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Great Use For Cicadas
By NORB WORMALD, Thu Dec 8th
You have permission to publish this article in its entiretyeither, electronically or in print, free of charge. As long asthe bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publicationwould be greatly appreciated! Thank You. GREAT USE FOR CICADIAS All you folks that are enduring thisyear's hatch of Cicadas I have some good news. Cicadas DEAD orALIVE make outstanding bait for large mouth bass and bluegills.I went fishing with my son and Grandson to a small pond. I tookabout a dozen Cicadas with us to see if they would work as bait.My son caught a nice large mouth on his first cast with thecicada. The bluegills also pecked them to pieces if they gotthere first. The cicadas are not very solid, so the fish ripthem off the hook a lot. You get the fish or he gets the baitfree and clear.
Before we knew it my son and grandson were spending more timerounding up cicadas for bait than actual time fishing. When theygot around another dozen cicadas for bait they would then startfishing again. The fish hit bait either way dead or alive. Theaction of the wings fluttering on the water just caused the fishto bite just a little quicker. If you only have dead bait then ajerky retrieve will speed up the fish's attack on the cicada. I did notice that there were fewer cicadas at the pond than athome. My son said "that could be that whenever a cicada
landedon water that was the end of him, NO second chance to fly aroundanymore". The guy that owns the pond came down to cast for bass. He had asmall supply of cicadas for bait with him. Every cast he eithercaught a bass or missed the hard fast bite. So I intend to offermy grandson a penny for every cicada he can get me for bait. Iwould suggest you to do the same for any young person you know.They get some lose pocket money for their efforts while you geta good supply of great bait. I plan to try using the cicadas to catch skipjack herring out ofthe Ohio River very shortly. If the cicadas work half as well onthe Skipjacks I will be delighted. I think skipjacks are a goodbait to catch larger catfish out of the river around here. Evenif that fails I know they will enable me to get a supply ofbluegills. With the bluegills I then can seek out the flatheadsin this part of the Ohio River. At least we can put those noisy pests to good use after all!Tight lines to all. nlcatfish@fuse.net webmaster for CincinnatiCatfishing www.cincinnaticatfishing.com AND SHOP WITHOUTDROPPING www.cincinnaticatfishing.com/Shop1.html Links 4 FishingInformation And Supplieswww.cincinnaticatfishing.com/links4fishing.html
About the author:Have been catfishing around the Downtown Cincinnati area of theOhio River for over 40 years. Have gone catfishing to Lockport 5times over the past 10 years. It is the greastest place to catchlots of huge channel catsfish in North America!!
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