Fishing Report: Holy Cicada Batman!

[wackaloo13]

Left the house in stl around 615 and went to schnucks for some breakfast and to grab lunch. Standing in line, I realized I left my waders at home. Fml. Run home and grab the waders and headed out 44. I managed to get a speeding ticket near the Salem airport. Fml. Got to baptist and the canoe hatch was just starting so I grabbed my 11' nymph stick and headed upstream. I tied on a czech nymph setup with a heavy anchor worm and a caddis pupa and immediately hooked 2 nice rainbows. Worked my way further upstream and saw fish rising to cicadas. I tied on a cicada imitation I came up with the other night at the tying bench and started fishing some fishy looking water. Brought another 9-10 to hand before lunch. After lunch headed down stream. Hooked 3 8" browns on the way down. Switching back to a nymph rig I worked my way back up and got into 2 or 3 pretty big rainbows. Switched to an elk hair caddis, tan and hooked up with a dew more smaller fish. Biggest fish of the day was 18-19. I was hooked on a bigger rainbow but it chucked the cicada mid fight.

Overall a great day of fishing.

[jdmidwest]

Sounds like fun. Cicadas are nil around here this year. I did run across a bunch up around Potosi last weekend. Many were flopping around in the water, but no warmwater fish were hitting them.

[Nortrad]

Tomorrow or Monday might be even better, warmer temps will bring a lot more cicadas out.

[Adam Snodgrass]

I'm heading to Baptist this morning with a nice stash of cicada imitations so this is good news. Sounds like you had a great day. Wish me luck!

Adam

[wackaloo13]

I'm heading to Baptist this morning with a nice stash of cicada imitations so this is good news. Sounds like you had a great day. Wish me luck!

Adam

Good luck!

Adam, your parents didn't by chance teach at Burroughs did they?

[Adam Snodgrass]

Good luck!

Adam, your parents didn't by chance teach at Burroughs did they?

Nope, sorry. Must be a different Snodgrass.