Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of The Articulate Fly. We're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with the man himself, George Costa of TCO Fly Shop in State College. George, how are you?

I am amazing as always. Marvin, how are you?

And as always, I'm just trying to stay out of trouble. And you're eagerly awaiting a trip to the islands.

I am, I am. I will be on a plane in a couple days down to Andros with a group of clients to get catch some bonefish. It should be a most excellent time.

Yeah, it should be good, right, because you're not, you know, it shouldn't be super windy yet because that's going to happen in what, about a month?

It's always windy down there. I mean, I don't really, you know, pay much attention to the winds. I just assume it's going to be windy. You know, you just hope the guide puts your back cast on that way and you make do. You make do.

Yeah. I was just thinking about like, the shoulder seasons where it's like, let's just say, Wendy squared.

Yeah, that's usually right around now. It's. I always, I always get ready for the wind down there and just deal with it. You got to just deal with it.

Fair enough. And for all the folks that are. You're going to leave behind in State College, you know, you've gotten some rain and I think you're kind of on the same kind of warming trend we are maybe a little bit later. But what we're seeing down here in the mid Atlantic.

Yeah, we've definitely got a bunch of rain the next couple of days. We're supposed to get, you know, maybe close to an inch of rain in the next couple of days here. It's been raining for the past two days. Creeks are up on the low side, but definitely coming up. Spring Creek had a little bit of color today, and I'm assuming everything else has got a little color and is on the rise if we do get. I know today they're forecasting possibly three quarters of an inch. They're definitely going to get bumped up and off color, but, you know, we'll take it now. It's not a bad time of year to get that. That bump of water. We do have some warming weather coming up. Looks like it's supposed to start getting warm a couple days in the high 60s forecast for next week. And we have definitely been seeing some olives cranking. There's been a bunch. They are going off. Fish starting to eat on top We've got some little black stone flies here and there as well. So bug activity is just getting underway here and the fish are definitely going to start responding after a long cold winter. So keep your dries handy. Those small olives, 18 through 22s, some smaller little black stone flies and like 14 or 16, they're going to get fish on top. Nymphs are going to start really moving around. So the nymph game is going to be good for the next, you know, couple of months for sure. And guys were doing pretty good on streamers the other day with the water being up and off color. If you want to look for some bigger fish, throw stream around, especially in those cloudier days. So fishing is picking up. We're. We're looking good.

Yeah. And do you guys get kind of the. Something akin to the Mother's Day caddis hatch, like what we get down here on the Watauga?

That is going to be more of the granum hatch, I think is what we're going to associate that with. And that's going to be probably about a month away. End of March, early April is when we're going to start seeing those heavy caddis hatches and granums should, you know, traditionally, I would say last week of March, first week of April is when they're going to start depending on the water, temps, air temps. So we're still a few weeks away from that. I would say a good two and a half to three weeks out until we start seeing them. But they're right around the corner.

Got it. And what you got going on in the shop, you should let folks know about.

Just the usual shenanigans. All the new spring stuff's hitting all the stores here. We've got a couple sales going on. We've got a lot of good stuff on our used gear program right now. Can check that out on our website. Tons of rods, tons of reels, you know, some really good prices on some used and demo gear right now. Other than that, just the latest and the greatest. All the good stuff rolling in for spring. You know, some new fly patterns, you know, some new odds and ends. So getting ready to gear up and have another busy year here.

Yeah. And what about on the class front?

Class front here? We do have a couple still kind of coming up. Our classes are kind of starting to wind down for the year now as we roll into our busy season, but we still have some stuff here in state college. Most of our state college ones I think are pretty much sold out. We've got a couple more time classes, we might have one or two spots left. I've got my beginners class all year long. There's some spots left, I think, for maybe the May and June slots are available, but those are pretty much full. The other stores have a bunch of other classes going on, too, but definitely getting out of class season and more into fishing season.

Gotcha. And you know, folks, we love questions. You should send us questions because it makes George happy and we want to keep George happy, right? Yes. Yeah. And if you send them to me, DM me on Instagram or shoot me an email, and if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly stickers when you're drawing for something cool from the shop. And before I let you pack your bags for the Caribbean, you want to let folks know shop hours and all that kind of good stuff.

Absolutely. Here in State College, we are open Monday through Saturday, 9 to 6, Sundays, 9 to 3. All of our other stores are open similar hours. You can catch us on the web at tcoflyfishing.com and.

Well, there you go. And I know you won't be there, but a lot of the TCO crew will be in Lancaster next weekend, right?

Oh, my, yes, indeed.

We'll be there in. In force. Well, listen, folks, if it's warm enough to get out, get out and catch a few. Otherwise, tie flies. Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, George

Take it easy, Marv.