we're going to have a cicada hatch in a few months...

anybody good at tying want to tie a half dozen cicada patterns for me?

Appreciate an assist!

Will trade cicada flies for maple syrup, and or morels.

I'm in for a maple syrup trade!

Do not know about matching a cicada, but check out the troutspot.com. I have been happy with their flies.

I did some business wth a guy on Facebook.....Fred’s Flies....he tied me up a Dozen olive woolly buggers 21.00 with shipping ...they were Excellent !! Fast turn around too. Send him a pic of what you want....or Iam sure he has tied it before.

I think I have a business card in my tackle box.....let me know if I have to go digging for it .

just catch one and superglue it to a hook. live bait it better. lol

appreciate the replies.

krispcritter, I kinda like your idea (you get the "buzz" that way, too!), but I doubt the fish wardens in the fly fishing only sections would approve.

I should think any grass hopper or hair bug would be close enough. Fish ain't even as smart as 'possums.

You’ve never fished for pressured fish in clear water then!!

Probably not, I mostly just fish spring branches in the Ozarks.

and I suck at fly fishing, so I need all the help I can get!

If the fish wardens question you, just tell them you're "fly fishing". Those flies have a soft bite, would be easy to have one on and not know it.

Not much pressure on this spring branch. I wasn't there that day but it's one of my usual places to practice.

Were they fishing for coon bait....I mean trout?

https://youtu.be/oc8ahi7UWI4

Lots of work to tying this one.

yeah that's Roaring River State Park. one of Mo. four trout parks, but when I lived back east opening day of trout looked about the same. Pressure is a myth unless it is total C&R the fish that gets caught has no memory of it and doesn't pass any fear on to the off spring it never has.

I have a story from the only time I went fly fishing. Long story very short. We found a deep hole in a stream in Colorado full of trout . Hole about the size of 2 pickups. Little fish at the top deeper u got bigger the fish. Anyway couldn't get them to look at a fly so we put some salmon eggs on a hook. Buddy dropped his line in the water and 20 fish headed for it. He caught one. After that not a single trout would even look at a salmon egg.

In my experience, if you're not waiting for fish to come in from the lake, and instead it's spring time and you're just waiting for opening day.... watch what the old men do.... and skip it. The browns at least will be so spooked you'll have wasted your morning. And there will be enough chew spit per square inch to raise the water level. Wait 3 days and you'll have the place back to yourself again. But one year I did see people catch a lot on opening day.