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

Marvin: and we're back with another Roosh Report with the man himself,

Marvin: Brendan Roosh. Brendan, how are you?

Brendan : I'm doing well. I can't believe it's already been two weeks since our last report.

Marvin: It's been two weeks and a day. I let you play hooky to go see the Phillies.

Brendan : Yeah, pulled out a wing. It was a great day to be at. I'm lucky to have a brother who can support me.

Marvin: And doesn't hate you. It's all good.

Brendan : Yeah.

Marvin: So, you know, it's interesting. I was looking at your weather before we started

Marvin: recording, and you guys being a little bit north of me, seems like you're kind

Marvin: of a little bit more into that fall transition, a little bit wetter,

Marvin: a little bit cooler. What are you seeing on the water?

Brendan : Yeah, the forecast is looking kind of wet and kind of cool.

Brendan : I still wish we would just get a big dump of rain, blow everything out,

Brendan : and just give us some water.

Brendan : But yeah, I mean, at least we're going to be getting a little bit of water in the systems.

Brendan : The last week was very low.

Brendan : Depending on where you were, there could have been lots of grass,

Brendan : but every cast was either grass or a bass. So fish have been very willing to eat.

Brendan : Getting them on bait fish flies, fishing some dead drifted, weighted crayfish

Brendan : stuff, or even just like modified bugger stuff.

Brendan : Um, but for those who are, you know, willing to throw a spinning rod,

Brendan : like you have a hundred fish days, letting, letting something hit the bottom,

Brendan : as long as it's under three inches long and green pumpkin.

Marvin: Yeah, there you go. Just bottom bouncing stuff, right?

Brendan : Yep. Yeah. My, my thumb is almost recovered, uh, from, from a couple of days

Brendan : ago. It was just a sleigh fist.

Marvin: Yeah. It's good to have those every now and again. And so, you know,

Marvin: in terms of, you know, particularly when you're fishing at various places in

Marvin: the water column and you've got crap in the water, which happens,

Marvin: you know, with Dustin, who's out in Wyoming on the North Platte,

Marvin: you know, what are some tips for folks that want to kind of,

Marvin: you know, fish in the grass and not lose their minds? Yeah.

Brendan : Well, if you're going to be fishing, like bringing a fly back to the boat,

Brendan : you're going to get grass way too often and you're most likely going to lose your mind.

Brendan : So one of the big reasons why we were bottom bouncing, like some clients come

Brendan : out and they just want to spin fish and some clients are just open to it.

Brendan : It so uh you know fishing parallel

Brendan : to the boat dead drifting almost nipping per se with like a bottom bouncing

Brendan : bay whether it's a net rig or a tube or uh some other soft plastic you're not

Brendan : going to pick up grass nearly as often as bringing something back to the boat that makes sense,

Brendan : so that that lure is just getting down and then

Brendan : bouncing in a line and then when you reel it in you're going to get grass every

Brendan : time just at the end of your retrieve so you pick that grass off cast it back

Brendan : out um but honestly most of the time you before you're done your your drift

Brendan : you're going to catch a fish whether it's five inches long or 19 you know yeah.

Marvin: Got it and i guess you know is with the water being low are you able to if you're

Marvin: uh you know fishing the fly to basically use a slap to get all the crap off

Marvin: of your fly or do you actually have to bring it all the way in and kind of clean

Marvin: it off to keep from scaring the bejesus out of the fish.

Brendan : I'm not a huge fan of flapping, mostly because the eelgrass will usually come

Brendan : off with the first false cast if you stop it hard enough.

Brendan : Or if you're not capable of doing that, I'm more than happy to take it off the hook.

Brendan : We've been dealing with a little bit of an algae bloom on one of the rivers,

Brendan : and that stuff's kind of like snotty hair.

Brendan : Uh so that i've been you know having to take off for people or they're taking it off,

Brendan : but uh yeah not a huge fan of the slap when you can see down eight feet in the

Brendan : deepest hole on the float and uh bass are spooking off the boat turning 50 feet away yeah.

Marvin: You know because you got your uh you know your sonos on the boat rocking the

Marvin: uh the morrissey scares the hell out lot of them right.

Brendan : You know i had i had a really good day uh with slick whitman from housefly,

Brendan : uh and we were we were playing some very chill

Brendan : music some graham parsons some willie nelson uh that

Brendan : wasn't sean's choice he doesn't really know anything about music but uh our

Brendan : buddy adam naples had that uh that country vibe going but yeah we didn't scoop

Brendan : any fish on that we actually the biggest fish of the week that day but um yeah

Brendan : i still don't think a mild volume speaker will scoop fish but others will disagree with me yeah.

Marvin: Well you know if you put that powered subwoofer in the bow um you know that's

Marvin: a problem um but uh you know it's funny.

Brendan : Yeah we've been up to your other boys in michigan yeah.

Marvin: Exactly the um you know just you know

Marvin: run it off the trolling motor it's all good um the

Marvin: uh you know it's funny uh all of your your fishing buddies uh they have a hard

Marvin: time coming up with serious questions i think i told you before we started recording

Marvin: i probably had a dozen kind of silly non-serious questions and the one we landed

Marvin: on is uh from cory rubin and he wanted to get your thoughts on your favorite

Marvin: post-day meal and your favorite on-boat snack.

Brendan : So favorite on boat snack, uh, just kind of happened to grab a fistful of dried

Brendan : pineapple and a fistful of, uh,

Brendan : the cons out of Chris Willen boat back in June.

Brendan : And they were kind of got mixed together in my left hand as he's motoring around.

Brendan : And I think that's my new favorite snack.

Brendan : Um, so I've been mixing them together when I can justify spending like $20 on

Brendan : a boat it's not but yeah the dried pineapple and pecans that's my new favorite thing,

Brendan : beef jerky is always good I find it hard to swallow that pill also as far as

Brendan : like paying for it but my two thing is just ground mix,

Brendan : and yeah post meal post fishing meal I don't know,

Brendan : Most of the time, it's Chipotle, but I prefer steak for sure.

Marvin: There you go. It's kind of funny because I hear you talking about all this health food stuff.

Marvin: I see you undercover wearing Birkenstocks and some kind of macrame poncho at

Marvin: the local health food store.

Marvin: Buying twigs and berries and bulk.

Brendan : Well, don't worry.

Brendan : I supplement all of this with a healthy dose of Reese's Cups.

Marvin: Yeah, there you go.

Brendan : Just to keep me at a nice pudgy level.

Marvin: There you go. You don't want to get to fighting weight too soon.

Marvin: So, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.

Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media.

Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.

Marvin: And by the way, the burner accounts, they seem to like not want to send me their

Marvin: address, which is kind of funny.

Marvin: But I'll send you some Articulate Fly swag. And then we enter a drawing for

Marvin: a cool kind of swag bundle from Brendan that's got, you know,

Marvin: roof shangling stuff, house fly stuff, and log jam stuff.

Marvin: Stuff and uh you know like i always do brendan we're always looking forward

Marvin: um trying to help people find you to get in the boat uh you know what do you

Marvin: have open and how should people reach out uh.

Brendan : I've got some scattered days available in october um i'd love to do some some

Brendan : twin fly boats uh so yeah reach out on instagram at brendan roosh on facebook

Brendan : at brendan roosh and roosh angling.

Brendan : Yeah, we're kind of in the twilight of the 2024 bass season here,

Brendan : and it's going to switch over to muskie pretty surely.

Brendan : So, if you want to get out for a big fat fall, small mouth, now's the time to do it.

Marvin: Yeah, any parking lot tattoos, trash cleanups, anything like that you need to share with folks?

Brendan : No events on the horizon as far as I know.

Marvin: Well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, as I always say, yo it to yourself

Marvin: to get out there and catch a few. Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.

Brendan : Take care, everybody. Thanks for having me, Marvin.

Marvin: You bet.