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S6, Ep 72: Cooler Temps and Steady Bites: A Central PA Fishing Report with George Costa · The Articulate Fly

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  Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,
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  Marvin: and we're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with my main man,
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  Marvin: George Costa of TCO Fly Shop and State College. George, how are you?
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  George: I am amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?
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  Marvin: I'm just trying to stay out of trouble, and I'm so happy that you're adequately
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  Marvin: caffeinated this morning.
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  George: I certainly am. I certainly am.
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  Marvin: Any sort of like kind of hippie, organic, you know, bean combo you want to share with our listeners?
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  George: Nope, nope, nope. Just too much of it. Just too much coffee today.
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  George: I might need more. I'm starting to come down off my high.
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  Marvin: Yeah. You know, it's funny, you know, we're roasting down here in the southeast.
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  Marvin: I think it was almost 100 degrees down here yesterday. I look at your weather
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  Marvin: and you're like, damn, you're in the 70s and you got rain.
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  George: I know. We finally got a little cool off this week, which was nice.
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  George: We got some overnight showers, some thunderstorms up north from us.
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  George: Got a bit more rain than we did down here.
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  George: But we got a nice little splash of rain, which bumped the levels up a bit,
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  George: added a little bit of color.
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  George: But everything here in central PA or Big Four streams, spring,
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  George: Penns, Jay, and Fishing Creek Hole are still in great fishable shape.
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  George: So the cooler temperatures are nice and welcome this week. Last week we were
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  George: roasting and fishing was kind of slow.
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  George: Cooler temps this week will help to keep those water temps down.
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  George: We're definitely still temping midday.
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  George: The Jay and Penns are really still on the lower side, especially the Jay.
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  George: So still take those temps midday over 68 degrees or refrain from fishing.
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  George: And the fishing has been pretty solid early morning. We're starting,
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  George: we just got a lot of little summer quills.
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  George: Olives are spinning in the early morning. I'd say, you know,
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  George: 9 to 11 has been best on most of the streams around here.
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  George: There's tank hatties around. Cahills are still coming here and there.
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  George: There's a good deal of stoneflies flying around you
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  George: know fish early morning and late in the evening for them so
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  George: we've got some nice golden stones buzzing around which makes
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  George: for dry dropper techniques to work really well and the terrestrial game is really
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  George: picking up search for those ants search for those beetles and uh fishing has
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  George: been steady all week so nymphing same you know usual suspects you know your
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  George: smaller mayfly patterns scuds sow bugs sunken ants things like that are
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  George: working great and the streamer game has definitely shifted to the low light conditions.
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  George: If you want to fish streamers right now, you know, early morning,
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  George: late evening into the dark has really been, uh, where you want to be.
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  Marvin: Got it. And got a question for you from Ryan. He wanted to know if hoppers are
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  Marvin: effective in central PA.
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  George: Um, they can be, but it's definitely more of a late summer and fall game.
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  George: It's still a little early for them. And we don't see a lot of hoppers out here.
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  George: We're much more riparian as opposed to like a meadow environment that you find on Western water.
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  George: So we don't have anywhere near the numbers of hoppers that they would have out on Western waters.
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  George: Um, but in late summer, early fall, you know, August through let's say early
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  George: October hoppers can definitely be viable, but you're really going to want to
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  George: focus on fishing them in more meadowy sections of stream.
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  George: Hoppers don't tend to like the woods and most of the tree-lined streams that
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  George: we have here, but there's definitely certain sections on rivers around here
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  George: that are going to see more grassy, meadowy thing.
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  George: A lot of smaller roadside streams, you'll always have hoppers along the roadsides, I found.
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  George: So really, you've got to kind of look for those grassy patches,
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  George: And that's where you can expect to see hoppers and fish them effectively,
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  George: definitely more towards late summer.
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  George: If you want to fish like a cricket, a beetle, or an ant, those are going to
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  George: be way more of what we see here in our streams.
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  Marvin: Yeah, what's your favorite cricket pattern?
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  George: I'm doing a little black cricket is fine. You know, nothing fancy.
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  George: I think like Dave Hopper cricket, something like that. I don't fish a ton of them.
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  George: But, you know, I do like some of the Greelos Hamburglar for beetles.
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  George: You know, an old-fashioned crow beetle works great around here.
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  George: And anything like that works really good. And something not too big either.
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  George: I like most of the beetles and stuff like that are going to be,
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  George: you know, a size 10 through 14.
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  Marvin: Got it. And, you know, folks, we love questions on the Articulate Fly.
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  Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media.
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  Marvin: You can also record your question if you go to the ArticulateFly.com website
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  Marvin: and go to the podcast page. And, you know, we might actually,
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  Marvin: you might actually hear your question read to George.
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  Marvin: That's something we just rolled out relatively recently. And yeah, kind of cool, right?
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  Marvin: It might induce all kinds of chicanery.
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  Marvin: So, you know, and if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly swag.
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  Marvin: And we are drawing for some cool stuff from the shop at the end of the summer.
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  Marvin: And I know you're kind of out of the thick of your kind of spring fishing season,
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  Marvin: George. But I imagine you might have something going on around the shop,
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  Marvin: maybe a sale, maybe some class spot, something like that.
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  George: We sure do. We got a couple of really good brew and bugs events coming up here in Fay College.
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  George: I'm focusing on some smallmouth pattern that will be tying. We definitely,
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  George: a lot of guys here are shifting towards smallmouth for the summer.
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  George: So check out our website. Those dates will be posted soon on TCO's website,
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  George: tcoflyfishing.com. and keep an eye posted on our education tab as well.
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  George: We're going to have our fall classes, winter classes, probably up within the
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  George: next few weeks for, you know, our steelhead classes that we do every year,
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  George: summer smallmouth and fall streamer trout things.
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  George: You know, it's right around, you know, it's creeping up the class season.
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  George: So check out the website.
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  Marvin: Yeah, and I'll pretend to be George and you guys are open. I can't remember
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  Marvin: your address exactly, but I do know you're open Monday through Saturday 9 to 6 and Sunday 9 to 3.
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  Marvin: Similar hour you're hired dude so hired similar hours at other locations indeed,
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  Marvin: well folks as i always say you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch
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  Marvin: a few tight lines everybody tight lines george take it easy.