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S8, Ep 71: Fall Fishing Forecast: George Costa on Streamers, Hatches and Safety Tips · The Articulate Fly

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  Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly, 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 look and feel fantastic as always.
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  Marvin, how are you?
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  I'm just trying to stay out of trouble.
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  And you know, it's kind of funny like we've started cooling off down here.
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  I looked at your weather.
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  You're kind of ahead of the game in terms of cold, rainy fall weather, and you were telling me it kind of messed up your striper trip.
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  Yeah, we got Northeast is getting pretty big storm up there this weekend.
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  So I think the saltwater front this week is shut down in the entire northeast.
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  But here in Central PA we're having a little bit of wind yesterday and we had our rain three, four days ago out here.
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  So everything out here in PA got now in Central PA got high and off color.
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  And right now everything is still running high and off color.
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  Most of the creeks around here well above seasonal where we are.
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  So we've got a lot of water going into fall, which will be a really nice thing.
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  Everything's on the drop, so stuff is going to be fishable this weekend.
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  Definitely high and off color.
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  So be careful waiting out there.
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  But I think we should have some good fishing moving into the next couple of weeks here.
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  Temps have been great, nice and cool water.
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  Temps not an issue.
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  We're starting to see, you know, some of those fall hatches.
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  Have you seen good amounts of ISOs, some tan caddis, a couple of October caddis are starting to peak up.
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  So I mean, we're right in the fall time, you know, just, just underway.
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  Had some streamer bites the other day.
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  Got a couple of fish that were nice and colored up.
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  So, you know, fish are definitely starting to feel that fall weather.
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  And we're going to get some good streamer water here in the next few weeks.
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  I think it's going to be great.
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  Yeah.
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  And we were talking before we started recording that it probably was a good time of year to remind people that they're not the only people out in the woods this time of year.
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  They are not.
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  Yes.
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  Thank you for reminding me.
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  Yep.
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  So hunting season starts pretty soon next week, October 1st.
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  So if you're on any Pennsylvania state game land and you're walking around, I do really recommend wearing a little bit of orange this time of year, especially back in Spring Creek Canyon once that opens up for, you know,
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  deer and pheasants and stuff back there.
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  If you're back there, wear a little bit of orange.
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  It's not a bad idea.
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  You know, who knows who's standing up at a tree stand or, you know, shooting some birds, you know, get yourself well marked out there and don't get shot in the face.
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  Not a good idea.
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  Yeah, not a good look for the 'gram, is it?
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  No, not at all.
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  Nobody wants to see that.
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  So, you know, I could bait you with.
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  I know it's too early for blackberry brandy, but I can bait you with pumpkin spice lattes.
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  I bet you've got classes and maybe a few sales going on in the shops.
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  Yeah, we've got a lot of stuff on sale right now.
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  All our summer stuff is on sale.
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  You know, our website's loaded with sale things right now.
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  Simms Grundens, Patagonia.
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  So lots of that and lots and lots of classes coming up this fall and winter.
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  We've got a ton planned here in State College.
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  We got a really good one coming up soon with Allen Rupp that we've got some space left for here in the Bryn Mawr and State College.
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  So check out our classes online at tcoflyfishing.com because if you want to take a tying class, some on the water classes, some specialty classes, all of our shops have got a bunch of offerings this year.
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  It's a great time of year to get out there and learn a little more.
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  Get yourself ready for the next spring season.
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  Yeah, and I would say too, folks, if you don't know, this Allen is Dave Whitlock's legacy tyer.
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  And I Isuspecthe's probably teaching folks how to tie some of Dave's patterns, right?
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  Yep.
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  He's going to do a streamer class.
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  He's going to do a Near Nuff sculpin class.
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  So it should be really good, really good chance to learn a lot from an outstanding tyer.
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  Well, there you go.
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  Well, listen, I don't want to steal your thunder because I know you've had a hard day today.
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  You want to let folks know where you're located, shop hours and all that kind of good stuff.
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  100%.
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  We are here in State College Monday through Saturday 9 to 6.
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  Sundays 9 to 3.
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  All of our other stores have similar hours.
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  And you can get us on the web at tcoflyfishing.com and we'll see out there.
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  Well, there you go, folks.
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  As I always say, you owe it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.
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  Tight lines, everybody.
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  Tight lines.
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  George.
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  Take it easy, Marv.