is this a locust?

[lloyd3]

At 3 1/2 inch long and no wings, it's all I could think of.

[DrLogik]

Looks like one. Locusts, I think, are grasshoppers with wings that hoard together in search of food. I also think they shed their wings at some point but can't be sure. Either way, that looks like some serious live bait!

[bluesjay]

Hi Guys, There may be a central 'dot' in the middle of the 'forehead. Take a long shank hook and stick it and then turn the hook so the bend is to the rear. Push the hook 'til the eye of the hook is inside the poor creature and there is just line, tippet material sticking out. Get in a rubber ducky at Missoula and fish through the canyon and downstream for a week. I have no idea if that's a locust but my trick works with grasshoppers.

Jay Edwards

[barebo]

That is the mother of all Grasshoppers! We have some meaty ones here in NY but that one would be a trophy.

[JMQ4]

It would be big news if it were a locust. It's a nymph though, hasn't developed wings yet.

[DrLogik]

The difference between grasshoppers and Locusts:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wha ... custs.html

[GRASSNGLASS]

Sort of looks like a Plains Lubber Grasshopper.

If anything like the lubber grasshoppers we have here in Florida they are very destructive.

Barry

[bassman]

Is it a rainbow trout or a steelhead?

[Bucktrout]

Yep, I think it’s a Lubber. Looks like the one I dissected in biology class many years ago.

Eric

[bassman]

Right now my wife, usually upbeat and busy with her gardens is in a bummed out I don't give a crap" mood since grasshoppers are having a record year here in western OK and are destroying everything she plants. Our archway entryway is covered with Ivy but this year the hoppers have eaten even that halfway up where they could jump. Her beautiful bushes next to the porch have had virtually every leaf eaten off and everything green is either gone or full of holes. She's not happy with hoppers this year and birds that would feast on them are way down.

[bluesjay]

Hi Guys, You need Seagulls....

Jay Edwards

[Flykuni3]

Whut 9' 5wt works on that bug?

[Bucktrout]

0X tippet and you’re good to go

Eric

[tunafart]

I believe it's a Brachystola magna, the 'western Lubber',
which, to me, doesn't seem to occur as commonly, or get quite as colorful
as those found in FL and the coastal plain.
Look it up here:
https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/lubber-grasshopper/

look right??

Paul
Charleston SC

[lloyd3]

Thanks Paul, that may be it. Never heard of that one before here in Colorado.

[Cimarron]

Is that a locust, or are you glad to see me - to paraphrase May West.