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 : Doing all right, Marvin. How are you doing? Marvin: Just trying to stay out of trouble. Was goofing off a little bit last week on Marvin: the water, so I've been digging out today.
Brendan : Nice. Yeah, same here. I haven't spent the last two weeks on the home waters, Brendan : but luckily we missed some rain Brendan : and then we got pounded with rain um yeah i was up in canada having some fun Brendan : catching some largemouths and smallmouths a little bit of ditch pickle pike Brendan : but it was a great time up there yeah.
Marvin: I was gonna say if you picked a time to go out of town during guide season you Marvin: probably hit it just about right because i would imagine uh into last week for Marvin: sure was a complete washout right right? Brendan : Yeah, it went up. Uh, everything went up pretty high. Um, still very off color Brendan : and high right now. And, uh,
Brendan : push back the trips for this week. I'll be doing a, or helping out at a cleanup Brendan : on the Delaware with the Delaware river club and house fly fishing. Brendan : Um, that's going to be this Friday, Saturday. Brendan : And it looks like we're getting some more rain over the weekend in the south central PA area. Brendan : So hopefully it won't be unfishable next week. Marvin: Yeah, get all the dumpsters and trees out of the river, right?
Brendan : Yeah. Yeah, we'll get all the fresh tires that were rolled in near Hancock or Brendan : whatever deposit up in New York. Marvin: Yeah, something to look forward to. And so if folks wanted to get a little bit Marvin: more information on the stream cleanup, where should they go? Brendan : Um house fly fishing on instagram or the delaware river club on instagram got.
Marvin: It and so we figured since you've uh you've been out of the country uh fishing Marvin: that you know maybe a great thing to talk about for folks is you know what to Marvin: expect you know as the water drops and becomes fishable again like how are the Marvin: fish going to behave you know i assume they're going to come off structure a Marvin: little bit but you know why don't you share your thoughts on that with our folks.
Brendan : So i think what we're going to be experiencing Brendan : is a lot of Brendan : grass pretty much distributed throughout Brendan : the whole water column uh for a period of time that like i don't know how many Brendan : days it's going to last but um yeah you're going to be dealing with grass on Brendan : the banks for sure and And then it kind of stacks up and starts to die off. Brendan : And this is just from big blowouts this time of year in the past.
Brendan : So I think, yeah, I mean, fishing... Brendan : The usual stuff that I talk about, like that first drop, second drop, in the middle. Brendan : Just if there's grass on top, not fishing topwater, trying to get down below Brendan : the grass, maybe dead drifting with some twitches with a crayfish. Brendan : Or a little bit bigger baitfish pattern if the water's still off color.
Marvin: Got it. And then, of course, I guess maybe opt to fish more towards the middle Marvin: of the river if there's a bunch of junk on the edges, right? Brendan : Yeah. Either you know or you find where the first and second drop are or fish Brendan : bottom structure off the banks. Brendan : I'm just picturing a few years ago, there was just so much grass stacked up Brendan : on the banks from a big storm like we just had this time of year. Brendan : It's just like, I don't know.
Brendan : Someone was telling me that when the grass gets stacked up like that, Brendan : it just depletes oxygen in those areas. Brendan : Um, which makes sense, but I don't know. Marvin: Interesting. So anything in terms of like changes in presentation or fly color, Marvin: if you're fishing subsurface, I mean, rattles, anything like that you want to share folks? Brendan : Yeah, for stained water, you're fishing that drop.
Brendan : I mean, I'd be fishing black for sure, black and chartreuse, Brendan : that yellow, pink, and orange mixture. Brendan : That blend seems to work pretty well in that brownish-green water on the greener side of things.
Brendan : Just things that are going to be different from the grass that's floating down Brendan : or in the fall you know sometimes you get leaves uh tons of leaves in the system Brendan : so i think just trying to stand out while still imitating something is uh that's my advice there gotcha. Marvin: And uh rattles or no rattles uh corkscrew tails on flies anything like that.
Brendan : Yeah i'm a fan of a rattle um they They often break, but it always gives me Brendan : some confidence when a fly has one, especially in dirty conditions. Marvin: Yeah, there you go. And we have only non-serious questions this time, Marvin: which kind of works out since you haven't been on the water recently. Marvin: But I got a question from Sean, and he wants to know if you know what the term yardie means.
Brendan : Yardie. uh yardie is something Brendan : you say to your friends uh after you say something Brendan : that they should already know got it um so yeah i mean you know say what fly Brendan : are you gonna fish today sean you're gonna fish a nymph and he's gonna say yardie Brendan : because sean that's all he does is he nymphs so got. Marvin: It i didn't even have to ask you to use it in a sentence for me. Brendan : Oh yeah i got you yeah.
Marvin: So i think attack on that he had Marvin: he had was uh something about uh are you familiar with capri sun emojis. Brendan : Yes, so that's a juice box. Brendan : And then if you stack at least two juice boxes together in a comment or a text, Brendan : then that means that it's juiced. And juice is a good thing. Marvin: Gotcha. What if you had a juice box, an eggplant in a juice box? Brendan : That's bordering on dangerous territory. I'm going to leave that one alone.
Marvin: There you go. Marvin: Well, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly. Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media, whatever is easiest for you. Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag. Marvin: And then Brendan's got an awesome pack of Roosh angling stuff, Marvin: log jam stuff, and housefly stuff. Marvin: So send us your questions because we love them and it makes the show fun.
Marvin: And Brendan, before I let you go, you want to let folks know kind of how to Marvin: reach you, what's open on your guide calendar, all that kind of good stuff?
Brendan : Yeah, you can reach me at Brendan Roosh on Instagram. roosh angling on facebook Brendan : and uh i have some dates open in the first half of september, Brendan : and uh yeah i mean it should be should be a nice big start to the month with Brendan : all this water we have um i'm looking forward to getting out the end of august Brendan : here with a stacked schedule of guys that can fish a bug and hopefully we have water for that but yeah. Marvin: And it's not crazy hot right.
Brendan : Yeah and it's it's cold off and it's definitely not miserable outside anymore Brendan : yeah like the first half of the summer dude. Marvin: It was hot last week i'll tell you um and not a dry heat either um well you Marvin: know folks as i always say you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch Marvin: a few tight lines everybody tight lines brendan. Brendan : Take care.