S6, Ep 35: George Costa's Easter Treats and Stream Beats in State College

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?

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

Uh, you sound super excited. Did you get a lot of cool stuff in your Easter

basket?

I did. I got some Cadbury eggs

and I got some peep and all sorts of

teeth rotting stuff.

It was delicious. Awesome. What color peeps?

The yellow.

That's the only true color.

Everyone knows that.

You didn't do pink or lavender?

No, no, just the yellow ones. I like the standard yellow

people.

And you strike me as an artisanal jellybean.

Dude, that's too much for me. That's too much

stress.

Well, uh, you know, it may deal.

With those popcorn flavored jelly beans. That's too much for my mind to

handle.

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.

I don't have that kind of time.

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.

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.

Yeah, sounds like streamer fishing. Sunday,

Monday, and then, you know, fingers crossed for dry

fly activity on maybe Wednesday, Thursday, next week.

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.

God. Did.

Anything, uh, cool going on in the shop you want to share with

folks?

Um, uh, not particularly.

We're loaded up.

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.

Yeah. And I know you were, uh, one of the few retailers actually got

the hook up on the new Grundins too, right?

Yep.

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.

Yeah. And I imagine to you, I think last time we spoke you

were signing people up for learning to fly fish classes, right?

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.

We call that being fly curious.

Oh, I like that very much.

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.

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.

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.