nice cicada pattern

[pillcaster]

FYI - I tied a couple of these, were fun. I liked the dubbing under the foam idea....
http://www.flyflinger.com/cicada.php

[ScottP]

Cool fly; that's a hunk of protein. You going to fish them for trout? smallies?

Regards,
Scott

[pillcaster]

Smallies, and we are due for the 17 year version (red eyes, orange legs) - some have been seen already in the higher elevations.....
Trout would find them tasty also - maybe those browns on Mossy?

[ScottP]

Trout would find them tasty also - maybe those browns on Mossy?

I'd love to see what happens if you plop one tight to the bank here



here



or here



Enjoy the awakening; doesn't look like we'll get much of Brood I this far from the Blue Ridge.

Regards,
Scott

[NewTyer 1]

Nice fly. Perhaps you can make some eyes out of heavy fishing line and secure them down before you return the thread to the body

[WarrenP]

A tying friend of mine makes his eyes with the round small diameter foam that you would make ants with. He just lays it on top of the black foam right behind the hook eye and then folds the foam that is extended over the hook eye back over it to the next tie down point.

[pillcaster]

Eyes - I did add some to the pattern, I usually use these I get from J stockard http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/...ymph-Eyes.html

[pillcaster]

A tying friend of mine makes his eyes with the round small diameter foam that you would make ants with. He just lays it on top of the black foam right behind the hook eye and then folds the foam that is extended over the hook eye back over it to the next tie down point.

Hello Warren! Do you mean these? http://www.jsflyfishing.com/cgi-bin/...nt-Bodies.html

[CoachBob]

Our cicada (Louisiana) arrive in two, five, thirteen, or seventeen year cycles and are black, brown, olive, rust or green. No one actually seems to know when they are going to arrive, but when they do you can't miss them.

[RALMD11]

I'd love to see what happens if you plop one tight to the bank here



here



or here



Enjoy the awakening; doesn't look like we'll get much of Brood I this far from the Blue Ridge.

Regards,
Scott

Is that Mossy Creek? I'd love to float a Cicada near those undercut banks.