Cicadas

[clark reid]

Took me a while guys, but I got here…  🙂

Thanks for the kind words… and the mention of life’s Gory details… there’s more you don’t know, more accurately, more than you want to know… 😎

Clark

You can judge a man by the size of things which annoy him.

[john yuschak]

Clarks cicada worked great for me last February on the north island

[clark reid]

Cicada’s are an interesting subject and one, obviously, I’m pretty interested in.

In New Zealand we have over 17 different species of cicadas and all hatch in cycles. This means we have cicada’s every year. However the types can vary year to year. Some years it’s predominantly big black ones, others green, some speckled, some almost orange.

Once the trout have keyed in on large terrestrials then it usually will not matter if you have an exact imitation of the predominant species or not… something big and fluffy will get eaten, however on heavily fished water you can sway the odds a bit more in your favor by altering size and color.

Ian almost had it right… :)… It was Ben Hall, a fellow Poronui guide, who said the Clark’s Cicada should have a warning label on the box… I just stole the expression and use it still. It’s not that having eaten it once they’ll never take it again but there is a fair old chance a fish that’s eaten it recently will not hit it and I have seen cases where fish have spooked of it. I think in the simple world of the trout this doesn’t mean the fish has “recognized” the fly… more I believe the fish is probably wary of Cicadas in general for a time… they bite… Other flies will often fool them. Ian is right about it being tied first in Thailand… but we knew the instant it came off the vice it would be a winner… It’s a fly I am incredibly proud of.

Having said that varying from the commercial pattern which is sold here in only two sizes and one color raises the odds considerably. Randall Kaufmann has them tied for his store in Oregon in Brown also for the Green River hatches in Utah. I tie them in all manner of colors as the above example shows and I tied some black and Orange rubber leg jobbies for Morsie last year to use on Australian Bass… unfortunately they didn;t arrive in time for the trip he had planned… I hope he can use them at some other stage.

BIG trout do not like to let the amount of protein an insect like a cicada represents go past and often appealing to what I call “greed factor” is one way of fooling them… as always, there’ll be several other ways and your mileage may vary.

You can judge a man by the size of things which annoy him.

[regan c. kenyon jr.]

Here in the Dirty Jerz, we get cicadas every summer.

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