Don’t throw out your cicada fly just yet, there is another 17 year hatch in 2029 and another in 2030.
Chasing the Cicadas
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nymphingmaniac
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Normally, I'd agree, but these "soldiers" have earned their retirement. And these are the better looking of the left overs. I already re-purposed the hooks on the ones that were really chewed up
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I see brood 2 had a decently heavy eastern PA presence in 2013. At least I won’t have to be behind the wheel quite as much to chase those!
wgmiller
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I remember that emergence. They were definitely on the Lehigh, so I'd highly recommend everyone get in a drift boat and flood the river with anglers. SBecker would appreciate that! 😀 In all seriousness, they were definitely up that way. I found this wild brown on Buckwha Creek in Monroe County when I was out with SBecker. There is plenty of trout water up in that area.
The other place I found them during that emergence was in the Clarks Valley. Clarks was fishing well at the time and cicadas offered up a rare treat for those fish. With HWA wreaking havoc on the riparian buffer and clogging the stream with deadfall, I'm not sure how well Clarks is fishing these days.
The Brood II map from UConn really gives a good graphic representation where they'll be found in 2030. Knowing where they are and where they aren't is half the battle. There is some VERY fishable water on that map!
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hooker-of-men
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Mikey2006
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I was on the little J today, didn’t hear or see any in the air but I saw several dead ones on the bank. Not much surface activity so I never even tried to fish on top (I should have at least attempted it) but the subsurface action was so good I never switched. Got 9, five of them over a foot long. You could tell they had been eating well recently with how chunky some of them were
