Cicadas

[gim]

A once-in-17-year Cicada hatch is about to emerge across portions of the Midwest, Ohio River Valley, and Tennessee River Valley, if they already haven’t. We’re talking a hatch in the trillions. We don’t get many up here in the north but the noise they make is easy to recognize. Are you ready for Cicada Brood X?

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-brood-x-17-years-2021/

[cdlittle]

I'm hoping this means lots of bass on cicada pattern flies! Got a 5wt glass fly rod I built just for this.

[soflabasser]

Over 25 years ago I was fortunate to see hundreds if not thousands of giant cicadas all around me. It was an awesome experience. 

[jbsoonerfan]

I love sitting outside around a fire and listening to them. 

[Bluebasser86]

I remember the last one here when I was a teenager. The topwater bite that summer was unreal. 

[TnRiver46]

No hatch here yet 

[cdlittle]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

No hatch here yet 

 

I'm outside of Chicago and I've seen two cicadas so far

 

[bulldog1935]

I remember girls getting spooked and wanting to cuddle up when you walked through the neighborhood at night.  

 

We get cicada years, too, but I remember a rhinoceros butterfly plague, when bass with distended bellies would impale themselves on any red popper.  

The hard part was keeping your windshield clean enough to get to the river.  

[Boomstick]

On 5/4/2021 at 8:57 PM, gimruis said:

Are you ready for Cicada Brood X?

If I didn't know any better, I would think that is a horror movie.

 

 

[HaydenS]

On 5/5/2021 at 4:51 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

I remember the last one here when I was a teenager. The topwater bite that summer was unreal. 

This has me excited!

[Tennessee Boy]

[Smells like fish]

It gets busy about July or august the best I recall. Our big hatch here will be in 2025. 

[TnRiver46]

My driveway was covered in dead ones yesterday 

[long island basser]

Haven’t seen or even heard them yet.

[Bird]

Here in the mountains, we've not seen many cicadas, just sporadic.

The few that I do see usually has a giant Asian hornet mauling it to death......something to see.