Cicadas can be fished on rivers or edges of lakes, and what
great fun it is watching a brown slowly rise up and engulf a size 6 dry fly.
Cicadas being quite large tend to drop into the water with quite a splash, so a
delicate presentation is not required. A favorite trick is to drop the fly onto
the water just upstream of a feeding trout by landing it in any over hanging
grass at the stream edge and then giving it a gentle pull. About the only thing
you can do wrong when fishing cicadas is to use too small a fly, size 6, 8 and
10 being the norm.
Cicadas can be fished on rivers or edges of lakes, and what
great fun it is watching a brown slowly rise up and engulf a size 6 dry fly.
Cicadas being quite large tend to drop into the water with quite a splash, so a
delicate presentation is not required. A favorite trick is to drop the fly onto
the water just upstream of a feeding trout by landing it in any over hanging
grass at the stream edge and then giving it a gentle pull. About the only thing
you can do wrong when fishing cicadas is to use too small a fly, size 6, 8 and
10 being the norm.
