Fishing Bonanza 2024

A rare, historically massive cicada season is coming (wkyt.com)

When/if they emerge at your locale flyfish the surface with poppers for some unforgettable fights. Everything in the water comes to the surface to feast.

 

...I ain't no kathlick...

 

When I was a pipefitter apprentice, mid 70s, my boss knew I fished with a fly rod a lot and invited me along with his son to Dale Hollow Lake in TN just to fly rod the locust (cicada) hatch that year. It was just like I said, everything in the water was coming to the surface to feed - catfish, drum, carp, buffalo sucker, everything except bass and other sport fish which had their bellies full already. The water at Dale Hollow Lake is crystal clear, the bottom can be seen down to about 30', big bass could be seen lounging around but could not be enticed to strike, but we caught everything else, including an eighteen lb carp on a fly rod. It was fun and memorable.

The last locust year here my wife and I literally filled a freezer with channel cats from trot and limb lining.

 

Yep, the dogs eat them like candy too.

No doubt.

 

Oh, they're not super active or nimble, they're actually quite clumsy, flying into everything and each other there's so many of them, actually you can pick up all you want from the sides of trees and off the ground. I've frozen them and used them for fish bait the next year with good success.

 

cicadas in Canada? - Search (bing.com)

FYI, jar flies are annual cicadas, these cicadas coming this year are 13 & 17 year cicadas.