These are great! Glad a 3-segmented ant body is included for fish that can count 🙂. All of my flytiers only tie 2-segment ants. I'll need to gently correct them.
These are great! Glad a 3-segmented ant body is included for fish that can count 🙂. All of my flytiers only tie 2-segment ants. I'll need to gently correct them.
I’d use it now on the Delaware system as Cahills are present. I’d also use it at the beginning of Sulphur season before those tiny Dorothea’s become the fly of choice.
My top producers this summer have been a wet ant swung along sunken structure and a tungsten bead head ant in the riffles. I tie these in three sizes with an appropriate size bead.
Another offering for popsflies - The Deer Fly but tied with the optional grizzly hackle wing tips and grizzly hackle.
Pop, aka Harry K. Cameron (1894-1973), kept a little black notebook and a stack of index cards with 99 different hand-drawn fly patterns and their recipes. He tied these flies and fished them on the Arkansas and South Platte Rivers west of Colorado Springs, CO.
Loving the OC versions. The dry I used to tie had multiple wing segments tied from head to tail into the body. I think I ended up using it as a salmonfly pattern.
Hook - Curved
Bead - Black nickel or black
Weight - .035″ lead-free wire
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Amber vinyl rib, medium
Body - Orange dubbing
Wing case - Pearl Flashabou, 8 strands
Wing - Brown hackle tips
Legs -Brown hen
Antennae - Natural pheasant tail fibers
Head - Rusty orange dubbing and black dubbing