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S6, Ep 82: Central PA Summer Fishing: Tricos and Terrestrials with George Costa · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  Marvin: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly.
• 0:06
  Marvin: We're back with another Central PA Fishery Report with George Costa of TCO Fly
• 0:10
  Marvin: Shop and State College. George, how are you?
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  George: Amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?
• 0:15
  Marvin: I'm living the dream, and I know you are suffering from a little bit of vacation reentry.
• 0:20
  George: Indeed. Always need a vacation for my vacation.
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  Marvin: There you go. And so you were out on the Cape. What do they call them up there?
• 0:27
  Marvin: They call them stripas? Is that what they call them?
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  George: I believe so. I believe so, yes.
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  Marvin: And so did you catch any?
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  George: Yeah, I got a couple. Water was pretty warm up there, so, you know,
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  George: a couple fish, a couple bluefish, wasn't a bad time.
• 0:41
  Marvin: Yeah, so did you just basically leave the family every morning and go fishing on your own?
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  George: That's pretty much it. I got a couple hours in the morning to myself.
• 0:48
  Marvin: And then favorite vacation cocktail before we get down to business?
• 0:54
  George: Rum in a glass.
• 0:57
  Marvin: A short glass or a tall glass?
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  George: A tall glass maybe a little bit of lime on top.
• 1:03
  Marvin: There you go um it's kind of uh it's like a martini
• 1:06
  Marvin: version of a mojito right exactly and
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  Marvin: so you come back and it's interesting right you know it's been so hot on the
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  Marvin: eastern seaboard and it looks like you know at least temporarily temperatures
• 1:18
  Marvin: are broken i know we were comparing notes before we started recording that you
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  Marvin: know down here it's cooler and it's been pretty wet and you've had kind of the
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  Marvin: same thing up in central pa PA.
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  George: Pretty much, yeah. I mean, we got a good shot of rain over the weekend,
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  George: and a bump flows up a good amount on just about everything.
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  George: So the creek's got a little high and a little off color, but everything has
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  George: pretty much dropped back down to reasonable levels now.
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  George: So the levels are, you know, typical summer flows, slightly above average on
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  George: some of the streams, and just a little bit of color left from the weekend's rain.
• 1:53
  George: But the temps have been pretty good. We've had night temps down in the 50s and 60s.
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  George: So that's been pretty good. Um, and the day times have really not really got
• 2:02
  George: much more than mid eighties this week.
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  George: So that's really helping to keep the fishing a little more active.
• 2:07
  George: So temperatures still want to check midday, especially on the J,
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  George: especially on pens, because they definitely get hotter, but our spring's been
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  George: fishing well in the mornings, um, fishing Creek as well in the mornings have been good.
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  George: We've had trichos, um, early morning, you'll see them spinning and falling.
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  George: So the tricho hatch has been pretty solid so far this year.
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  George: um and then typical summertime you know stuff terrestrials ants beetles greenie
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  George: weenies crickets things like that have been working pretty well for everybody
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  George: fishing around here um and you know it's been good fishing but you know definitely
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  George: a morning game this time of year yeah.
• 2:40
  Marvin: And i would imagine too with the stained water probably small streamers don't kill you either.
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  George: Yeah not too bad i haven't had too many people fishing with streamers uh during
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  George: the day but i mean the water is still kind of low and you know definitely avoid
• 2:53
  George: those bright sunny days for streamer fishing this time of year the low light
• 2:57
  George: conditions are going to be better even if the water is cloudy i.
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  Marvin: Got it and i guess too right you probably are hearing good things from your smallmouth fishermen.
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  George: Yeah for sure the smallie bite has been great top water has been excellent on
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  George: all the smallie streams so if you can get out and fish for some bass i would
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  George: definitely recommend that yeah.
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  Marvin: Well there you go well you know folks we love questions on the articulate fly
• 3:20
  Marvin: you can email them to us or dm us on social media whatever is easiest for you
• 3:23
  Marvin: and if we use your question I will send you some articulate fly swag.
• 3:26
  Marvin: And we're going to be drawing for some cool stuff from the shop at the end of the season.
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  Marvin: And, George, before I let you go, you know, we're getting ready to cruise into
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  Marvin: that probably fall education, right?
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  Marvin: And stuff like that. You got stuff you want to kind of share with folks,
• 3:38
  Marvin: either upcoming classes, might have some, you know.
• 3:41
  George: Yeah, for sure.
• 3:42
  Marvin: Yeah, end of season sales, all that kind of good stuff.
• 3:44
  George: Absolutely. And we've got another Brew and Bugs schedule that Axe has been brewing
• 3:49
  George: on August 18th up here in State College. I'm sorry, actually August 15th in State College.
• 3:54
  George: So that's on the schedule coming up. We've got a lot of fall classes.
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  George: Just check our website for all of them.
• 4:01
  George: And we're here in the shop all the time. So swing by if you're in town and we'll see you soon.
• 4:06
  Marvin: Yes, it's what is it's nine to six Monday through Saturday, nine to three on Sundays, right?
• 4:10
  George: You got it. You could work here now. You can mop the floor at Marvin. You know the schedule.
• 4:13
  Marvin: It's always good to have something to fall back on, George.
• 4:17
  George: Right on.
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  Marvin: Well listen folks as I always say yo it to yourself to get out there and catch
• 4:21
  Marvin: a few tight lines everybody tight lines George.
• 4:25
  George: Take it easy man.