Marvin Cash: Hey, folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the articulate fly. And we're
back with another central PA fishing report with George Costa from
TcO fly shop in state college. How are you, George?
George Costa: I am amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?
Marvin Cash: Uh, you sound super excited. Did you get a lot of cool stuff in your Easter
basket?
George Costa: I did. I got some Cadbury eggs
and I got some peep and all sorts of
teeth rotting stuff.
Marvin Cash: It was delicious. Awesome. What color peeps?
George Costa: The yellow.
Marvin Cash: That's the only true color.
George Costa: Everyone knows that.
Marvin Cash: You didn't do pink or lavender?
George Costa: No, no, just the yellow ones. I like the standard yellow
people.
Marvin Cash: And you strike me as an artisanal jellybean.
George Costa: Dude, that's too much for me. That's too much
stress.
Marvin Cash: Well, uh, you know, it may deal.
George Costa: With those popcorn flavored jelly beans. That's too much for my mind to
handle.
Marvin Cash: Uh, where you have to literally, it's like harder than, like,
identifying dry flies and spinners that have to lay the chart
out and, like, color match them crew exactly.
George Costa: I don't have that kind of time.
Marvin Cash: Yeah, so although you do have some time,
I, uh, looked at your weather and I mean, you know, east coast, we've gotten
ripped with a ton of rain lately.
George Costa: It is a h o t m m e
s s right now. We just about most of our
streams are at flood stage or above flood stage in the
past 24, 48 hours. Um, so
we have trash conditions right now.
Um, I just look, this morning took a little bit of a
little drive by the stream. Spring Creek is mess right
now. Little J is back below flood stage.
So it's, um, just gross, disgusting
water. Um, so for the foreseeable future,
I think that spring creek might be back into shape
by late this weekend. And by late, I'm talking
late Saturday, Sunday at the
earliest. Um, little juniata
pens. Um, is definitely going to be a little
later than now. We're looking maybe early next week, Monday,
Tuesday. Barring any more precipitation and
the trees doing their job and soaking up some of this water,
um, um, definitely going to be a few days till we can get back on the water.
Um, um, we. Before all this rain, we were really starting to
see some good bugs. Olives have been strong,
granums have been good on spring. And, uh, um, who knows what
this high water is going to do for the granums on the j and
pens. Uh, um, but I think that hopefully by
mid next week we should really start seeing these bugs
just blow up. We are supposed to get cold the next couple days.
But then we got a nice warm up spell coming, so
catch me next week, if I can, an accurate idea
of what's going on. But spring is here. We just got to get through this
high water and cold event and, um, um, just to get us over the
hump.
Marvin Cash: Yeah, sounds like streamer fishing. Sunday,
Monday, and then, you know, fingers crossed for dry
fly activity on maybe Wednesday, Thursday, next week.
George Costa: Yeah, we just got to see how everything comes back into shape. I don't
see much precipitation, uh, uh, in the next couple of days, we
got maybe some rain here and there. But, you know, barring
anymore, you know, three, four inches of rain like we just
got, um, um, you know, the rivers are going to take a couple days to get back into
shape.
Marvin Cash: God. Did.
Anything, uh, cool going on in the shop you want to share with
folks?
George Costa: Um, uh, not particularly.
Marvin Cash: We're loaded up.
George Costa: We definitely got a lot of inventory here ready for spring. We've
got a bunch of new fly patterns in, which are great. Um, um,
good week to really get caught up and get ready. You know, get those flies
tied for the, for the season here. You know, you can't fish. You might as well
tie some bugs and come in and check out the shop. Um, um, there's a
bunch of new, really cool new gear this year. Some really good new
rods to check out. The new Scott rods are awesome. Session
rods worth coming in and casting if you, if you haven't gotten a chance
to check those out yet. Those have been casting well for us. Um,
um, so, yeah, just, you know, loaded up, ready to go for the season.
Marvin Cash: Yeah. And I know you were, uh, one of the few retailers actually got
the hook up on the new Grundins too, right?
Yep.
George Costa: We got the new Grundins waiters in here. So we got all three
models. You've got a low, um, medium and
high end grundants. They're worth checking out too. Another great
option in the, the waiter arena. We're excited to have that brand on
board.
Marvin Cash: Yeah. And I imagine to you, I think last time we spoke you
were signing people up for learning to fly fish classes, right?
George Costa: This is true as well. We've definitely got some good classes this spring.
All of our tco shops have a lot of good beginners classes,
more advanced classes with dry flies. We do a euro class
up here in state college. Um, if you're new to the
sport, you just listening to ol Marvin here on the podcast and
you're like, maybe I'll try fly fishing. We got some really good
beginners classes, um, throughout the spring and all of our locations.
So check out the website under the education tab,
and you can sign up for one of those classes to expand, uh,
your horizon. We'll say yes.
Marvin Cash: We call that being fly curious.
George Costa: Oh, I like that very much.
Marvin Cash: Well, you know, folks, we love questions on the articulate fly.
You can email them to us, dm us on social media, whatever is
easiest for you. And if we use your question, I will send
you some articulate fly swag. And George will enter in a drawing
for some cool stuff from the shop. Then the season.
And, George, before I, uh, let you get back to it,
you want to let folks know hours and all that kind of good stuff.
George Costa: Absolutely. Absolutely. So we are here in State college.
Tuesday, I'm sorry, Monday through Saturday, nine to
six, and Sunday's nine to three. All of our other
locations about the same hours. Uh, on the web
tcoflyfishing.com.
Marvin Cash: Uh, well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, when the water drops,
get out there and catch a few tight lines, everybody. Tight
lines. George, take it easy, Mark.