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S8, Ep 75: Autumn Angling Insights: George Costa's Tips for Central PA's Changing Waters · The Articulate Fly

• 0:00
  Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly.
• 0:06
  We're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with the man himself, George Costa.
• 0:11
  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 took a peek at your weather.
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  You're cooling off.
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  You're getting those nice nighttime lows.
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  You're going to get some rain this weekend, so things ought to be looking pretty good, right?
• 0:25
  Yeah, I mean, it doesn't look too bad.
• 0:26
  This past week's definitely been kind of on the slower side.
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  We're starting to get those leaves turning, leaves falling.
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  It's been a little windy, so a lot of leaves in the water make life a little difficult to get a good drift.
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  So a little slow this week.
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  Water is definitely starting to ease, you know, towards the lower side.
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  But we got a little blast of rain coming on Sunday.
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  Supposed to get about maybe half inch, maybe a little bit of more, which would be a great little bump.
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  Clear up the water a little bit and, you know, clear out those leaves a little bit, maybe add a little bit of color.
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  Should really get the streamer bite starting to pick up a bunch.
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  So otherwise, you know, dry fly action has been kind of hit or miss.
• 1:03
  There's caddis around, there's olive around, there's Isos around.
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  Haven't heard of too much good dry fly action lately.
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  Nymphs have been good when you can get it through the leaf piles and everything like that getting in the water.
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  So nymphing has been consistent, you know, on the wind.
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  The days where it's not super windy, streamer bites should definitely start picking up here pretty soon.
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  You know, traditionally we start seeing some early redds, like end of October, so just about time of year to really kind of watch out for them.
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  I expect start seeing some of them probably within the next two weeks, especially on Spring Creek.
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  They tend to start building redds there on the earlier side.
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  But, yeah, we're pretty much right in fall.
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  Temps are great.
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  Everything's great.
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  I mean, all things considered, we've had great water all year, so really no complaints.
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  Man, it's a great time of year to get out.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I'm sure you've got all kinds of stuff.
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  You probably, like, got the last of the seasonal sales going on in the shop.
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  You probably got a fully chocked class calendar.
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  You want to let folks know what's going on there.
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  Yeah, lots of classes going on at all of our shops right now.
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  We just had a bunch go up for our Reading location.
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  We've got a bunch of good tying classes, a bunch of good on the water classes here in State College.
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  So take a look at our website, tcoflyfishing.com under the Education tab.
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  You know, if you're near any of the stores.
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  We got a lot of stuff going on this fall and winter, so that should be great to get you out, get you tuned up and, you know, get you learning something that you maybe haven't thought of before.
• 2:24
  Um, yeah, and the sales are, you know, always got some stuff on sale.
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  We've got all our fall and winter stuff in here.
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  Shops are all fully stocked for the fall and winter season.
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  So yeah, come on to the shop and check it out.
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  There you go.
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  How many pumpkin spice lattes have you had so far?
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  17.
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  17 this morning.
• 2:44
  That might be why your anxiety level is a little bit high today.
• 2:47
  There's.
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  There's a list of things why it's.
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  High, but you don't want to share, do you?
• 2:53
  No, because we don't have that.
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  This is not the kind of thing we.
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  For that.
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  That's a different type of podcast altogether, Marvin.
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  You know that.
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  Yeah, it's an.
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  It's an inappropriate forum.
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  We don't.
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  We don't need to know why you have Ajita and why you're verklempt.
• 3:04
  Exactly.
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  Well, before I let you get back to.
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  To retail bliss, you want to let folks know shop location and hours and all that kind of good stuff.
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  Absolutely.
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  Here in State College, we're open 9 to 6 Monday through Saturday, 9 to 3 on Sunday.
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  All of our other shops are open similar hours.
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  Get us on the web at tcoflyfishing.com and get out on the water, man.
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  Fall is here.
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  It should be great time of year.
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  So go fish.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  Tight lines, everybody.
• 3:31
  Tight lines.
• 3:32
  George.
• 3:32
  Take it easy, Marv.