The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
Ants
Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
As mentioned in the substitution area, white foam can be used with a permanent marker to achieve a variety of colors. This can be superior because there are many more marker colors than there are foam colors and while ants come in yellow, red, black and brown in the real world, we all know how well purple does for other fly patterns…
Ant patterns are often difficult to see and you’re forced to sacrifice a realistic profile just to get it to float. While you take a few concessions in profile on this fly, you get maximum buoyancy which will help a lot in catching fish on this fly and seeing the strikes.
Because you lose a little realism with foam on such a small insect like an ant vs a hard body or fur ant imitation, I like to fish dual ants and use this as the first fly and then a more realistic, harder to see/float ant pattern. It’s best to cover all your bases and once one starts to out fish the other, you can make adjustments from there or just keep catching fish as is. Put the flies about 18 – 24 inches apart.
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