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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 here for the inaugural Roosh Report with none other than the OG Brendan

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Roosh himself. Brendan, how are you?

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Brendan:
Doing great. I'm fantastic. Thanks for having me.

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Marvin:
Yeah, it's awesome. And you got a great, you had a guide's day off today.

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Brendan:
Yeah, it's rare to have a day where I don't have to travel somewhere.

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So yeah, it was nice to wake wake up later than I'd like to admit and take care

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of some things and hang out.

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Marvin:
Yeah. In the PM, not the AM, right?

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Brendan:
Close to it.

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Marvin:
Good for you. And, you know, it's kind of funny because I talked to the guys

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at TCO in State College and, I mean, just like kind of everywhere,

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kind of on the Eastern Seaboard, we've gotten a fair amount of rain in the last week to 10 days.

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And I would imagine that's probably at a minimum wrecked your major tributaries, right? Right.

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Brendan:
Yeah, we got kind of pushed off of the larger rivers and in a good way,

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kind of, you know, got to get back to like April conditions on some of the smaller bodies of water.

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So it's been nice this year. it's kind of like once the tributaries start to

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get clear the bigger rivers are coming down kind of like right into like the

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prime like you know six inch fly water where it's like green like,

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four feet of visibility at most um and the big fish are just you know that's

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when they like to hunt so um and then when it rains again the tributaries are

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blown for a day or two and then And you're back in that prime water for at least a few days.

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Marvin:
Yeah, and I would imagine, too, even though you're a little bit farther north

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than some of the other folks I talked to about smallmouth, I'd imagine you are

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well on the other side of the spawn, and I would hope your bass are probably

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not sulky anymore, right? Yeah.

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Brendan:
The higher water kind of put some pep in their stick.

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Last week, a week and a half ago, we were getting some pretty skinny fish post-spawn,

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in faster current, prime feeding spots.

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The past few days, the fish really put on some weight in that high water.

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They're almost at pre-spawn weight. Some of the fins are showing a little sign

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that they were on beds recently, but the fish are They're killing big flies

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and, uh, feeling, feeling fat and happy again.

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Marvin:
Yeah. And so with the kind of the elevated water, does that kind of put them

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on structure and they're just basically, you know, chasing ambushy? Is that kind of the MO?

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Brendan:
Yeah, for sure. Um, like I had one of the best days of my career,

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uh, about a week and a half ago and,

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we were on some bigger water and first fish of the day was like a 19 and a half

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and it was on mid river structure, like just a giant boulder.

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And, um, that was kind of a good sign, like big post-spawn fish off the bed, back in the ambush zone.

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And, uh, yeah, that kind of like set the tone for the rest of the day.

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And a lot of those fish on the big river were just where they should have been.

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We're kind of like in, you know, late March water where they're kind of packed the pounds on.

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Marvin:
Got it. And so kind of from a gear and tactics perspective, you know,

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are you kind of, what are your fishing streamers sort of mid column,

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maybe with like, uh, intermediate lines? I mean, what's the,

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what's the, what's the game on the tactics?

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Brendan:
Yeah, with the water temps we have now, like post-spawn in the high water,

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the fish are much more willing to come up than they are in late March, early April.

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So we're fishing kind of like the same flies on intermediates.

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The pauses can be a little bit shorter than they need to be in early spring,

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which is cool because you get to see some fish that really want to commit and

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they'll kind of just do a complete 180 on the fly. So you get to see the whole profile of the fish.

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Um fishing either keel changers or like that leggy boy platform so like a small

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tungsten bead behind the brush head uh just to keep that fly from wanting to

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come up a little bit too high but definitely the top third of the water column.

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Marvin:
Got it and sort of as you know things clear and the water drops i mean i know

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it's a little early form to kind of spread out you know where should folks look

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if they want to find them let's just say in a week or so you know know,

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where, where are they going to migrate to as the water drops and clears out?

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Brendan:
Um, fortunately it looks like we have enough rain to keep flows kind of where they are.

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Um, but I think still like those, those mid river transitions,

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um, specifically in the, the Rocky rivers that we have here,

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uh, you might find some fish up on skinnier water,

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but I'm, I'm typically fishing that

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first real drop and the structure that relates

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to that um fishing pretty wide current seams when the water drops out not necessarily

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looking at like the small three foot wide seams on the bank uh just because

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there isn't much isn't much margin for error in there when the fish are dealing

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with birds of prey constantly got.

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Marvin:
It and so you know we're you know we're getting ready to cruise into the beginning

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of summer i guess officially with memorial day weekend coming up you know do

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you uh you know it's going to be probably what a good month or so before your,

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your top water fishing really kind of turns on.

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Brendan:
Right now, we're getting a lot of fish looking up for frogs and even some bigger,

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like the largest size boobabug, for instance.

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I'm not mentally there yet. I still want to see fish kill the biggest streamers possible.

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But if they start eating flies as soon as they hit the water,

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then we'll switch to a frog.

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But yeah, we're looking at maybe three, four weeks until it's prime topwater

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season. and, and, uh, kind of just like stick to the program,

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even if the morning isn't, or like the, you know, midday, it'll shut off on

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top water, kind of stick to the program.

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And usually you'll still get the larger fish looking up.

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Marvin:
Got it. And I guess, you know, are you in the, uh, are you in the middle of

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all the cicada craziness or is that not in your neck of the woods this year?

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Brendan:
Unfortunately, we're missing that this year, but, uh, it seems like a lot of

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people a little bit South of here, they're going to have a pretty good time.

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Marvin:
Yeah. Yeah, it's been pretty nuts down here in the Carolinas and Virginia.

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People have been tearing up bass, and they've been tearing up carp for sure.

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And, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.

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Marvin:
You can DM them to us or email them to us, whatever is easiest for you.

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And if we use your question on an upcoming Roosh report, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.

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And we're working on putting together the prize package from Brendan,

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but at a minimum it's going to have a bunch of Roosh angling swag and stickers,

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but I'm sure there's going to be some other cool stuff as well.

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And, you know, Brendan, before I let you go, you want to let folks know where

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they can find you on social media, book you and fish with you and all that kind of good stuff.

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And if you've got, you know, kind of open windows in your guide calendar,

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why don't you let folks know about those as well?

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Brendan:
Yeah, so you can reach me on Instagram at Brendan Ruch, E-R-E-N-B-A-N-R-U-C-H.

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I just started a Facebook page for the business. It's Ruch Angling. And...

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Brendan:
Yeah, my phone number will be in the show notes. And what was the second part

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of your question? I'm sorry.

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Marvin:
Let's see. Oh, open dates.

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Brendan:
Yeah, so I have some open dates spread throughout the summer.

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And if you want to get out and catch a bunch of smallmouth, we can certainly

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do that on sub-circus stuff.

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But summertime is a great time to kind of hunt a bigger fish on topwater.

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Water and uh yeah the rivers we have here are definitely well suited for that.

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Marvin:
Yeah very very cool and i also know you're famous you'll probably be tying with

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the log jam guys tomorrow night if you got kind of uh other places people can

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kind of catch up with you and kind of see what you're doing uh when you're not

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on the water um doing crazy stuff with bananas and stuff like that or listening to the Smiths?

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Brendan:
Yeah, so a few of my friends at Log Jam are crazy enough to want to tie flies

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with me every Tuesday night at 8.35 Eastern.

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So you can catch me there, and that'll be a pretty good time.

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Brendan:
I would imagine I'll have some, maybe a house fly piece and a Log Jam hat in the giveaway as well.

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Marvin:
Yeah, super cool. Well, listen, folks, Folks, you know, we are getting into

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that great time of the year where, you know, you don't necessarily have to put your trout right away.

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But there's some great warm water species you can chase on the fly.

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You owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.

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Marvin:
Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, Brendan.