Marvin: Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly,

Marvin: and we're back with another Central PA Fishing Report with George Kost of TCO

Marvin: Fly Shop and State College. George, how are you?

George: I'm amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?

Marvin: Ah, you're just happy because you're on the road, right?

George: I am doing a little traveling today. I'm up here in Muncie, PA.

George: We are getting our new TCO location up and running for opening on April 26th.

George: So we're out here getting the store set up and excited for that to happen in about a week.

Marvin: Very, very cool. And to kind of bring things back to State College,

Marvin: you know, from all the questions I've gotten, it sounds like you still have

Marvin: a pretty significant amount of water, right?

George: Yeah, it is dropping slowly. So levels are dropping slowly on all of our streams. Spring is fishable.

George: It's up and green. It's really pushy on the lower end. So below Belfont,

George: downstream of Belfont, definitely a lot of water, kind of hard to get around, but fishable.

George: Penns is fishable, but it is high and pushing. You're kind of limited as far

George: as where you can go. You've got to kind of stick on the edges there.

George: Little Jay is pretty much still kind of out of the question.

George: It's pretty high. It bumped up a little bit more last night with last night's read.

George: And now Fishing Creek is up and dirty. So everything is high and pushing and

George: kind of tough to get around. But we are seeing some good hatches if you want to go work the edges.

George: Granums are still good on spring. They're picking up on pens.

George: They should be starting on the J.

George: Not a lot of guys have been fishing the J since we have the high water.

George: But there should be granums. There's Hendrickson's going.

George: Olives have been really strong everywhere still. So we're getting into real prime hatch season.

George: But the water just needs to cooperate. We need a couple days of clear weather

George: to let these trees soak everything up and get the levels down to good fishing.

Marvin: Yeah, but I guess, you know, the good news is looking at your weather,

Marvin: you've probably got a relatively clear forecast for the next week to 10 days or so, right?

George: Yeah, we're supposed to get a little bit of rain tomorrow morning or,

George: you know, I don't think it's going to be much at all.

George: They're calling for less than a quarter of an inch, but it looks fairly clear until mid next week.

George: They're calling for more showers. You don't know what's going to happen until,

George: you know, two hours before when the rain's moving in.

George: So hopefully we get a little break in this rain and can really get our season underway.

George: I mean, it's fishable. It's just, you know, limiting as far as how far you can

George: get around in the stream. So just be careful wading out there.

Marvin: Yeah, and I would imagine if you've had that much water, it kind of messed up

Marvin: opening day for the hatchery folks, right?

George: Oh, yeah, they had a hard time. We were really blown out on opening day.

George: I know a couple people were kind of bemoaning it, but I mean,

George: not much we can do. We can't control the weather. At least I can't yet.

Marvin: You should work on that, George. I have faith in you.

George: I'm trying to, man. I'm trying to.

Marvin: Just add that to your repertoire. That would make you like guide of the year, you know?

George: I like it. I like it.

Marvin: You know, just a little hand movement, clouds come over, hatch goes off,

Marvin: client's happy. That would be awesome.

George: Let me get my staff.

Marvin: Yeah, exactly. And so, you know, I know that, you know, you probably have some

Marvin: lingering sales in State College, but I also know you're kind of gearing up

Marvin: with your kind of how-to classes for fishing season. You want to let folks know about those?

George: Sure. We've got some beginners classes still available for May in State College.

George: We've got our NIMS classes.

George: All of our other stores have tons of classes available this coming season.

George: So check out the website for all of those.

George: Again, we're really excited for the new Muncie store here in the Williamsport

George: area to get opened up on the 26th. So make sure you guys come down for the 26th

George: and check out the new store at the Euro Optics building in Muncie.

George: We're stoked for that. And, you know, anything online on our sales page,

George: we've still got plenty of things going on. And yeah, thanks for listening to

George: Marvin and I talk every couple of weeks. We appreciate it.

Marvin: Yeah, it's funny you say that. I think I texted you this morning.

Marvin: You'd asked me, I think the last time we recorded, like, how long have we been

Marvin: doing this? We've been doing this for four years.

George: Yeah.

Marvin: And this episode is the 800th episode.

George: Congratulations. That's awesome, Marv. 800 episodes of the Articulate Fly.

George: I know I've been on at least three of them.

Marvin: And, George, I think the only thing we haven't covered today are state college

Marvin: hours and all that kind of good stuff.

George: Yep, and same as they ever are. Nine to six, Monday through Saturday,

George: nine to three on Sundays.

George: All our other stores are open similar hours. So check us out in the shop or online.

Marvin: Yeah, I like that little talking head lead-in you had there at the beginning.

George: Mmm.

Marvin: Well, listen, folks, if you get out there, be careful waiting and catch a few.

Marvin: Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, George.

George: Take it easy, Mark.