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

Oh, hanging in there, Marvin. How are you doing?

Just trying to stay out of trouble. You've been out of the water the last few days, which is kind of good because you joined corporate America. I was a little worried about you.

Yeah, you know, it's trying. Trying new things. It's. It's time to try. Try some new things that people will refer to as adulting, I think like.

Insurance, 40 hour work weeks, things like that.

Yeah, yeah. I've heard that health insurance can be helpful at times.

There you go. So now I think you're, you're not embargoed anymore. You want to let folks know kind of what your new day gig is.

Yeah. So I'm lucky enough to be on the marketing team with Megabass of America. Um, so super stoked to be working for a dude named Patterson that I met years ago and things finally came together and very happy about the opportunity. It's been great so far.

Very, very cool. And I know you told me you've been out on the water the last few days. You know, what have you seen?

I've seen every rock because it hasn't rained in a month or two. But fishing was good. I mean, seeing fish around me rise as the anglers in my boat are fishing Ned rigs, which is, you know, what they plan to do. But yeah, I think had it been top water days, I think it would have been pretty good. But fish are certainly eating anything green pumpkin that is hitting a rock with a piece of lead.

Oh, there you go. Well, you're kind of. You stole Alex thunder. He wanted me to ask you, you know, when do you switch from the fly to the Ned rig in the fall?

It's never really like out of necessity. It's more like what do the anglers in my boat want to do? But I mean, if you're, if you're going for numbers, if the fish aren't eating on top, fishing a fly that emulates an ED rig is going to get you a lot more bites than fishing a popper. But if, if I'm fishing personally, like, I'll do that program. But if fish are eating on top, then the spinning rod doesn't see the light of day.

Yeah, it's interesting. I know down here in this part of the world, the bug fishing is getting extended because this week we're gonna like bump into the almost the 90s. And we're gonna maybe some rain at the end of the week, but it's kind of your typical low clear, you know, summer stuff. Even though today, I guess is the first day of fall.

Yeah. Yeah, we had a. A good burst of cold air in the beginning of the month, and it felt great. And yeah, it felt like July out there the last three days. So top water season continues.

Yeah. And so if you're gonna fish a ned rig like fly, what's your setup?

I think I talked about it last month, but like, those boogeyman flies are great because they'll fall vertically under complete slack.

And.

When they jig, they. Like when you jig them vertically, they have like kind of a. A nice upward sweep. And then we'll immediately kind of like turn back down because of those flanks. So it's a very erratic, almost like a stick bait, like TRD Zman. You know what. What I'm throwing on a Nedberg setup. But yeah, generally it's going to be the mini Boogeyman.

Old Kelly Gallop Montana Fly Company.

Yes, sir. Yeah, I buy those. In my. In my days of tying, all the time I was fishing changer crawls, which are also great for that. And I. I believe they're available now through the Chocolate Factory. So I would add that into the mix Changer crawl and Mini boogeyman.

Yeah. I would also say if you want to tie, you know, Blaine's got a bunch of great crayfish parts so that, like, you know, you know, let's just say Change your crawl 1.0. You're cutting strips of foam. And now they've got like, foam claws that are 3D printed that look awesome.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's right. They'll give you those nice points. And I believe there's a. A head that you can put over the short shank hook.

Yep, yep. And I think there may even be. There may even be some new jig shanks to. To keep you from having to bend the hooks too.

Perfect. Yeah. So give some changer curls a. A try.

Yeah. And so let's see. We've got. So you're famous, right? All your adoring fans are seeing you every Tuesday night at what, 8:35 ish on log jam. Right.

Most Tuesdays, 8:35 ish.

And I understand that they're like you've got a whole pyrotechnic setup. Cause you're tying at bobbin again and you. That was part of your contract.

Yeah. This year I haven't brought it up to Mike yet, Marvin. But yeah, we're hoping to get, you know, some at least a, a smoke machine at the desk.

Yeah, I mean, I guess what I heard from the guys is you were gonna get like a full blown kiss pyrotechnics thing going.

I think they're going to reserve that for the headliners, unfortunately. Maybe one day.

But rumor has it you may be tying there on Sunday too, right?

Yeah, yeah, rumor has it. Currently, I don't know the schedule, but that is the, the plan.

Yeah. And I do know, you know, as of a couple days ago, the golden tickets were already halfway sold out. So folks, if you are planning to, to go up there at the end of January, beginning of February for bobbin that weekend, you better get your golden tick. Be gone probably before Halloween, I would definitely imagine.

Yeah. And little Bob and plug here, like being a part of that event to me is crazy because I would be buying a ticket anyway. There's just so much knowledge packed in one room specifically, you know, around streamer fishing, but in other realms as well. Whether it's spay or, you know, you're dry fly fishing. But it's, it's a really good hang and there's just so many good people and I, I wish it was a 10 day event because you can't learn enough. There's just so many knowledgeable people there that started trends.

Yeah, it's an amazing, I mean, I think it's probably, I mean, gosh, it's got to have the highest concentration of fishy people in event anywhere on the planet, right?

I would say so. At least for, for what I'm into.

Yeah. I mean it's always interesting, right? You get to the end of Saturday and you're like, oh shit, I didn't get to talk to all the people I wanted to talk to. Right.

Yeah.

So you're in, you're in the throes of corporate America. You know, you got insurance, which is cool. You know, vision dental. That's good. But it's kind of, kind of messed with your guiding schedule. What do you have available kind of in the near future? Folks want to try to get on the boat with you.

I would say based on my schedule coming up, probably no availability until the spring. Unless you wanted to get out for like two days for muskie. But yeah, so my spring is currently undetermined, but I'm going to be booking, you know, repeats first and then we'll have some availability open up.

Well, there you go. And you know, as we talked before we started recording, we're going to draw from all the folks that submitted questions for this season of the Ruch Report. And why don't you let folks know what the lucky winner is going to win when we draw next time.

You're going to win a Ruch angling hoodie that hopefully. Hopefully I have your size. Please don't be a 3x and a Ruch angling hat. And I will get a. I'll buy a hat from Dave over at Log Jam as well. So two hats and a hoodie.

Any Reese's cops?

No, man, they're mine.

Fair enough. Well, listen, folks, as I always say, this time of year, you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few tight lines, everybody. Tight lines.

Brendan, Take care. Marvin.