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  Nothing yet in Vernon County but we were in Hickory County, west side and they were everywhere. got a handful and pitched them into a friend's pond that has bluegill and hybrid bluegill. Looked like piranha gobbling them up. 

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9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I bet there's a Karen just waiting to pounce on the first one to crawl out of the ground!  

"Oh NO YOU DON'T, Mister...... You've been SERVED"!!!!! 🙇

No, it’s the retired guy with his pants pulled up under his breasteses exposing his fupa complaining that the lawn guys don’t cut the grass right😂.    Seriously.   The 2 guys behind me don’t let them cut the common ground between us because it’s “not done right”.   Funniest stuff ever watching them bolt out the door when a new crew doesn’t know the “rules”.  

But hey.   No cicadas!!

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11 hours ago, BilletHead said:

got a handful and pitched them into a friend's pond that has bluegill and hybrid bluegill. Looked like piranha gobbling them up

When we were in Columbia during the last big emergence, we filled a syrofoam bucket with them and fished for bluegill. Put on a cicada, cast, set hook, reel in and release. By the time that you let the fish go another cicada would "volunteer" by climbing to the rim.

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Way back possibly before I could legally drive we had a big hatch.  Wade fishing the creek was sure fun for a while, like you said pit one on cast pause set the hook.  Those big green sunfish (black perch) were so full.of cicadas you could see parts sticking out of their mouth.

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Was by the farm today and they were buzzing everywhere.  I could hear them over the mower and muffs on my ears.  Could not tell if mower was making noise or bugs.

I mowed by one bush and one lit up at my head, I started looking for a rattle snake.  Not uncommon to see one on the farm.

Really spotty.  Camped on Spring River this weekend, you could hear them, but none in camp.  Driving along a ridge today between Couch and  11Pt river,  bugs flying all over.  Marble Hill seems to be a hotspot too.

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They are spotty around here.    You can travel miles of shoreline and not see any, then all of a sudden there will be a 30 yard stretch that every tree/bush will be covered in them.   

The ducks and geese seem to be the first to locate them.   The fish don't seem to care at all. 🤷‍♂️

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