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S8, Ep 79: Fall Fishing Forecast: George Costa on Conditions, Caddis and Catching Fish · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  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 am amazing as always, Marvin.
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  And how are you?
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  And as always, I'm just trying to stay out of trouble.
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  And looks like the.
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  The mercury's dropping in your neck of the woods and not a lot of rain.
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  What are you seeing on the water?
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  Conditions are definitely getting chilly.
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  Mornings have been cold, so fishing has been a little better when it's warmed up in the afternoon.
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  We're seeing temps in the low 30s for the past couple days.
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  So early morning's been a little on the slower side as it's warming up.
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  We're still seeing some caddis.
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  We're still seeing some olives.
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  There's still a handful of October caddis around on the dry fly from not.
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  Not a lot of stuff going on the dry fly front.
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  I mean, you can beat the water with a caddis all day and maybe get lucky, but nymphing has been pretty good.
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  Streamers early and late have definitely been moving some fish.
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  You know, fish are getting ready to start building some redds.
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  I'm surprised we haven't seen any yet with the colder temps, but I think in the next week to two weeks, we're definitely going to start seeing redds pop up.
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  So be aware of that.
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  Don't fish to actively spawning fish and just avoid those areas there.
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  The fishing's been okay.
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  It's not been great.
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  A lot of leaves falling from the trees right now, so getting a good drift has kind of been a challenge.
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  Water conditions are low and clear for the most part everywhere.
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  Not a lot of rain in the forecast.
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  So typical, like late fall.
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  You know, actually it's kind of still early fall, but, you know, typical conditions for this time of year may be a little chillier than normal.
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  So you really got to work the water and take your time, work in the water to find those fish that are actively feeding.
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  Gotcha.
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  And so for folks that don't know what a redd looks like, you want to let them know.
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  Yes.
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  A redd is like a little clear patch of rocks that look like they've all been shiny and polished.
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  So if you're walking down the stream and you see some rocks that look like, you know, they're all shiny, like in a little patch there.
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  That is a trout spawning bed.
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  So if you see fish, fish on that, they're actively spawning, leave them alone.
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  They're doing their thing.
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  And if you see one and there's not fish on it, don't walk on it.
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  Because there may be trout eggs on there and you're stepping on the little baby.
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  Baby babies.
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  So just be aware of that.
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  Look, for those, you know, especially going through for the next couple of months, you know, typically, you know, heavy spawning is going to be end of this month, November, December, it's January, you'll still see them.
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  So just avoid those areas.
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  Don't fish the trout on those areas.
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  You know, if you're like, oh, I saw a 28 inch trout, you know, in middle of the, that fish is spawning.
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  So leave it alone, let it do its thing.
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  You know, you wouldn't want somebody crashing into your bedroom.
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  So leave that fish alone.
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  Yeah, it's interesting too because I mean that, you know, fish into those fishes ruined a few fishermen on Instagram, right?
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  Oh, for sure.
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  You know, people like doing that.
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  Look what I caught in the middle of November, you know, in the middle of the day.
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  That's because that fish is spawning.
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  Yeah.
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  So let's, let's not, let's not try to be Internet heroes.
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  We don't need that.
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  Nobody wants that anymore.
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  Go do your own thing and leave those fish alone.
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  Don't worry about what somebody else thinks of you.
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  Yeah.
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  And so in terms of bite window, are we getting chilly enough now where it's like, you know, maybe start fishing about 10 o' clock in the morning because.
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  Yeah, for sure, for sure.
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  I think with these colder mornings, like, you know, get out a little later.
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  You know, if you want to get out there early, that's the time to use streamers.
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  I'd say, you know, daybreak up until, you know, you know, 8, 9, that's when you're going to get, you know, when the sun is still low on the water, that's when you're going to move more fish on streamers
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  rather than bright sunny days.
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  And then, you know, your nymphing has been best.
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  You know, I would say bite window.
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  The past week or so I've been out on the water a bunch, has been a little better.
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  You know, one to like 4pm when the water's warmed up a little bit.
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  Got it.
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  And what you got going on in the shop?
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  All sorts of fun stuff.
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  Lots of classes coming up this fall in all of our locations.
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  We got a lot of tying classes, we got brewing bugs next week.
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  All the other shops have a bunch of classes up there.
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  So definitely worth looking to see what sort of classes we got going up there.
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  If you got time to get any, to hit up any of our locations and take some of those great classes we offer.
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  Please look online and do so.
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  Yeah, and I know you're loading up for Santa Claus, so you probably have gift guides and all kinds of stuff, right?
• 4:08
  Oh, God, you're already talking about Christmas.
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  Man, we ain't even at Halloween.
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  Slow your roll, Marvin.
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  But I'm sure that is right around the corner.
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  Well, gosh, I mean, I went in Lowe's the other day and they had Halloween and Christmas stuff, so.
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  I know, I know.
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  Yeah, we're mixing.
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  We're mixing everything up.
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  I don't know what day of the week it is.
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  Yeah, but it's still too early for BlackBerry brandy.
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  Not yet after Thanksgiving.
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  Fair enough.
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  Well, listen, why don't you let folks know shop hours, location and all that kind of good stuff?
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  Absolutely.
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  So here at 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, so hit up a TCO for all your fall fly fishing needs.
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  Well, there you go, folks, as always, say, yo, it's yourself to get out there and catch a few tight lines, everybody.
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  Tight lines.
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  George.
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  Take it easy, Marv.