Terrestrial Trout Food - Ants

The best airborne ant activity occurs along with the presence of thunderstorms, warm and drizzly weather is excellent. Columns of ants to be seen rising up into the air around major structures, such as trees or land mass. This is a mating ritual as clouds of male ants vie for the larger, but much fewer females. Many will end up on the water and if the light levels are low the fish can be very content to sip down as many as they can.

Fly fishing strategy

Speculate the accumulations, approach cautiously and present delicate fly patterns such as a small black ant. Black spinner can work quite well. We’ve had quite a bit of success with a small CDC emerger and sometimes a small royal wolf

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Fly fishing Tasmania - techniques for catching trout when flying ants are about.