Description

Ants get blown into the water by the wind and washed into the water by rain. Sometmes they float and sometimes they sink. This fly sink real slow like a drowned ant. Itie this on a nymph hook and use a soft hackle to help it sink just below the surface. Trout and panfish love to eat these durng the spring and summer. You can tie the same pattern using a dry fly hook, dry fly dubbing and rooster hackle so it will float on the srface. Try different colors and sizes. Ihope you catch lots of fish with this ant pttern.

Materials

Hook: Tiemco 3769, Size: 10-20 Thread: Black Ultra thread 70 denier Abdomen: Peacock Ice Dub Thorax: Peacock Ice Dub Hackle: Whiting Black Hen Neck

Step 1

 First, place the hook into the vise.

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Now start your thread and take a few wraps back over the tag.

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  Then cut off the tag and wrap your thread all the way back to the starting point.

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Then wrap the dubbing onto the hook to form a ball which will be the abdomen.

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To prepare the hackle pull off the fuzz that is on the stem.

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 Now tie the feather onto the hook.

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Now take your scissors and cut off the tag.

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