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S6, Ep 35: George Costa's Easter Treats and Stream Beats in State College · The Articulate Fly

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  Marvin Cash: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the articulate fly. And we're
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  back with another central PA fishing report with George Costa from
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  TcO fly shop in state college. How are you, George?
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  George Costa: I am amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?
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  Marvin Cash: Uh, you sound super excited. Did you get a lot of cool stuff in your Easter
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  basket?
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  George Costa: I did. I got some Cadbury eggs
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  and I got some peep and all sorts of
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  teeth rotting stuff.
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  Marvin Cash: It was delicious. Awesome. What color peeps?
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  George Costa: The yellow.
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  Marvin Cash: That's the only true color.
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  George Costa: Everyone knows that.
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  Marvin Cash: You didn't do pink or lavender?
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  George Costa: No, no, just the yellow ones. I like the standard yellow
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  people.
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  Marvin Cash: And you strike me as an artisanal jellybean.
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  George Costa: Dude, that's too much for me. That's too much
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  stress.
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  Marvin Cash: Well, uh, you know, it may deal.
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  George Costa: With those popcorn flavored jelly beans. That's too much for my mind to
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  handle.
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  Marvin Cash: Uh, where you have to literally, it's like harder than, like,
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  identifying dry flies and spinners that have to lay the chart
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  out and, like, color match them crew exactly.
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  George Costa: I don't have that kind of time.
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  Marvin Cash: Yeah, so although you do have some time,
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  I, uh, looked at your weather and I mean, you know, east coast, we've gotten
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  ripped with a ton of rain lately.
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  George Costa: It is a h o t m m e
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  s s right now. We just about most of our
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  streams are at flood stage or above flood stage in the
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  past 24, 48 hours. Um, so
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  we have trash conditions right now.
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  Um, I just look, this morning took a little bit of a
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  little drive by the stream. Spring Creek is mess right
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  now. Little J is back below flood stage.
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  So it's, um, just gross, disgusting
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  water. Um, so for the foreseeable future,
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  I think that spring creek might be back into shape
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  by late this weekend. And by late, I'm talking
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  late Saturday, Sunday at the
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  earliest. Um, little juniata
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  pens. Um, is definitely going to be a little
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  later than now. We're looking maybe early next week, Monday,
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  Tuesday. Barring any more precipitation and
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  the trees doing their job and soaking up some of this water,
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  um, um, definitely going to be a few days till we can get back on the water.
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  Um, um, we. Before all this rain, we were really starting to
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  see some good bugs. Olives have been strong,
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  granums have been good on spring. And, uh, um, who knows what
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  this high water is going to do for the granums on the j and
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  pens. Uh, um, but I think that hopefully by
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  mid next week we should really start seeing these bugs
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  just blow up. We are supposed to get cold the next couple days.
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  But then we got a nice warm up spell coming, so
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  catch me next week, if I can, an accurate idea
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  of what's going on. But spring is here. We just got to get through this
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  high water and cold event and, um, um, just to get us over the
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  hump.
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  Marvin Cash: Yeah, sounds like streamer fishing. Sunday,
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  Monday, and then, you know, fingers crossed for dry
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  fly activity on maybe Wednesday, Thursday, next week.
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  George Costa: Yeah, we just got to see how everything comes back into shape. I don't
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  see much precipitation, uh, uh, in the next couple of days, we
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  got maybe some rain here and there. But, you know, barring
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  anymore, you know, three, four inches of rain like we just
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  got, um, um, you know, the rivers are going to take a couple days to get back into
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  shape.
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  Marvin Cash: God. Did.
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  Anything, uh, cool going on in the shop you want to share with
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  folks?
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  George Costa: Um, uh, not particularly.
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  Marvin Cash: We're loaded up.
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  George Costa: We definitely got a lot of inventory here ready for spring. We've
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  got a bunch of new fly patterns in, which are great. Um, um,
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  good week to really get caught up and get ready. You know, get those flies
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  tied for the, for the season here. You know, you can't fish. You might as well
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  tie some bugs and come in and check out the shop. Um, um, there's a
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  bunch of new, really cool new gear this year. Some really good new
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  rods to check out. The new Scott rods are awesome. Session
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  rods worth coming in and casting if you, if you haven't gotten a chance
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  to check those out yet. Those have been casting well for us. Um,
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  um, so, yeah, just, you know, loaded up, ready to go for the season.
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  Marvin Cash: Yeah. And I know you were, uh, one of the few retailers actually got
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  the hook up on the new Grundins too, right?
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  Yep.
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  George Costa: We got the new Grundins waiters in here. So we got all three
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  models. You've got a low, um, medium and
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  high end grundants. They're worth checking out too. Another great
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  option in the, the waiter arena. We're excited to have that brand on
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  board.
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  Marvin Cash: Yeah. And I imagine to you, I think last time we spoke you
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  were signing people up for learning to fly fish classes, right?
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  George Costa: This is true as well. We've definitely got some good classes this spring.
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  All of our tco shops have a lot of good beginners classes,
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  more advanced classes with dry flies. We do a euro class
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  up here in state college. Um, if you're new to the
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  sport, you just listening to ol Marvin here on the podcast and
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  you're like, maybe I'll try fly fishing. We got some really good
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  beginners classes, um, throughout the spring and all of our locations.
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  So check out the website under the education tab,
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  and you can sign up for one of those classes to expand, uh,
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  your horizon. We'll say yes.
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  Marvin Cash: We call that being fly curious.
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  George Costa: Oh, I like that very much.
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  Marvin Cash: Well, you know, folks, we love questions on the articulate fly.
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  You can email them to us, dm us on social media, whatever is
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  easiest for you. And if we use your question, I will send
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  you some articulate fly swag. And George will enter in a drawing
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  for some cool stuff from the shop. Then the season.
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  And, George, before I, uh, let you get back to it,
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  you want to let folks know hours and all that kind of good stuff.
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  George Costa: Absolutely. Absolutely. So we are here in State college.
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  Tuesday, I'm sorry, Monday through Saturday, nine to
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  six, and Sunday's nine to three. All of our other
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  locations about the same hours. Uh, on the web
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  tcoflyfishing.com.
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  Marvin Cash: Uh, well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, when the water drops,
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  get out there and catch a few tight lines, everybody. Tight
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  lines. George, take it easy, Mark.