan : it was just bonkers just you know once once the jig hits the bottom it's setting



Speaker:

Brendan : the hook time so uh yeah fish are always going to be on the crayfish and um



Speaker:

Brendan : saw a few fish busting bait today but we were definitely focused on getting



Speaker:

Brendan : some some big top water shippers well.



Speaker:

Marvin: There you go well i have a question for you from Backcast Bow.



Speaker:

Marvin: He wanted to know how many zens makes you zenned up?



Speaker:

Brendan : Zenned up or zenned out?



Speaker:

Marvin: He said zenned up.



Speaker:

Brendan : Zenned up, I mean, two is zenned up for sure.



Speaker:

Marvin: And are those three? Two sixes. I was just getting ready to say threes or sixes.



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, I mean, two sixes, that's zinned up for sure, and not somewhere I like to be very often.



Speaker:

Marvin: Gotcha. I would imagine three would put you down like Frazier.



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, you know, you get the spins, get real sleepy.



Speaker:

Brendan : It happens sometimes when you're not paying attention. You don't take the used ones out.



Speaker:

Marvin: Sounds like an occupational hazard.



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're sitting on a boat just popping zins.



Speaker:

Brendan : it's it's bound to happen eventually until you start to feel sick and you're



Speaker:

Brendan : like is it the red bull or the zine i don't know but it's probably stopped both yeah.



Speaker:

Marvin: And what's your flavor of choice.



Speaker:

Brendan : Uh cinnazine right now it.



Speaker:

Marvin: Seems to be popular in east tennessee too i don't know what it is everyone's



Speaker:

Marvin: kind of backed off i don't maybe it's a seasonal thing where you know the spearmint



Speaker:

Marvin: and that stuff's a wintertime uh dip substitute.



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah i don't know i um i always kind of thought I thought cinnamon was good



Speaker:

Brendan : in the wintertime, and then I think Willen actually had it bobbing the hood,



Speaker:

Brendan : and I bummed one off him, and I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot about cinnamon.



Speaker:

Brendan : This is pretty good, and here we are six months later.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, and then this fall, you'll get the pumpkin spice latte version, right?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah. Yeah, it's a limited run. I'm looking forward to it.



Speaker:

Marvin: There you go. And Jwin11flies had the serious question this time around.



Speaker:

Marvin: He wanted to know if you ever run a dropper or Mr. Wiggly off a boo-boo bug.



Speaker:

Brendan : I've never really messed with the dropper thing.



Speaker:

Brendan : And it seems like such an obvious thing to do, especially when you're kind of



Speaker:

Brendan : guessing as to what they're eating and you can't really figure out the program.



Speaker:

Brendan : him. Um, so Jack, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get some girl bugs and, and give that a shot.



Speaker:

Brendan : I think I've, I've tied a couple of rigs up before and then they get tangled immediately.



Speaker:

Brendan : And then I take the dropper off, but the next time I'm out fishing,



Speaker:

Brendan : fishing on my own, I'm going to definitely give that a shot because it's too good not to work.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And you know, folks, we love questions on the articulate fly.



Speaker:

Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media, whatever's easiest for you.



Speaker:

Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly Swag and you'll



Speaker:

Marvin: get it or a drawing for we got a bunch of cool stuff, right?



Speaker:

Marvin: You've got ruched swag, which people can see in the Instagram feed, right?



Speaker:

Marvin: You've got logjam stuff and you've got house fly stuff, right?



Speaker:

Marvin: Yes All friends and secured all secured.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, and I noticed did I see in your Instagram feed that you've got a few cancellations, right?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, I had open a I,



Speaker:

Brendan : I don't have them on the top of my head or off the top of my head.



Speaker:

Marvin: That's okay. They should just DM you. But generally, last time we spoke,



Speaker:

Marvin: you're probably getting booked up, but you were starting to fill up into August, right?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah. Yeah, I do have a few days available in August. If someone wants to get



Speaker:

Brendan : out and do that, you know, the dead drifting, twitch every 10 seconds,



Speaker:

Brendan : watch a big beak come up, tip a popper.



Speaker:

Brendan : It's a really good time, and it beats hiking in the heat.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah, I did that. I was in Roan Mountain last week. It was hot.



Speaker:

Marvin: So, well, you know, you want to let folks know kind of, you know,



Speaker:

Marvin: if they want to get on your guide calendar, because I imagine you'll run that



Speaker:

Marvin: small mouth program. What, until probably the first or second week, October?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yeah, I mean, I'm usually I'll run until the first real cold snap in November.



Speaker:

Marvin: Yeah. And so, you know, they can reach out. Where should they find you?



Speaker:

Brendan : You can reach out at ruchangling at gmail.com. At Brendan Roosh on Instagram,



Speaker:

Brendan : Roosh Angling on Facebook, and my phone number will be in the notes, I guess.



Speaker:

Marvin: There you go. And will your groupies



Speaker:

Marvin: be able to find you on Taiwan On with the Log Jam folks this week?



Speaker:

Brendan : Yes. Yeah, I'll be there. And it's probably going to be a good time.



Speaker:

Brendan : Last week was really fun.



Speaker:

Brendan : We had Sean of Housefly, and it was a riot. We were on fire literally the whole time.



Speaker:

Marvin: El fuego as they say yep well let's el fuego el fuego well uh you know folks



Speaker:

Marvin: as i always say even though it's hot uh you owe it to yourself uh to get out



Speaker:

Marvin: there and catch a few fish early fish late tight lines everybody tight lines brendan take care.




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