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S8, Ep 58: Central PA Fishing Report: George Costa's Summer Strategies for Success · The Articulate Fly

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  Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly.
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  We're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with the man himself, George Costa.
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  George, how are you?
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  I'm amazing as always.
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  Marvin, how are you?
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  And as always, I'm just trying to stay out of trouble and you know, you were telling me things.
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  The water's up a little bit in your neck of the woods, but temperatures long term look good.
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  And you're going to keep getting a little bit of rain, right?
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  Yeah, I mean conditions are really not bad for the middle of summer.
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  We've got pretty good flows on everything.
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  We've had rain.
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  The J has been kind of blown out for the past few days with a bunch of rain we got over the weekend and it's still running pretty high.
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  So Little J is definitely high.
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  I would say probably unfishable for the next couple of days, especially if we get more rain.
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  But Spring, Fishing Creek, Penn's Creek, we're all in really good seasonal shape.
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  Night temperatures have been cool and day temperatures haven't been too bad.
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  So, you know, still want to check the temps midday.
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  But we're not like in danger zone right now just because the water levels are up.
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  That aside, fishing has still been, you know, you know, mid summer fishing here in Pennsylvania.
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  A lot of people are expecting a lot and there's not that much going on.
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  Mornings have still been the best time to get out.
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  You know, first light told 10, 11 o'.
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  Clock.
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  Have really been fishing well.
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  We've still got tricos her and there sporadically.
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  Spring Creek's been fairly consistent with them.
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  Some spots are better some days than the others, but those are pretty much bringing, you know, the best surface activity.
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  You're going to get handful of olives around, handful of small quills.
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  Terrestrial bite is, you know, picking up.
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  It's been pretty good.
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  Ants, beetles, if you want to search with that still this time of year, you know, I think a dry dropper is really the best strategy to use.
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  So fish like, you know, the size 12 or 14, chubby or a big beetle or something like that, drop a small ant or greenie weenie off the back and just search with those patterns.
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  You know, you're going to get more.
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  On the nymph and you'll have the occasional fish come up and, and grab the dry.
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  But I would say, you know, mornings and late in the evening have really been the best times to get out there and target some fish right now.
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  Got it.
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  And what you got going on in.
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  The shop now, all sorts of stuff We've got our fly fishing festival down in Boiling Springs this weekend.
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  So that's going to be a great event.
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  It's right at our Boiling Springs shop at Children's Lake.
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  That's Saturday and Sunday, if you're in the neighborhood.
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  Definitely worth checking out.
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  We'll have tons of cool stuff going on there.
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  Uh, we've got a bunch of good sales going on right now.
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  All our summer stuff is kind of getting ready to go out the door.
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  So some stuff's going on sale, so check out the sale page on our website if you want to get in on some good buys.
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  And other than that, you know, we're getting ready for fall.
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  It's almost, you know, almost that time we'll start getting all our classes, all our education up for this winter.
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  So keep an eye on our website for all those things when they pop up and yeah, get out and fish.
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  Smallmouth bite's been great.
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  River's been a little high.
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  The west branch has been high.
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  The J's been a little high.
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  But those guys are still doing pretty good down there.
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  So if you want to get out and fish here in PA right now, I mean, consider doing some smallmouth stuff because that's been, you know, doing pretty good.
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  And the top water bite's been pretty good from what I've been hearing.
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  Got it.
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  And so are you telling me that you're getting excited for pumpkin spice latte time?
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  I'm always excited for pumpkin spice latte.
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  That's all I think about all year long is pumpkin and spice lattes.
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  As you fondle your Starbucks gift card.
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  Right?
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  Very much so.
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  So for folks that are thinking about maybe heading to Boiling Springs, you know, obviously it's open to the public.
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  Is there an admission charge or anything like that?
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  Or is it just all fly fishing?
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  Fine.
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  That's all fly fishing.
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  Fine.
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  There is no charge to get in there.
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  Check out the website.
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  You'll get all the details.
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  But the event itself is free, so it should be a great time.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, there you go.
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  And I will not steal your thunder, George, but you want to let folks know location, shop hours, and all that kind of good stuff.
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  Absolutely.
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  Here in State College, 9 to 6 Monday through Saturday, 9 to 3 on Sunday.
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  All of our other stores are open similar hours.
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  And get us on the world wide web at tcoflyfishing.com.
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  Well, there you go, folks.
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  Like I always say, you owe it yourself to get out there and catch a few Tight lines, everybody.
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  Tight lines, George.
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  Take it easy, Marv.