Pamuddler
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Cicada
Hi All
Need some help in finding a pattern for a Cicada ( 17 year locust)
I was told that this is the year
Does anyone have a pattern or seen a good looking one
I forget what colors they look like
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bear-kodiak
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Hi Pamuddler: Fly shop by me sells kits....jim
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Try this site, you might find on there. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/ ORIGINAL: Pamuddler
Hi All
Need some help in finding a pattern for a Cicada ( 17 year locust)
I was told that this is the year
Does anyone have a pattern or seen a good looking one
I forget what colors they look like
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bear-kodiak
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am trying again for a picture.....
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Esox_Hunter
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Taken from the site saltflyfisher recommended.... For instructions go to http://www.flyanglersonline.com/ and type "cicada" into the search feature in the top left, this fly below was the first link to come up.
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 An adult cicada 
post edited by fishin coyote - 2008/02/20 20:04:26
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Try tying the Madam X with the appropriate colors. It'll splang 'em!
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Pamuddler
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Thank you all for the info
I liked the one made out of deer hair,should float all day
Its the one that Mike put in from flyfishingconnection.com
Thanks again
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Pgh Kid
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Years ago I tied this pattern and it worked really well - for both trout and bass:
Spun black deer hair
palmered orange saddle hackel
trim the top and bottom of the fly so it is flat. It will float all day. The vein in the cicada is orange. Very simple and productive pattern.
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Pamuddler
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Hi Pgh Kid, might give it a try
Did you shape the body before you palmered the hackle?
How much larger was the hackle to the body and did you clip the hackle top and bottom to?
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Pamuddler
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My new Fly Tyer magazine came today and there is a foam back cicada in there.
I will give it a try to.Will need to find some orange and black round rubber legs for this pattern
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FFP has an new article on the cicada. I think everyone believes across the state is going to be plastered with these things. They are NOT in all areas of the state this year.
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Jeremy's right, it wont be statewide, but it will be heavy in areas. ....cant wait!
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ORIGINAL: thedrake
Jeremy's right, it wont be statewide, but it will be heavy in areas. ....cant wait!
They will be heavy in the sucker domain ;) We still on for 1pm?
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Will there be any in the Kettle Creek Watershed?
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I'm very familiar with the terms "RUN AND GUN" and "FISH ON!" "They're in here I can smell 'em"
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in the fly book 'Flies for Trout' there is a pattern called the Stalcup's Cicada.
HOOK; dry fly, 2x long #8
THREAD; black
BODY; black poly yarn
WING; pearl crystal flash over which is white calf tail over squirrel tail dyed
orange. (these are tied on like a caddis wing.)
BULLETHEAD AND COLLAR; black deer body hair, tied in reverse . (tie in the deer hair about a 1/4 or so behind the hook eye with the tips facing over the hook eye. then fold the deer hair back over itself and tie off which will make a bullet head. the deer tips should extend to about the hook point.)
LEGS; black rubber hackle tied in at the collar where you tied off the deer hair
it resembles a caddis dry only on a larger scale.
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2008 (2025) XIV Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Cumberland, Franklin, Huntingdon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Perry, Potter, Schuylkill, Snyder, Tioga, Union, and York Counties; last emerged in 1991 These are the counties listed for this years Brood 14 hatch. Not the same as the one from 2004, it's not nearly as widespread. I was actually working with Hoover that year and came up with a pretty effective pattern. I was also told by Scott Loughner that they were catching carp and walleye on cicada patterns in 04.... http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/periodical_cicada.htm I think the most important parts of a cicada pattern are the variegated black and orange bellies and something that goes SSSPLAAT when it lands!!
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