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Uploaded on August 06, 2011

Anyone ever see a real Cicada? I can remember as a kid in Northern Ohio seeing the clear husks stuck on the trunks of trees, and the split down the back where they had hatched out. I remember hearing their wings buzzing up in the trees. I think that was the males attracting females for mating. I can't remember actually seeing one though. On the Green River, below Flaming Gorge Reservoir, the Cicada hatch is a happening. I have been tying some Cicada patterns for a fishing buddy that will be floating the Green below the Dam next week.

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from backcast wrote 41 weeks 6 days ago

Only once or twice have I seen a live cicada. Like you, I hear them buzzing in the trees on hot days, and see their empty shucks on trees. They sound like they'd be a hoot to fish.

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from badsmerf wrote 40 weeks 6 days ago

Do they fall in the water? I've seen plenty of them. They like wood piles and sheds for some reason.

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from Sayfu wrote 40 weeks 6 days ago

On the Green River in Utah they end up in the water. My friend just got back, and he caught a good number of good sized rainbows and browns on a Cicada pattern...black body, black foam, rubber legged fly. The Green below the Flaming Gorge Dam is a terrestrial bug water mainly..PMD's and BWO's bug not many other mayflies..lots of yellow Sally stoneflies around. Ant Patterns and small hoppers are popular patterns.

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from larry46 wrote 40 weeks 5 days ago

I would like to see just how they are tied.

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from Sayfu wrote 40 weeks 5 days ago

Larry..This is a good one. The technique of folding over the foam after tying in the wing, holds the wing spread out, and creates an easy place to tie in the rubber legs. The cicada has a fatter, short body, and a good sized wing. The pattern my friend did well on was tied on a size #10 hook.

http://www.flyflinger.com/cicada.php

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from backcast wrote 40 weeks 4 days ago

Sayfu, thanks for the above link. Good stuff.

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from backcast wrote 41 weeks 6 days ago

Only once or twice have I seen a live cicada. Like you, I hear them buzzing in the trees on hot days, and see their empty shucks on trees. They sound like they'd be a hoot to fish.

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from badsmerf wrote 40 weeks 6 days ago

Do they fall in the water? I've seen plenty of them. They like wood piles and sheds for some reason.

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from Sayfu wrote 40 weeks 6 days ago

On the Green River in Utah they end up in the water. My friend just got back, and he caught a good number of good sized rainbows and browns on a Cicada pattern...black body, black foam, rubber legged fly. The Green below the Flaming Gorge Dam is a terrestrial bug water mainly..PMD's and BWO's bug not many other mayflies..lots of yellow Sally stoneflies around. Ant Patterns and small hoppers are popular patterns.

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from larry46 wrote 40 weeks 5 days ago

I would like to see just how they are tied.

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from Sayfu wrote 40 weeks 5 days ago

Larry..This is a good one. The technique of folding over the foam after tying in the wing, holds the wing spread out, and creates an easy place to tie in the rubber legs. The cicada has a fatter, short body, and a good sized wing. The pattern my friend did well on was tied on a size #10 hook.

http://www.flyflinger.com/cicada.php

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from backcast wrote 40 weeks 4 days ago

Sayfu, thanks for the above link. Good stuff.

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