From Sulphurs to Drakes: George Costa's Essential Fishing Report for Central PA

S8E35 - From Sulphurs to Drakes: George Costa's Essential Fishing Report for Central PA

Published: May 22, 2026

Duration: 4:54

Episode Overview

This Central PA Fishing Report on The Articulate Fly fly fishing podcast finds host Marvin Cash checking in with George Costa, manager at TCO Fly Shop in State College, Pennsylvania, for a late-spring conditions update across Central PA's limestone streams. Recorded in late May ahead of Memorial Day weekend, the report captures one of the most productive dry fly windows of the year: sulphurs, March browns and Drakes are all in play simultaneously, and Costa is emphatic that the Drake hatch on Penns Creek is just now getting started en masse. Stream temperatures are sitting...