S7, Ep 31: Nut Jobs and Quesadillas: A Spring Fishing Update with Brendan Ruch

Marvin Cash00:00:00

Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly. We're back with another Roosh report with the man himself, Brendan Rusch.Brendan, how are you?

Brendan Ruch00:00:12

I'm doing well, sitting in a damp, cold truck right now, not on the water today. And yeah, things have taken a little bit of a turn, but things have been great for three weeks.So it was about time for, you know, a little, little turn in the weather.

Marvin Cash00:00:28

Yeah. But on a positive note, you got a belly full of quesadilla, right? Yeah.

Brendan Ruch00:00:32

Fajita quesadilla, las margaritas. You gotta check it out if you're ever in beautiful Southampton, Pennsylvania.

Marvin Cash00:00:38

Well, there you go. And so, you know, as we were, as we were talking, you know, your weather has started to turn.You've got a front coming through that's gonna knock you off the water for a few days. But you're probably, you know, we were saying probably a week or so from seeing spawning bass, historically.

Brendan Ruch00:00:54

Yeah, I think, I mean, this week's really cooling things down. Some bodies of water are experiencing high water events right now. Nothing crazy, but you know, high and brown and cold.So that might push spawning back on a few of the, the rivers around me. Some of the, the smaller bodies of water aren't experiencing that high water, so they might be pushed to the spawn a little bit faster.

Marvin Cash00:01:20

Well, there you go. And so, you know, for your awesome three weeks on the water, what were you seeing?

Brendan Ruch00:01:26

It started out with high water and very predictable fish hanging on, you know, just hanging where you think they'd be hanging in high water. Eddies, seams, mid river structure. As the water started to drop out, the, you know, the fish were less concentrated.So you're hitting as many spots as you can, like as many likely spots. Kind of like, like I'd be in a pool for three hours just like hitting every good spot or, you know, big boulder I knew of in that pool.And, you know, eventually we're getting consistent eats off of each spot, but just not, you know, we're not picking up like three fish in the spot like we were when, when the flows were twice the size. Um, but yeah, I had, I had some people who, you know, listen to this and participate in Log Jam. Live out from southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio.And we had some killer days, four good days with those guys. Yeah, a very strong start to the, to the season for us.

Marvin Cash00:02:26

Oh, very cool. So you say southeast Michigan. Any boys from Schultz Outfitters?

Brendan Ruch00:02:31

Schultz Outfitters. Customers. Yeah. Yeah. So they were, they, they came out as, you know, clients well, very cool.

Marvin Cash00:02:37

And we got a question for you from Rodrigo. He wants to know when are we going to see some more step by step patterns? And thanks for hooking me up on the acronym.And he also, he also wanted to know if you have any new flies in the works.

Brendan Ruch00:02:53

Yeah. So the, the next step by step video is going to be for how I'm tying the, the nut job now.And that's going to come out this week on The Schultz Outfitters YouTube channel. We filmed that back in early February. And I don't have, like, patterns in the works.I do have a single nut job, which I've, I've given him the, the recipe for. But, yeah, I might, I might make like a little blog post or something or just like an Instagram post with the, with the single recipe.So it's pretty simple. It's the same steps, just a little bit different. Different framework for that. But that fly's been doing well for me on the clearer days.

Marvin Cash00:03:32

Yeah. And just for, you know, folks that don't know, I know a ton of people do because I'm seeing it all over the Internet.But why don't you describe your, your invention for everybody?

Brendan Ruch00:03:43

So it's less of an invention and more of just combining all the aspects of like, I guess, four patterns that I really like, fishing and tying. So you've got like circus Peanut Bly boy, Lafus Brush head deceiver, and then Pinchkowski's Bad Hair Day.So took the craft fur from the bad hair day as like the, the veil using prop, kind of like a leggy boy with obviously a bunch of legs. And it's on that like, shank hook, hook platform with a mono bead connection.So took that from, you know, tying and fishing the Lavkus Brush head deceiver for the last, like, five years. And all of those patterns are pretty much on a peanut platform, I would say.So it's got a big marabou tail similar to how Russ ties his peanuts and how Mike ties the leggy boy. So, yeah, it's a combination of all those things and it's been working really well.I think Austin down in Virginia has like four fish over 20 on nut jobs. I've got three. Yeah, it's just, it's been producing and it's just a little bit easier for people to cast.

Marvin Cash00:04:53

Yeah. And you were telling me, too, it also solves the problem between, you know, Covid and bird flu, making feathers insanely expensive.

Brendan Ruch00:05:02

Yeah. Yeah. It's nice to burn through a patch of craft fur and know that there's going to be craft fur tomorrow if I go to the fly shop. So that's.That's one nice thing about it. But feathers are still coveted, you know, in my heart. So I don't know.Every time I tie a fly, I'm like, well, that's one less fly I'm getting out of this saddle.

Marvin Cash00:05:22

Yeah, I know. They've got awesome hen saddles at TCO and State College. Cause I. Every time I'm up there, I usually end up buying about a half a dozen.

Brendan Ruch00:05:30

Yeah, George usually keeps a good inventory there. And obviously the hen saddle plug is going to be Mike and the boys in southeast Michigan at Schultz Outfitters. They've.They seem to get their hands on a lot of them.

Marvin Cash00:05:42

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, so, folks, we love questions on the articulate fly. You can email me or DM me on social media.If we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly swag. And that very well may include a sticker for the new butcher shop podcast.And actually, to record this, I just took a break from editing my interview with Tommy lynch, which should drop later this week, and we take a deep dive into the drunk. But, Brendan, you wanted to have an interesting kind of our first ever Roosh report pattern promo. You want to tell folks about it?

Brendan Ruch00:06:17

Yeah, I think, like, there have been a lot of people tying nut jobs for the last, like, couple months once that Eric's video dropped. And it's really cool to see. And I would like to, I don't know, give. Give someone a roof angling hat. So if.If you want to make a post, you know, with a nut job that you tied and tag me and the articulate fly, and then I will choose a winner, and then I'll ship you a rouge angling hat of your choice.

Marvin Cash00:06:47

That's cool. So that even includes the dad hat, right?

Brendan Ruch00:06:50

Oh, yeah, we got dad hat, full mesh, flat brim. And then I might have a rope hat left.

Marvin Cash00:06:57

There you go. And you might have sweatshirts, too, right?

Brendan Ruch00:07:00

Yeah. Depending on what size you are. I think I have to do another. Another order of those. But, yeah, I do have. I do have hoodies.And if you would be interested in a hoodie, just reach out and I'll get you on the next order.

Marvin Cash00:07:10

Oh, well, there you go.And before I let you go and digest your quesadilla and stream Netflix or whatever you young kids do in the evening, why don't you let folks know kind of how to reach out, find you book a day and all that kind of good stuff.

Brendan Ruch00:07:23

Yeah. So I've got maybe three days left in May.So you can reach out to Brendan Roush on Instagram, Brendan Rush on Facebook, Roosh Angling on Facebook, and you can shoot me an email@rohanglingmail.com that's R U.

Marvin Cash00:07:40

C H. Oh, well, there you go. Well, folks, as I say, you know, it's pretty much warmed up all over the country at this point.You owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few. Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.

Brendan Ruch00:07:51

Take care, guys. Thanks, Marvin.