Brood X [First cicada thread of the year?]

Backwoodsman ^ | 4-2-04 | Rev. J.D. Hooker

[Crazieman]

Cicadas are thick in Kansas as well, they're definitely not confined to "east of the Mississipi".

[GreenLanternCorps]

The 17 year Cicadas will be attacking Cincinnati in May. It's been nice knowing you! ;-)

[GreenLanternCorps]

Imagine what is must be like to wait 17 years to have sex? It's worse than Pon Far!

[capt. norm]

I have heard that elephants only mate every three years.

Since they have such excellent memories, maybe that balances things out a bit.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Bass are very plentiful here in Georgia, where the world record largemouth was caught back in the 1920's.(22 pounds I believe.

Us anglers have practised catch and release for twenty odd years. Now, the state is asking people to keep amaller bass out of the bigger reservoirs so the average size of those left will increase.

Right now is the easiest time of year to catch largemouth, as they are either fattening up to spawn or already in the process, spending most of their time in shallow water.

Bream are also very plentiful here, and are my favorite freshwater species to eat.

There's a guy in south Georgia that has developed a hybrid bream that can grow up to five pounds. I can't wait to chase after those with an ultralight and a fly.

[Huck]

Bream's a southern term. Up north you might hear em called sunnies or bluegills.

[Huck]

Thanks for the ping. I read about this in bassmaster. I am wondering what sort of lures I should get. I bet poppers would work nicely. And chuggers. But I need to hit the bait shop and look for something that looks just like these buggers. Tight lines!

[Huck]

Here was go:

At that time I'd simply gather up a large quantity of already dead locusts from where they'd fallen around the tree trunks and, after threading a locust on to a relatively large #1-size hook attached to a tapered leader, I'd flip-cast the bug into a shaded area right up near the bank. If I didn't get a strike within the first few seconds, I'd give my rod a little twitch causing the bug to move only a couple of inches. This nearly always triggered an actual attack by a frenziedly feeding fish. This year, in addition to using these same tactics, I intend trying a few artificials as well. In fact, I've already ordered a few "Arbogast Hucus Locusts" in their black and copper pattern (available from www.lurenet.com if you can't find them locally), as well as several of Bass Pro Shop's "Lazer Eye Locust" lures (from www.bassproshops.com), Rebel's "Crickhopper Poppers" (also available from www.lurenet.com), plus ordering a few cicada flies from T. Hargrove in St. Louis (call 1-314-968-4223 if you'd like to try these as well).

[Scythian]

Breaking ...

I was just coming back from a meeting with a client (Indiana) when it hit, a swarm that is hard to describe. I heard a stange buzzing sound, quite loud actually, looked up and bang, they were all over us. A female co-worker panicked and fell into a meta bycycle rack and was injured, we ran into a nearby office building for about 20 minutes until they had moved on.

While driving back to my office WIBC reported two people in southern Indiana were actually killed by the Cicada, they had crawled into thier esophugus and they sophicated. This is all very frightening. I'm back in the office writing this to you now, our entire company is pressed up to the windows looking at the swarm, nobody is leaving the building, we'll report back soon.

Scthian out ...

[Scythian]

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