Found my first cicada today

[vern]

Just giving a heads up. Even though the water conditions are somewhat challenging, it looks as though the cicada season is starting.
Found a dead one in the yard at the bottom of a fence post in a spider web being eaten by little ants. Found a couple of castings. Black and green ones.

 

[JG63]

We called ‘em “back to school bugs” for our kids 😈

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Has anyone found them fishable outside of major emergences?

 

[vern]

Never tried, actually. Have always kept it within emergences.

One thing I did when I was trying to fish every piece of good trout water in Potter County and nearby - fish a large (size 6-8 hook) black deer hair beetle with two split shot and tuck casting it above the top of the pool and letting the beetle submerge and fishing it in the mid-flow.
I fished it in a well formed stretch just below a forested area where trout normally swim up to during the summer's heat.
It worked.
Never got the chance to do the "research" necessary to validate its strong success on other waters at this time of year, but it worked then!

I gave it a try because real beetles do get drowned and float lower in the water column.
Perhaps large beetles and other large insects do get submerged more frequently and with enough frequency to present an easy meal for larger trout?

 

[ROVERT]

I don't think enough annual cicadas end up in the water for trout to key in on them. You may get the odd eat but I bet you'd do better with a hopper and I know you'd do better with an ant or beetle.

The Green River is the only place I can think of that gets press over annual cicadas.

 

[Bamboozle]

I don't think enough annual cicadas end up in the water for trout to key in on them. You may get the odd eat but I bet you'd do better with a hopper and I know you'd do better with an ant or beetle.

The Green River is the only place I can think of that gets press over annual cicadas.

Same goes for katydids which SOUND like they are more prevalent in my area than annual cicadas.

Other than Ray Bergman's Katydid Wet Fly, not much hubbub about katydid patterns either.

 

[Broodstock]

Trout, not so much - but the bass do eat them and they do fall into the water.

 

[Bamboozle]

Bass eat anything that falls into the water... 😉

 

[tomgamber]

Had few cicadas back and forth this morning. Also had some speedy wing action from a few slightly larger fliers.

 

[CRB]

Prime season for the anual I could hear them over the mower this morning.