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CICADAS

I have heard that these things are going to hit certain areas this year from another forum, anybody have any cool fishing stories to tell concerning these huge insects. From what Ive heard from others, this hatch is supposed to be unreal!

I fished it several years ago on the Yough. It was amazing. The first time I was not prepared at all, but enjoyed watching the fish slam every one that hit the water. I didn't have any cicada patterns on me, but I did have a few bass poppers that fooled a few browns, rainbows and smallmouth bass. I wnet back 3 more times in the following 2 weeks with some crapy deer hair cicada patterns and had a blast.

Do you think this hatch will occur farther North, such as in the Adirondacks?

I just watched a video in a zoology class about the 17 year cycle of the cicada and it seemed really amazing. I'd love to see a bunch of those monsters fall into the water and be swallowed by a hungry brown.

Slate drake,
what you say gives me hope that it will be as awesome as people say it is, I cant even imagine what it will be like casting huge floating things and actually catching fish, it sounds like it will be all to easy, I cant wait to see this!

would be cool if anybody had a video clip of trout eating the cicadas, I saw on the discovery channel a video clip of a salmonfly hatch out west and the video footage showed in detail the trout actively rising to the huge bugs and it was one of the coolest things Ive seen on video. I can imagine that if the cicadas live up to the hype it would exhibit a similar situation as the salmonfly phenomenon out west.

as i side note, i fished the cicadas last time they were in, and did best when I let the fly "plop" fairly heavy on the water. When you see the naturals fall in it looks more like a stone falling in than a bug. any one else use the same technique.

i have no idea if it will make it that far north , i would ask your local fish & game commission.
jeff

maybe wild fish are less picky or shy than stockies: in 2004 i watched as a cicada crash landed and buzzed his way across an entire pool in my favorite small stream. two small trout followed it very closely every inch of the way, but never got up the courage to bite it. they didn't look very big. after it flew away, they went back to their lies, and eventually fell for my adams.

I let the fly "plop" fairly heavy on the water. When you see the naturals fall in it looks more like a stone falling in than a bug. any one else use the same technique.

Back then, that was my technique with just about all flies. Luckily I've learned to cast much better. ;-)

Those sound like a ton of fun to fish, every year out here we get to fish the salmonfly hatch. And they are #0-4 dry flies that are a ton of fun to fish. Its hard to find the actual hatch. I have tried to fish it 3 of the last 6 years on the madison, and it can be hard to find. I have only found the main hatch once. And boy it was on. Fishing drys that large was fun.

I remember cicada's from when i lived back east as a kid. We got them one year i lived there.
If i lived there now i would be fishing every body of water in a 100 mile radius(i take 100 mile fishing trips 15 times a year). For every species of fish.