Cicadas--the 'filet mignon' for fish?

[BiggerThomas]

Technically this article is about Pennsylvania, but the cicadas are now in NJ, so....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.goerie ... 7113309002

[martalus]

They are supposed to be here in DC, but the unseasonably cool weather seems to have stalled their emergence-I haven't heard any yet-apparently last time they came out here you couldnt miss them, they were so loud.

[Rusty Spinner]

The biggest hoax in the world put on us by fly fishing magazines is that the cicada hatch will be important. Every 7 o 10 years, there is supposed to be a super emergence as there is this year, so fly mags run stories of huge trout caught on foam cicadas. And they add the obligatory tying instructions for them. All lies!

But the one fly we should all start tying and fishing (later this summer) is the spotted lantern fly. They are here to stay, hatch in increasing numbers every year, and trout do look for them floundering on the water as they fall off streamside vegetation.

[Jaybird]

Problem with the cicadas is guys get hyped up , tie them up huge and when and IF , I SAID IF , they get a trout to eat them ,the hook up rate is low cause the trout wasn't big enough to take in a big ole hard foam fly . That said show me a bass pond or a carp pond with cicadas that's the targets I want .
The Lantern Flies

[BiggerThomas]

I think the Chernobyl Ant will suffice...

[Jaybird]

If u want trout that eat cicadas I think central PA is where you need to go

[robtf]

The biggest hoax in the world put on us by fly fishing magazines is that the cicada hatch will be important. Every 7 o 10 years, there is supposed to be a super emergence as there is this year, so fly mags run stories of huge trout caught on foam cicadas. And they add the obligatory tying instructions for them. All lies!

But the one fly we should all start tying and fishing (later this summer) is the spotted lantern fly. They are here to stay, hatch in increasing numbers every year, and trout do look for them floundering on the water as they fall off streamside vegetation.

Neighbor spotted the first SLF down here in Smithville this week.

[BiggerThomas]

The biggest hoax in the world put on us by fly fishing magazines is that the cicada hatch will be important. Every 7 o 10 years, there is supposed to be a super emergence as there is this year, so fly mags run stories of huge trout caught on foam cicadas. And they add the obligatory tying instructions for them. All lies!

But the one fly we should all start tying and fishing (later this summer) is the spotted lantern fly. They are here to stay, hatch in increasing numbers every year, and trout do look for them floundering on the water as they fall off streamside vegetation.

Neighbor spotted the first SLF down here in Smithville this week.

They're definitely around. I saw them in Chester back in late April. Beautiful specimens, actually.

[martalus]

With the hot weather this past weekend, they are all over the place in DC now. There are even articles about humans cooking them-apparently you just rip of the legs/wings and fry them up and they taste like pop corn or fried shrimp...

[Rusty Spinner]

A buddy that lives in Jackson sent pix this morning of hordes of them in that part of NJ. Still not seeing any up here just yet.