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. How are you doing?

Brendan: Doing well, Marvin. Thanks for having me back. How are you doing?

Marvin: Oh, I'm just trying to stay out of trouble. And, you know, it's interesting.

Marvin: We were talking before we started recording, and dude, it's going to be a roaster in central PA.

Marvin: I mean, it's that bummer, right? The trout and the smallies are in the shade and you're in the sun.

Brendan: Yeah it's definitely not the best time to be

Brendan: on the water um during a heat wave under low water conditions things can get

Brendan: pretty tough um if i if i weren't going to be in wisconsin i would definitely

Brendan: be fishing the fringes like early morning and the evening for sure yeah.

Marvin: And i guess if you're testing you've got low water you've got all kinds of problems

Marvin: right because the fish are going to know you're there because you're pushing

Marvin: a lot of water water's probably clear any tips for folks to kind of make those

Marvin: issues go away a little bit.

Brendan: Yeah i'd be very um aware of what your fly line is doing on the surface specifically

Brendan: during like picking up for your next cast i see a lot of casts get picked up

Brendan: and put down in the same spot in the summertime the low and clear and it just doesn't make much sense,

Brendan: so you want to pick your cast up and then do a false cast or two to change your

Brendan: angle and then just try to jump down 15 20 feet if you're if you're drifting

Brendan: in a boat and if you're if you're wade fishing then you just want to strip in

Brendan: or let your fly swing out before you cast again.

Marvin: Got it and if the water's low does that mean you can't listen to music on the boat.

Brendan: You know marvin if you can't listen to music on the boat i don't want to be out there so fair.

Marvin: Enough uh well we got a couple questions for you right we've got our not serious

Marvin: question from instagram dh and uh he wanted to get all of your tips on catching fall fish.

Brendan: You know i've never targeted them personally but from a bycatch standpoint there

Brendan: are some pretty predictable spots uh you're going to be looking at,

Brendan: like runs after a riffle with some structure, basically trout water in a warm water fishery.

Brendan: And Graham actually caught an 18 incher about a month ago.

Brendan: So I think he just, I think he's just flexing right now. He caught a pretty good one.

Marvin: Yeah. So do we have to tell everybody that that was his fish that's been in the Instagram feed?

Brendan: Yes. Yeah. That was, that was his, his fall fish. And yeah, I wanted to show

Brendan: that off for him. He's a good guy, and it's good fall fish.

Marvin: Yeah, did you take it home and smoke it and eat it?

Brendan: No, we just ate it on the boat. I always carry soy sauce and wasabi.

Marvin: I really never thought about the sashimi. You know, down in the South,

Marvin: we just like grease and cornmeal, right?

Brendan: Yeah, we try to spice things up a bit in central Pennsylvania.

Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And then we got a question for you from John,

Marvin: and he wanted to get your thoughts on the tactics that you recommend for smallmouth

Marvin: when the water levels start to go up and the water gets a little bit of stain to it.

Brendan: Yeah so if we're talking fishing on the greener side of brown water um like

Brendan: not completely brown and with you know tons of debris um that's basically,

Brendan: gonna be like the spring program and if you're fishing maybe like really on

Brendan: the cusp of brown but there isn't a ton of debris like fishing flies that push a little bit more water,

Brendan: So something that has maybe a little bit of flexible resin on the head of a

Brendan: feather game changer, for instance.

Brendan: Or like fishing a fly that has a rattle and something that is going to kind

Brendan: of like glow a little bit, throw a little bit of light.

Brendan: So that might be a time where I'm going to pick a flashier fly over some of

Brendan: the more subdued flies that I typically fish in green water.

Marvin: Got it. And so do you, would you still stay with like a light color fly or do

Marvin: you like a darker fly for contrast in that situation?

Brendan: Generally, if the water is dirty enough that I can't see the fly that I'm fishing

Brendan: anyway, I'll, I'll go to like a black and olive or black chartreuse kind of

Brendan: configuration or just straight black because it really doesn't matter.

Brendan: But if you can get a couple feet of visibility,

Brendan: then I'm going to be starting off with like some sort of yellow,

Brendan: orange variation or pink, chartreuse, maybe straight white.

Brendan: And then if that doesn't work, then yeah, black is always the second choice there.

Marvin: There you go. And you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.

Marvin: You can email them to us. You can DM us on social media. And a relatively new

Marvin: thing, if you go to our website, thearticulatefly.com, in the lower right-hand

Marvin: corner on the podcast page, you can actually record your question.

Marvin: And if you record it, we may actually use it and read it live on the report.

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

Marvin: And Brendan has pulled together some Roosh Report, or actually,

Marvin: I guess, Roosh Fishing. You need to make maybe some Roosh Report coffee mugs or something.

Marvin: But but ruch report swag some house

Marvin: fly swag and some log jam swag and that's gonna be

Marvin: a pretty cool pack so you know folks send us your

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Marvin: you know give us a like and give us a review it really helps us out and Brendan

Marvin: before I let you go and watch I think you're telling you're gonna go watch Joe

Marvin: dirt tonight which I highly approve prove of.

Marvin: You want to let folks know where they can find you so they can book in fish with you?

Brendan: Yeah. ruchangling at gmail.com, ruchangling on Facebook, and Brendan Ruch on Instagram.

Marvin: Well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, as I always say, you know,

Marvin: stay cool, but you still owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.

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

Brendan: Take care.