Cicadas!

Mossyoakglock · May 10, 2011

Anybody have Cicadas yet? We are just starting to get them here in Middle TN. I haven't seen one yet but our dog has had a few snacks already and a buddy of mine was hit the head by one while cutting his grass.

If you didn't know, they make an amazing fishing bait. Rig them like you would a cricket and have fun! I guess it's time to get the cricket container out and start rounding them up.

PiraticaL · May 10, 2011

Ive heard of some people in my area of GA starting to hear and see them but I haven't as of yet. I didnt know that you could use them like crickets though. Good info to have since I've been wanting to go fishing lol. How do you go about catching them exactly? Or is that a dumb question?

Mossyoakglock · May 10, 2011

I usually just find them sitting on a tree branch, or anywhere really, and just pick them up by the wings and throw them in a cricket bucket. I usually rig them with no bobber and a very light splitshot weight to keep them on the surface or you can use a heavier split shot to get them under the surface and a bobber.

If you can't seem to catch any and you still want to fish, try using a Bubble Bug (in the Horse Fly color) or a Hocus Locust. Those seem to work the best for me when the cicadas are out.

Edit: Sorry, it's Bumble Bug, not Bubble Bug.

Mckenzie · May 10, 2011

Those things are loud as hell and annoying...I'm pretty sure they only come out every 17 years.

PiraticaL · May 11, 2011

I usually just find them sitting on a tree branch, or anywhere really, and just pick them up by the wings and throw them in a cricket bucket. I usually rig them with no bobber and a very light splitshot weight to keep them on the surface or you can use a heavier split shot to get them under the surface and a bobber.

If you can't seem to catch any and you still want to fish, try using a Bubble Bug (in the Horse Fly color) or a Hocus Locust. Those seem to work the best for me when the cicadas are out.

I'll have to try one of these out once they get a little more active here. Thanks for the tips.

chev1guy · May 11, 2011

We have these in Florida at the moment and they will eat your paint.

And this is what happens (not my car)

KMGZ400 · May 11, 2011

We have these in Florida at the moment and they will eat your paint.

And this is what happens (not my car)

^^ she needs a bra

Mossyoakglock · May 11, 2011

What are those called? When I worked for a transportation company our trucks would drive down that way and into Texas and come back with the tractors covered in those things. The washbay guys hated having to clean them off.

chev1guy · May 11, 2011

What are those called? When I worked for a transportation company our trucks would drive down that way and into Texas and come back with the tractors covered in those things. The washbay guys hated having to clean them off.

I have always known them as Love Bugs but they are also known as March flies. For about 2 weeks now I have had to wash the front of the truck every night.

[email protected] · May 11, 2011

We had them last year; and they will make your windshield virtually opaque with little tiny white specs. In just one trip at night, and even in the daytime, I hate the little bitches.

tanked_darren · May 11, 2011

Thanks for reminding me why I hate long cross-country trips.

gregrocks89 · May 11, 2011

Never heard of those but they seem to be a pain in the ass, just like most bugs in the summer

GPSilverado · May 13, 2011

Anybody have Cicadas yet? We are just starting to get them here in Middle TN. I haven't seen one yet but our dog has had a few snacks already and a buddy of mine was hit the head by one while cutting his grass.

If you didn't know, they make an amazing fishing bait. Rig them like you would a cricket and have fun! I guess it's time to get the cricket container out and start rounding them up.

We don't have them here yet, but 75 miles to my southeast in Greenwood SC, it is unreal how many of these they have. I have been working there for the past 2 days. I have a video of them, more for the noise. They can't be seen in the video, but you can definitely hear them.

I would post it, but I don't have an account that lets me do that yet (photobucket?)

It is every 13 years, from what they say on the local news.

Prokopchuk_9 · May 13, 2011

Never heard of those but they seem to be a pain in the ass, just like most bugs in the summer

i know eh take a rip thru northern AB or northern ontario any given night during the summer, if its a few hour drive you literally have to stop and clean your lights off cuz the bugs are caked on so bad.

last year spring i drove across the country, when there was the big floods in Saskatchewan remember?? i was in between regina and saskatoon and the water beetles were so friggin BAD. i literally had to slow down to like 60-80kms/h because it felt like i was driving on ice. the road was so slippery from the water beetles walkin across the road. you should have seen my truck after that!!!! friggin bug guts EVERYWHERE. when you stopped the exhaust was literally smoking from bug guts ....it was effin nasty. some where flying some were crawling across the highways. it sounded like hitting a big ass puddle goin down the highway...and felt like ice.

one year back in northern ontario the army worms were so bad it was the same thing...big patches of them walkin across the highway.

bigbeds · May 22, 2011

the picture looks like the 17 year cicada variety...I heard it was time in certain areas.

We don't have any yet in Pennsylvania...we only see the "comes every year, local, summer, dog days" cicada here. Although in 2004 ( I think) we had a 17 year cicada outbreak about 60 miles west of my house, Manheim, Pennsylvania was covered from top to bottom with those red-eyed monsters.