Cicadas

[middleTNsmallies]

Is anyone in the middle part of the state having luck fishing with cicadas or cicada mimicking lures?

[LostHog]

13 years ago I wore the Stones River out with Cicadas. Today no luck with cicada like lures and I did not try live ones. I hope to make a trip with live bait soon. The Tennessean wrote a pretty good article on them last week.

[blake]

13 years ago, I didn't do well on artificial cicadas once the hatch peaked and just past the peak. Unfortunately I didn't try on the upswing. I also found live livebait worked okay, but as soon as the cicada quit beating their wings on the water, no hits. So fresh is best. I ended up using small rubber bands to attach to hook, might try glue this time. Putting the hook through them didn't work very well.

[JustFishin]

This might sound strange from a smallie lover but if you have carp in your waters there's alot of fun to be had during cicada season. Carp love those darn things. If I'm using a fly rod I take a medium size popper and slowly pull it along the surface of the water and when a carp starts following the retrieve I wait until it sticks it's mouth above water to eat the lure and just stop the retrieve. You will hook up everytime. Believe me a 5 to 15 pound carp on a fly rod can be a hoot. I do the same thing with an ulta-lite spinning rod but generally use the smallest torpedo lure available.

So far the cicadas haven't shown up in these parts yet but when they do I'll take a few minutes out of my smallie chasing to get in on some carp action. You won't be sorry if you give this a try.

[cmayes]

This might sound strange from a smallie lover but if you have carp in your waters there's alot of fun to be had during cicada season. Carp love those darn things. If I'm using a fly rod I take a medium size popper and slowly pull it along the surface of the water and when a carp starts following the retrieve I wait until it sticks it's mouth above water to eat the lure and just stop the retrieve. You will hook up everytime. Believe me a 5 to 15 pound carp on a fly rod can be a hoot. I do the same thing with an ulta-lite spinning rod but generally use the smallest torpedo lure available.

So far the cicadas haven't shown up in these parts yet but when they do I'll take a few minutes out of my smallie chasing to get in on some carp action. You won't be sorry if you give this a try.

He is right, but, I used a UL spinning rod and a crickhopper during the last big Cicada hatch. Carp were wearing me out on the Holston.

[smiley]

The cicadas are very heavy on our local flow, and it was neat watching the bass come up and take them right off the top. I didn't have anything like a cicada to throw so I threw a wolka clacking buzzbait and ended up catching 2 spots and 2 bream. Jason used a buzzbait that didn't clank and he only caught 1 bream on it. It was neat because the buzzbait I was using sounded a lot like them on the water. It was cool. I also caught several with cicadas in their belly. And the roar of these bugs are like no other. Its been a really neat experience.

[middleTNsmallies]

Cool, I went out on my local flow and waded a little over a mile....no smallies, but several large rock bass. I didn't have anything like a cicada to fish with but i was having success swimming a grub weightless on the topwater. I figured they were looking up for cicadas (superstitious fishermans logic)... It seemed to work.

My little brother bought a few well crafted cicada flies at Cumberland Transit (i think) and was tearing up the bream at a pond, then he hooked a 15-20 lb carp on his #6 fly rod. He fought it for over 10 minutes before it straightened the hook a few feet from the bank.

[Double Haul]

I had good luck during the cicada hatch by taking a perch pattern(the one with the orange on the sides) tiny torpedo and coloring the white belly black with a sharpie. The shoalies and gar were tearing it up.

[deadeye]

I love my Citica!