Re: NANFA-- Off topic: East US Cicadas

Wallace Bilingham (wally_pike-in-hotmail.com)
Thu, 13 May 2004 22:26:09 +0000

I remember the last time they were out 17 years ago I was 16 and living in
Maryland. For about a month the fishing was horrible. All the bass were full
of them and would not bite-in-anything.

Wally

>From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
>Reply-To: nanfa-in-aquaria.net
>To: nanfa-in-aquaria.net
>Subject: Re: NANFA-- Off topic: East US Cicadas
>Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:00:03 EDT
>
>In a message dated 5/13/04 2:14:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>anutej-in-loxinfo.co.th writes:
>
> > http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=520364
>
>One thing is for sure they make the best fish bait in the world. I once
>caught two gunny sacks full of channel catfish in one afternoon on them.
>Broad
>daylight had these channel cats on the surface eating these bugs as fast as
>they
>could gulp them down. I always liked the sound too. There is a yearly
>variety
>too so-in-certain times of the year you can here the "jar flies" every
>year.
>But only the 17 and 13 year kind number in the billions.
>
>Moon
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