Cicadas!

[Flysmallie]

It's a pretty simple pattern. The biggest thing is going to be the balsa body. Thomas is big into balsa and carves all the bodies himself.

[Trout Commander]

He is talented for sure. I bet a simpleton such as myself could use some foam instead and still catch a couple.

[Flysmallie]

I bet a simpleton such as myself could use some foam instead and still catch a couple.

I doubt it.

Seriously foam would be the best option, for me anyway. I like the balsa stuff, but there is to much work involved when you can quickly do the same thing with foam.

[Trout Commander]

We should meet up on a local stream sometime and wet a line.

[Flysmallie]

Well alrighty but you are buying the beer.

[Trout Commander]

Done. I'll bring the beer and you pick the place. With the exception of taking my boy to lake Springfield and drowning bait for catfish I have not fished anywhere within 30 minutes of Springfield. Shoot me a pm sometime.

[Bill B.]

The biggest rainbow I ever caught (3-4 pounds) on the Niangua River hit a live cicada that I'd impaled on a small gold hook. It was late in May 1973, I think, and there was an incredible hatch in the river valley. Cicadas were flying back and forth across the river constantly, and the noise was out of this world. You could catch rainbows and smallmouths all day long off by drifting cicadas on the surface. I'd love to relive that.

[flytyer57]

Done. I'll bring the beer and you pick the place. With the exception of taking my boy to lake Springfield and drowning bait for catfish I have not fished anywhere within 30 minutes of Springfield. Shoot me a pm sometime.

Why not go to Shoal Creek?

[Trout Commander]

I don't have a boat and am looking for something more local.

However I cannot wait to go back to Shoal Creek.

[Flysmallie]

Why not go to Shoal Creek?

Well it's not because we are scared.