Transcript: Central PA Fishing Report with TCO Fly Shop State College
S5, Ep 116: Central Pennsylvania Fishing Report with TCO Fly Shop
2023
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Transcript
Marvin:
[0:04] Hey folks, it's Marvin Cash, the host of the Articulate Fly, and we're back with another Central Pennsylvania Fishing Report with George Kossut of TCO Fly Shop in State College. How are you, George?
George:
[0:14] I'm amazing as always, Marvin. How are you?
Marvin:
[0:16] I'm living the dream. Sounds like you've got the merchandise cornucopia going on in the shop.
George:
[0:20] We do. We do. We've got lots of our fall gear is here.
All of our waders, all of our taro for fall and winter is all in store.
So it's making for fun days, fun days of merchandising and stocking.
Marvin:
[0:34] Gotcha. Do you have plenty of pumpkin spice latte mix in the shop?
George:
[0:37] I know. I don't have any pumpkin spice latte. Why would you ask me that?
Marvin:
[0:44] So, you know, I think finally, I know it's true in the Southeast, the heat's broken and we're starting to kind of really feel like it actually may be fall, but at least down here it's kind of dry. Where are you seeing up in your neck of the woods?
George:
[0:56] It's pretty good up in our neck of the woods. the leaves on the trees are starting to get a little yellow up here and temperatures have been cool for the past week and they look cool for the next week.
Really seasonal fall temperatures. We've got, um, you know, cool forties fifties at night and hasn't got above about 75, 76 degrees here all week.
And it's looking like that for the rest of the week as well.
So nice cool fall temperatures, maybe a little bit of rain this weekend.
Um, stream levels are all seasonally average.
So on the low side, but that's what we expect this time of year.
Um, Penn's Creek has still been really high. Um, not really high, but high seasonally it's been fishing. Great.
Um, so temperatures and water levels look good.
Um, the fishing department, everything has been fishing really well.
Um, so we're seeing, you know, best action has been like early and late in the day, those bright blue birds, sunny days.
Um, it's been a little slow midday, but guys are getting plenty of fish on them.
Um, streamers and low light conditions, dry fly action has been a little limited to more of those terrestrial patterns.
Some caddis here and there, there's been a handful of olives around and starting to hear of some October caddis being spotted, so those guys are starting to come off as well as pretty spotty, but isos have been around on some of the bigger streams as well.
So good full dry fly action for those looking for it and consistent action otherwise.
Marvin:
[2:20] There you go. and what's your prediction for when you're going to shovel your first snow.
George:
[2:25] Oh, don't ask me, Dan. I don't know. So will snow? Probably not till November.
If we get any, I feel like it's going to be a light snow year, but it probably won't be till the end of November, December. Fingers crossed.
Marvin:
[2:36] Yeah, I'm marking this because I'm going to play this back to you in January.
George:
[2:40] You will, too. You'll rub it in when I'm wrong. I will.
Marvin:
[2:42] And then you'll tell me that you're going on a trip to the Caribbean to go fish for bonefish, so it'll all work out.
George:
[2:47] That is true. That is true.
Marvin:
[2:48] Yeah. And so, you know, just following up, we had a question and you kind of covered the hatch part of the question. The question was, you know, what fall hatches do you expect to see? But then the next part of the question is, favorite patterns to cover those hatches.
George:
[3:03] So, favorite fall actual hatches are definitely ISOs and October Caddis.
I really like an ISO spinner a lot, like a mahogany or gray colored spinner works really well for them.
So that's a favorite fall hatch. they're usually like full-time most of those bugs are gonna be 10s and 12s leading towards the smaller size though a nice little spinner is always a great pattern to use and as far as the October Caddis goes you can be pretty basic with that I think that's a big like orange rusty brown kind of size 10 Elk hair cadets works really well for them I actually had a customer in here yesterday who said he does really good on like smaller orange stimulators as well that's also a great way to imitate those bigger October Caddis if you get a good hat to them.
Fish really, you know, they'll key in on them and it's a fun hat to actually fish because they're so big and, you know, puffy. It's an easy way to rig up a dry dropper and just, you know, have fun with that.
Marvin:
[3:58] And do you like to swing soft hackles for those guys, too?
George:
[4:02] Yeah, you can definitely do that. I'm not much of a swinging soft hackle kind of guy, but some people that do it, you know, if you get a good hat, you can definitely have success on that.
Marvin:
[4:11] Got it. And, you know, folks, we love questions at the Articulate Fly.
You can email them to us. you can DM us on social media, whatever's easiest for you.
And if we use your question, I will send you some articulate fly swag.
And we are in a drawing for some cool stuff from the shop at the end of the season. And George, before I let you go, you want to let folks know about, you know, fall sales, classes, all that kind of good stuff, shop hours, right? For sure.
George:
[4:34] So we're here nine to six Monday through Saturday, nine to three on Sundays.
We do have some good sales on the website. Check those out. We have a ton of educational classes going on right now. check out our website under the education tab.
Really good trips coming up as well. So just check out TCOflyfishing.com.
Tons of things to explore there and look.
Marvin:
[4:55] Well, there you go. Well, listen, folks, fall is one of my favorite times to be out on the water. Yo it to yourself to get out there and catch a few.
Tight lines, everybody. Tight lines, George.
George:
[5:03] All right, take it easy, brother.