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The fishing, scenery and generally everything about Ohio is lousy; y’all should head somewhere else next time. 😉
Absolutely.
Holy cow Dave. You have more LL’s than I have rods.
Back in the early 90s when “fast action” was all the rage…
I didnt know the fly fishing world had moved out of this stage…
Can’t wait until it does.
Amen brother.
I just inventoried the closet.
279-LL (2 of em) (sulpher spinner fall rod)
463-LL (truck beater)
470-LL (great mountani stream rod)
4711-LL (fantastic frying pan rod)
486-LLI won’t enter the wood debate, but most of you know where I stand.
It is my material of choice.If you are a handy guy, you can build your own.
I am building almost what you are looking for, as a matter of fact.
As a matter of fact, I just came in the house from putting two hulls together.This is an 11-1/2″ skiff type boat made for exactly what you describe, except for a two person capacity. – flat water, slow moving rivers and stillwater.
Oh my lord do you bring back memories with this post.
2008 Brood XIV in Central PA. I spent almost every other day and every weekend in June chasing this, because as KBilchjer says, THE MOST EPIC DRY FLY FISHING EVER.
I counted fish one day. 70. It was ridiculous. We fished wild trout water. 24 inch+ wild browns rising, well, crashing like idiots in broad daylight for these bugs. The sunnier, hotter and brighter the days, the more active the cicada the better.
These are the prolific Magicacia-whatever cicadas, not the dog day ones.
You need no fancy schmanzy pattern for this. Here is a picture of what I used. The hooks are 2x strong streamer hooks, #8. Fish this fly on 1X. The stupid $3 store bought cicadas with eyes were a bad joke. I found several in trees, but they looked to hook the fisherman, not the fish.
No disrespect to the Clark cicada, I’m sure it works. But the deer hair will frustrate you… The fish are not picky, even on the pickiest of PA’s trout water, and with so many hookups, the spun deer hair cicada will get destroyed. Stick with foam, no fancy unneeded stuff and tie a ton of them.The fish seriously get stupid for this event and so should you! I did.
Don’t look for fish rising to these like you would dry flies. These are opportunistic fish. They are searching for the bugs, but you will not see many bugs on the water. Fish it blind, under trees.Summer solstice is when it peaked. This is typical from what I read. I’m tracking all the cicada emergences within a 8 hour drive of here.
