Flying Ant

The Flying Ant imitates the winged reproductive ants (family Formicidae), which shed their wings after mating and then drift dead or dying on the water - unlike the wingless workers imitated by other ant patterns. No single inventor is recorded for this classic pattern.

During the so-called nuptial flight, neighbouring ant colonies often swarm in sync, so on some summer and late-summer days huge numbers of flying ants fall onto the water and trout hunt them downright selectively - usually in the afternoon. Dead flying ants sit in the film with the abdomen hanging down, held up by the spread wings - exactly the picture the Flying Ant delivers. It is tied barbless and fished on a free drift, in or just under the surface film.

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