A once-in-17-year Cicada hatch is about to emerge across portions of the Midwest, Ohio River Valley, and Tennessee River Valley, if they already haven’t. We’re talking a hatch in the trillions. We don’t get many up here in the north but the noise they make is easy to recognize. Are you ready for Cicada Brood X?

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-brood-x-17-years-2021/

I'm hoping this means lots of bass on cicada pattern flies! Got a 5wt glass fly rod I built just for this.

Over 25 years ago I was fortunate to see hundreds if not thousands of giant cicadas all around me. It was an awesome experience. 

I love sitting outside around a fire and listening to them. 

I remember the last one here when I was a teenager. The topwater bite that summer was unreal. 

No hatch here yet 

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

No hatch here yet 

 

I'm outside of Chicago and I've seen two cicadas so far

 

I remember girls getting spooked and wanting to cuddle up when you walked through the neighborhood at night.  

 

We get cicada years, too, but I remember a rhinoceros butterfly plague, when bass with distended bellies would impale themselves on any red popper.  

The hard part was keeping your windshield clean enough to get to the river.  

On 5/4/2021 at 8:57 PM, gimruis said:

Are you ready for Cicada Brood X?

If I didn't know any better, I would think that is a horror movie.

 

 

On 5/5/2021 at 4:51 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

I remember the last one here when I was a teenager. The topwater bite that summer was unreal. 

This has me excited!

It gets busy about July or august the best I recall. Our big hatch here will be in 2025. 

My driveway was covered in dead ones yesterday 

Haven’t seen or even heard them yet.

Here in the mountains, we've not seen many cicadas, just sporadic.

The few that I do see usually has a giant Asian hornet mauling it to death......something to see.