AndyP
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My memory isn'twhat it used to be but wasn't this summer supposed to be some kind of double whammy cicada brood hatch event ? If so..... did it ever happen ??
It hasn't in my neck of the woods. It's a case of "the boy who cried wolf". lolMy memory isn'twhat it used to be but wasn't this summer supposed to be some kind of double whammy cicada brood hatch event ? If so..... did it ever happen ??
Next year is the emergence of brood XIV. This is the one that will create phenomenal fishing in Central PA.My memory isn'twhat it used to be but wasn't this summer supposed to be some kind of double whammy cicada brood hatch event ? If so..... did it ever happen ??
Next year is the emergence of brood XIV. This is the one that will create phenomenal fishing in Central PA.
Even a few years ago when they were supposed to emerge in central PA and they actually did emerge and were everywhere, the fish didn't care and the fishing was lousy.The cicadas did emerge, where they were predicted to emerge.
It’s gonna be like Bells Beach and the 50 year storm. And I will be there.
Just waiting for my set to come in
I had the same kind of experience a bit north of Harrisburg. When you found the cicadas, many times the fish were willing to take them. Actually caught my first tiger trout on a cicada pattern. And to add, the smallmouth bass were also willing participants on a local ww creek.When they emergence hit the greater Harrisburg area in 2021, you had to look for places that had a heavy prevalence of the bugs. Middletown reservoir was absolutely overrun with them. Much like Swattie described, a bug on the water was attacked, mainly by bluegills, who could not swallow anything. Every cast led to my fly being pulled under, but only a few hook ups. Every time a largemouth got to the fly first, I hooked it. It was lights out dryfly fishing for as long as I cared to cast.
I had maybe my best ever dry fly fishing day on the Yellow Breeches in an area inundated with them. Any fish spot yielded a strike. Since I had intended to tie them up to carp fish, a too large hook made for fewer hookups. Any fish that found the hookpoint came to the net, including my first ever wild 20" brown.
Early in the emergence I fished Muddy creek in York county and could hear them thundering away from the next ridge over. But no takers and no bugs where I was fishing.
In short, I'd say, go find the bugs near fishable water, and you'll have a blast.
Yep, same with the Green Drake hatch.Yeah, nevermind, it's a waste of time. Stay home. Just forget about it.
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