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You can spend far too much time matching the hatch. There's a shortcut -- try real grasshoppers, yellow jackets, stump grubs, wasp larva or other unsually "land locked" baits or their imitations. After, from the piscatorial point of view, terrestials simply signal "eat me" without the evasive practices of aquatic insects.
Other species that work well include ants -- especially during the breeding season when queens fly high to mate in the sky and the drones die. Stump grubs found in old dead and well-rotted stumps do the job as well. I've used termites and other odd critters in the tropics as well. Grasshoppers are particularly good. Real ones can't jump out of ditches deeper than they are high, and they can't fly early in the morning on dewy days. So you can chase 'hoppers into ditches and such. The American Indians did that. Or you can head out with a flyswatter and lightly whomp enough for bait. The key here is a container that lets you get one hopper out at a time. Pop bottles work. So do a batch of store-bought containers. Fish these critters where you've ind them. On windy days, for example, a quick walk along a lake or stream bank may send 'hoppers and others into the water. Add your own Judas bait well-hooked on a light wire hook and, if needed, with a float for casting bait and expect action. Otherwise, you can try flies like the traditional Joe's Hopper that I favor of a host of more recent and doubtless more politically correct imitations. I've used this system all over the world and taken all sorts of fish with it in freshwater. Incidentally, some of the bugs you might use for bait in the tropics seem big enough to tote off a teacup poodle and a number have pinchers, singers etc. So take a cautious approach to start.
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