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Title: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 14, 2017, 08:10:07 AM


2017 -44

It didn't look like the forecast of 73 and sunny as we suffered through a cool and drizzly morning without seeing any carp or hearing many of the brood vi cicada. But gradually the skies cleared and the volume of the chirping reached 72 db. As the day wore on the action heated up and more and more carp were spotted.

https://youtu.be/4F4qzPbcFiA

Waiting for a ride with the essentials

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Brood VI

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36 lbs.

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30 lbs

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My fortune from dinner on the way home.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Jfey on May 14, 2017, 09:06:55 AM
That's what's up 0:0.  Beast mode grassies.
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 14, 2017, 09:22:27 AM
Fuuuuk. Yessss.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Michael Toris on May 14, 2017, 09:55:32 AM
https://youtu.be/Y7R1EYfZxHw

From the day before

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: troutfanatic on May 14, 2017, 13:10:59 PM
Good stuff. Smoke em'
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 14, 2017, 14:04:52 PM
nice video work there boys...

here's the Spork doing battle with a common...


https://vimeo.com/217400225
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: mtnman on May 14, 2017, 15:40:28 PM
You've been living right! Saw the video on instagram and was insta-jealous. You or anyone else got a cicada pattern you'd recommend? I need to tie something up and get after them.
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Onslow on May 14, 2017, 19:59:50 PM
You all can suggit
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: driver on May 14, 2017, 20:06:32 PM
Just finished cleaning the boat of all of the KY jelly that pours off thos bitches.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Phil on May 14, 2017, 20:31:57 PM
Hells yeah!  bd;0
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 15, 2017, 06:31:22 AM
Quote from: mtnman on May 14, 2017, 15:40:28 PM
You've been living right! Saw the video on instagram and was insta-jealous. You or anyone else got a cicada pattern you'd recommend? I need to tie something up and get after them.


I tied some ugly things on a #1 b10s, after four refusals, I stole one fro driver that was on a #2 or 4, it looked something like this except he used a holographic plastic from the craft store for the wing

https://youtu.be/tp6iAqqKdSE



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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Fin on May 15, 2017, 07:49:51 AM
QuoteYou or anyone else got a cicada pattern you'd recommend?

My version is based on Harry Steeves UFO pattern.  It has been very effective and durable.

They say variety is the spice of life however so I'm changing it up this year and whipping out a few of these.  I have no doubt that they will work but I am concerned with how well they will hold up.  Super glued on foam makes me nervous.  20+ pound carp will probably destroy these but hey, they look good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcUgzxCPo4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcUgzxCPo4)

Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: driver on May 15, 2017, 07:54:30 AM
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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: jwgnc on May 15, 2017, 09:32:47 AM
Talk about carpe diem 😀
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Grannyknot on May 15, 2017, 10:46:27 AM
damn that looks like fun
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 15, 2017, 11:35:24 AM
Supposed to be some early brood X around K-ville, Cory. Git some!

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Aka on May 15, 2017, 15:54:08 PM
Y'all suck

Saw this on a roof I was on today and started wishing I had a bote real bad.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 17, 2017, 08:26:26 AM
No mo bent hooks

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: driver on May 17, 2017, 12:15:29 PM
Too heavy. Tie in lots of foam

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 17, 2017, 15:27:54 PM
Quote from: driver on May 17, 2017, 12:15:29 PM
Too heavy. Tie in lots of foam

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We shall see, I also tied up some on #2 & #6 b10s hooks




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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 18, 2017, 16:03:13 PM
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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: DRIFTS on May 20, 2017, 07:34:35 AM
That's bad ass!

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 21, 2017, 10:08:01 AM


J and I decided to get in on the action  inaction.
We met early after Fin crayfished out. Again! And headed south.

Nearing the destination we stopped for gas, snacks and more hydration.

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Ammo.

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Weapon. Old 8 wt. Old Medalist 1498.  V:;

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We motored over to our first target area and saw lots of live and dead bugs on the water and quite a few flyers.
But no eaters. We saw one big cruising fish.
We rounded the point and we both saw a feeding common at the same time. I slapped it down and it refused it.
It turned away and circled. I slapped it down again and got a solid take. Game on!
I easily kept it out of the wood, then he turned all big boy on me and sounded. It was close to 5 minutes before we saw him again and a few more before J netted him.

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J was up next.
He cast, I motored.
He cast, I motored.
He cast, I motored.
He.....well, you get the picture.
We saw zero more feeding fish. We saw a minimal number of cruisers.
J had a grassie nose his fly once. Excruciating.
Then, he finally had a strike!

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We met up with Matt, Jeff and their buddy Aaron who were kayaking.
Good to see those two on the water.  :o
And they both scored. I'll let them post up their pics.  bd;0

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We split up, fished on and continued to fail.
J and I finally threw in the towel and headed for the ramp shit show take out. Bunch of stupid humans.
We finally got loaded up and snacked on some pulled pork in the parking lot.
Hit the road afterwards. J drove, I continued to drink.
7 hours of driving, 1 carp, 1 bluegill.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: driver on May 21, 2017, 11:52:53 AM
Odd. What was the weather like? The salt was not pleasing as well.

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 21, 2017, 12:40:00 PM
Sunny, a little breezy. Lots of boat/jet ski/human traffic. I think it's on the downside. Like our Sunday last year. The switch got flipped. I cast for 45 minutes and watched Jabob after that. I drank a lot. I was happy.


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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: benben reincarnated on May 21, 2017, 14:17:28 PM
Fishy


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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 21, 2017, 14:40:41 PM
Ben

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Big J on May 21, 2017, 16:53:20 PM
Long friggin day for a bluegill.
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Jfey on May 21, 2017, 19:24:37 PM
Like Doug said it was a pretty slow day, with one exception. 

Bully, Aaron(not AK) and I had the kayak armada out on the water.  Bully got a small common early and I totally effed up the hook set on another.   About 30 minutes later a saw what looked like a tarpon inhaling cicadas.   First cast and it was on.  Pretty sweet to fight a fish like that in a kayak. After that. Nada.  We explored about as far as you can paddling an didn't see another fish.  I still walked away smiling.   

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 21, 2017, 19:45:50 PM
This does my heart good.

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You big, beautiful bastard.  d:b
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Jfey on May 21, 2017, 20:02:10 PM
It was good to see you buddy 0:0
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Onslow on May 22, 2017, 14:58:43 PM
Takes some skills to land em in a kayak for sure.  Looks like a blast
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 22, 2017, 17:07:45 PM
https://vimeo.com/218100435
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: thenextlevel on May 23, 2017, 09:12:00 AM
My crew and I were there on Sunday the 21st. We had an excellent day between the three of us probably put 15ish fish in the boat



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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on May 23, 2017, 09:25:23 AM
Doink!

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 23, 2017, 11:32:35 AM
Sweet, things were slow for us on thurs, glad you got some good action before the monsoons took over


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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: thenextlevel on May 23, 2017, 11:53:26 AM
When we got there in the morning it was dumping buckets. We pushed through it. Rain was on and off all day. About 1:30 the skies opened again and we called it a day


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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 25, 2017, 08:45:28 AM
2017 – 45

Catching up...

This is the 18th year of the semi-annual Psycho Fly Fishing gatherings, I've been to a lot of them over the years, missed too many, so I made an extra effort to be there all four days this year, but when Rhody called and said "lets chase some cicada eating carp" I headed a little further west.

We saw plenty of carp, but most weren't interested in eating naturals or our imitations. We both hooked into some large commons that took us to the trees and broke us off. The wind picked up and that didn't help, but we had beer!
Maybe we were on the wrong part of the lake, but finally I hooked into a large grassie, thirty-six inches long with a Buddha belly, it weighed in at thirty plus pounds.

With thunderstorms popping up we called it a day and I drove on to the PFF in Shady Valley.

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I tied these up on 1/0 Mustad C70s D Big Game Light 2x heavy / standard which are about the same size as a #2 B10S which we were bending on the last outing. Jason thought they would be too heavy but this was the fly that worked for me...

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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Jfey on May 25, 2017, 10:24:07 AM
Def a fattie.  Those grassies are well fed.
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on May 27, 2017, 21:56:33 PM
Dem boyz is still killin it on the lake


For those that didn't see it before here is carpageddon a few years back on Blewes Lake

https://vimeo.com/68186784


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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: DRIFTS on June 04, 2017, 06:24:08 AM
Dam gum boys  :o ...wish musky had that kinda fight!
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: DRIFTS on June 04, 2017, 06:26:21 AM
Nice choice in brewskie there Woolly 0:0
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on June 04, 2017, 06:50:19 AM
The leaner and meaner Dayumson.
And the RH retrieve Bum.
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Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 05, 2017, 13:02:24 PM
Broods IX and X are coming soon...
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Onslow on June 10, 2017, 13:53:37 PM
Brood IV.  I'm going to exploit this one.

http://magicicada.org/magicicada/brood_09/
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Woolly Bugger on June 12, 2017, 15:04:33 PM
https://vimeo.com/221168013

watch all the trout setters.....
Title: Re: Brood VI
Post by: Dougfish on June 12, 2017, 15:37:47 PM
Fucking pitiful casting, refusals, small carp.

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