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S6, Ep 48: Rain or Shine: Central PA's Fishing Report with TCO Fly Shop · The Articulate Fly

• 0:03
  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 George Costa of TCO
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  Marvin: Fly Shop and State College. How are you doing, George?
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  George: I'm amazing as always, but a little wet today.
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  Marvin: Yeah, I was going to say, I took a look at your weather. I was actually shocked
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  Marvin: you got your guide trip in yesterday, but you're going to get kind of rained
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  Marvin: on probably, I don't know, six or seven of the next 10 days?
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  George: Yeah, they're calling for a fair amount. It started last night,
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  George: so we've probably got about a half an inch or so out there.
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  George: Everything is creeping up. So everything's getting high and getting off color.
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  George: The Jays are already blown.
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  George: Spring is on the rise. Penn's is on the rise. Fishing Creek's on the rise.
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  George: We're supposed to get the bulk of it today into tonight.
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  George: Tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday, we're only supposed to get maybe another tenth to a quarter.
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  George: so I think the rivers are probably going to creep
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  George: start creeping down by tomorrow night I want to be
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  George: optimistic about and say we're still going to be able to fish Sunday tomorrow
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  George: spring may be fishable along the edges I don't think it's going to get gross
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  George: like it did about a month ago but we definitely got enough rain to you know
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  George: put a damper on things for the for the foreseeable couple of days here so that
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  George: kind of that kind of stinks since our hatches are really starting to get strong right now.
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  George: We've had great sulpers, great March browns.
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  George: Tank had us have been good.
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  George: So we're right in the thick of it now. But, you know, this is this will happen
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  George: from time to time where you get a couple days where we can't fish.
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  George: But, you know, next week the long term forecast is still looking a little rainy.
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  George: But, you know, who knows? It's only 20 percent, 30 percent.
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  George: They start doing that and, you know, got to wait till a day out to really get
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  George: a good idea of what's happening.
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  Marvin: Yeah. So it sounds like probably maybe streamer fishing on Sunday,
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  Marvin: maybe jigging streamers on the edges is stuff like that?
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  George: Sure, yeah. You can definitely throw some streamers. I think that streamers
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  George: are going to be a good option.
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  George: I think that those, you know, little wormy patterns along the edges are going to be good options.
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  George: And, you know, plenty of fish move to the edges and if there's still good hatches,
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  George: you can still get plenty of dry flights in the dirty water.
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  George: You're just going to be fishing the skinny stuff where the fish can actually
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  George: see up and, you know, clarity is going to be key to dry fly fishing if anything
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  George: is available this next coming day.
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  George: So, got to just kind of pay attention to what's going on.
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  Marvin: Yeah, just step in and see if you can see your boots, right?
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  George: Exactly. If you can't see your boots, you probably should go see a movie.
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  Marvin: Speaking of, what do you suggest?
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  George: I have no idea.
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  Marvin: You got to prepare better than that, George. Oh, man, I'm not prepared. There you go.
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  Marvin: Well, you know, folks, we love questions at the Articulate Fly.
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  Marvin: You can email them to us or DM us on social media, whatever is easiest for you.
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  Marvin: And if we use your question, I will send you some Articulate Fly swag.
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  Marvin: And we will have a drawing for something cool from the shop at the end of the
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  Marvin: season. And, George, before I let you go, I guess a couple of things.
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  Marvin: One, I saw stuff on social media. You've got your new store up and running,
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  Marvin: but I know you've also got a fishing tournament coming up too, right?
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  George: Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we've got a couple of fun things. The Muncie store
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  George: up in the Williamsport area is up and running there. They've been open a couple weeks.
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  George: So if you're up in the Muncie Williamsport area, go and check out our new store
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  George: at the EuroOptics building there in Muncie, PA.
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  George: We do have our All Fins In tournament coming up. It's second week of June.
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  George: It's a fantastic tournament. tournament it is um
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  George: just great it's been this is the fifth year we've done it um super fun go catch
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  George: as many species of fish as possible in the pennsylvania central pa area we've
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  George: got a great turnout it's for a great organization we'll proceed to go to clearwater
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  George: conservation so a couple of really cool things coming up this spring and summer
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  George: um yeah that's about it yeah.
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  Marvin: And do you have i bet you have some uh learning to fly fish uh classes going on this summer too right.
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  George: If i I have any classes open. I mean, most of those things fill up.
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  George: We do have some classes available.
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  George: I think I have space maybe for my June class, but I'm pretty sure that my May class is full.
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  George: So check out the website, tcoflyfishing.com.
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  George: And we've got all the classes for all our stores listed on there.
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  Marvin: Yeah. And of course, if you wanted to book a guide trip, you should have done that yesterday, right?
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  George: You should have done that last month.
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  George: pretty much well.
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  Marvin: Before i let you get back to the joy and rapture that is retail and fly fishing
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  Marvin: you want to let folks know.
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  George: Uh yeah shop.
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  Marvin: Hours the location all that kind of good stuff.
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  George: Absolutely our hours um here in state college are nine to six um monday through
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  George: saturday nine to three on sunday all our other stores have similar hours um
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  George: check us out here or on the website, tcoflyfishing.com.
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  Marvin: Yeah, well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, you know, when the water drops, don't be stupid.
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  Marvin: Carry a waiting staff and be careful. You know, you owe it to yourself to get
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  Marvin: out there and catch a few. Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, George.
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  George: Take it easy, Mark.