Fishing Cicadas

[Micheal Kyle]

Got down to Taney yesterday for the first time in a long time, My buddy Matt and I were in need of a major fishing fix. We have been glueing, cutting and tying foam flies for about month now while We work work work you know what they say "no mon no fun". We finally got to put my flies to use that we tied and what a day it was.

We put the boat in about 6 am up by the dam and floated to cooper creek. I fished a streamer for a few minutes with no avail except for one fish on a pink/purple clouser. We then started to fish a cicada and started picking fish up almost immeaditly. The fly would hit the water twitch it 2-3 times no fish cast again. Caught sevral nice fat 16"-18" inch fish on the cicada and lot of small ones. When we got to cooper creek I made a phone call to make sure I could stay and fish the boss lady said I could so we floated it again.

When we put back in there were cicadas all over the water you could watch the cicada float down and get eaten. The fish on the second float were hanging out off the bank about 20 feet. We were just letting the big foam flies just drift no movement this go around and they just smashed them. Lots of nice fish the second float of the day. I did catch one nice 23 inch bow, on the cicada. You had better put a foam fly or two in your box .I would say all together we had right at 50 fish to the boat on the cicada, but whos counting

Here are some pics

Good luck and have fun see you next weekend:)

Michael

[Don]

Nice fish Michael. Glad to see you guys got on them. Good report.

[Thom]

Got down to Taney yesterday for the first time in a long time, My buddy Matt and I were in need of a major fishing fix. We have been glueing, cutting and tying foam flies for about month now while We work work work you know what they say "no mon no fun". We finally got to put my flies to use that we tied and what a day it was.

We put the boat in about 6 am up by the dam and floated to cooper creek. I fished a streamer for a few minutes with no avail except for one fish on a pink/purple clouser. We then started to fish a cicada and started picking fish up almost immeaditly. The fly would hit the water twitch it 2-3 times no fish cast again. Caught sevral nice fat 16"-18" inch fish on the cicada and lot of small ones. When we got to cooper creek I made a phone call to make sure I could stay and fish the boss lady said I could so we floated it again.

When we put back in there were cicadas all over the water you could watch the cicada float down and get eaten. The fish on the second float were hanging out off the bank about 20 feet. We were just letting the big foam flies just drift no movement this go around and they just smashed them. Lots of nice fish the second float of the day. I did catch one nice 23 inch bow, on the cicada. You had better put a foam fly or two in your box .I would say all together we had right at 50 fish to the boat on the cicada, but whos counting

Here are some pics

Good luck and have fun see you next weekend:)

Michael

what material is that for the wings. Bucktail?

[Nortrad]

Very nice 'bow Michael. What's the wing material on top? Also, your gold/orange foam underneath is the perfect color. Still looking for that color.

[Micheal Kyle]

Very nice 'bow Michael. What's the wing material on top? Also, your gold/orange foam underneath is the perfect color. Still looking for that color.

It is deer body hair and I get the foam at walmart

[Nortrad]

Thanks, the color underbody is right-on.