Quote Originally Posted by stumphunter View Post
I took these pictures of a Cicada emerging in 2011. Was very interesting to watch and thought the pics would come handy tying a fly to match the colors. That year we had a large hatch and on the lakes the fish would gouge on the cicadas when they would fall into the lake.

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Here is a picture of one after the wing had dried and the brown colors once the cicada had died.

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This color phase usually hatch every summer it is known as the periodical Cicada the 17 yr is almost black with orange Blane Chocklet of New Angle FlyFishing tyes the most realistic pattern ck it out on YouTube .