Anybody Ever Fished A Cicada Fly?

[FarmerDave]

OK, that wasn't the fish.

Caught a huge grass carp which I promptly released. Measured approx 42 inches.

 

[DaveS]

FD if it was a grass carp, how come it ate a cicada?

 

[FarmerDave]

DaveS wrote:
FD if it was a grass carp, how come it ate a cicada?

Because some ******** put a herbicide in that private lake that killed all the weeds so he didn't have to touch those icky things when he water-skied. Sore subject, and the lake never fully recovered. Grass carp will eat other things if hungry enough.

Either that or he might have thought it was a mulberry. I was wet wading and casting under trees.

 

[englishprof]

After reading and hearing so much about these things, hope to get a chance to fish if and when they're on the water. Never have.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17676853-17-years-in-the-making-this-springs-cicada-invasion-generates-early-buzz?lite

 

[troutbert]

englishprof wrote:
After reading and hearing so much about these things, hope to get a chance to fish if and when they're on the water. Never have.

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/09/17676853-17-years-in-the-making-this-springs-cicada-invasion-generates-early-buzz?lite

I'm amazed that some have emerged already in PA. It seems very early.

 

[englishprof]

Didn't realize some had appeared in Pennsylvania. Have you actually seen them?

 

[troutbert]

englishprof wrote:
Didn't realize some had appeared in Pennsylvania. Have you actually seen them?

I got that from the website that you linked. It indicates recent spotting of emerged cicadas, showing dates of April 7, April 8.

Probably just a few early pioneers, but I'm still amazed that they saw any this early.

When they emerged here in Centre County in 2008, I think the first ones were in mid-May.

 

[Gorosaurus]

Heard some REAL buzzers around Manada stream today. Just one, maybe two. But they were loud and unique!