> I have never used cicadas for bait. They were too neat and pretty
sounding.
> Their grubs though, those things look like monsters from Sci Fi movies.
Used
> to dig them up as a kid playing with my trucks in the dirt. Find their
> shells on the bases of big Jack Pines.
>
> I have used some strange baits. One that probably sounds the oddest is the
> berries of Deadly Night shade- Solanum dulcamara. These berries have a
> meaty smelling juice in them. They are related to tomatoes, but poisonous
to
> humans. Pretty plants with purple and yellow flowers. As far as bugs, just
> catching grasshoppers along the shore and using them, crickets too.
Nothing
> out of the ordinary. Oh yeah, the occassional deer or horse fly that
thought
> it could suck my blood has ended up on my hook.
>
> Ray
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