I know this is a little late. Haven't checked these forums in a while.
Me and my buddy took our bass boat out this past Saturday. We loaded a little ole tube style cricket holder full of cicadas to see if they would work.
Within 30 minutes they were all gone due to them being eaten by something! Evertime we would throw em in the water a bluegill or a sunfish would snatch it up almost immediatly. We had to have caught about 17 or 18 fish. The only reason we stopped was we ran out of cicadas.
It was really really fun.
We were just fishing a bank between Drakes creek Marina and Saunders ferry Park on Old Hickory Lake.