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If you were to ask yourself, what do fish eat, what comes to mind? For most people they would think about aquatic insects like may flies, caddis flies, damsel and dragon flies, minnows, shrimp, and crayfish. Heck you may even think marshmallows, can corn, or red worms, but how many of you thought ants, crickets, grasshoppers, and beetles? Believe it or not fish love terrestrial insects, and will eat them whenever given the opportunity.

When you see grasshoppers about and you come to a stretch of stream that flows through a meadow, I would try a hopper pattern to fish that area. Hopper season is your chance to catch some of the biggest trout of the season on a dry fly. Crickets are fish in similar circumstances and catch some very nice fish as well. Beetles have a season when they are abundant, and thus become important to the fly fisherman. However beetles are regional and seasonal also. Your best bet is close observation and social networking, get to know the people at your fly shop, take a fly tying course through the community college and work the instructors for information on patterns and when they occur.

The one that surprises most people is how abundant and widespread ants are, fish love ants and will often feed on them through out the day. If you think about your local stream and how many times you see grass, logs, and downed trees and limbs touching the water you begin to realize how many opportunities there are for ants to enter the water, and once there, how they could, and do, get picked off by waiting fish. Flying ants have been known to swarm on the water and create a feeding frenzy. Ants float in the surface film and trout can take them with the smallest of dimples, so you need to pay very close attention when on the water. The traditional pattern for an ant is two distinct clumps of black or cinnamon colored fur with a wisp of hackle between them to simulate legs. However the best pattern to imitate an ant is the MacMurray  ant. This imitation is made from two cylindrical shaped pieces of balsa wood threaded through the long axis with monofilament line and the ends of the line are melted to hold them in place. The two ends are then dipped in black or cinnamon paint. It gets tied to a hook and one or two turns of hackle to imitate the legs.

This is the most lifelike ant imitation I've ever seen and will dupe the smartest of trout. I hope that this information will help you catch more fish. I am Jerry Blake and I have been fly fishing for all of my life. My first rod was a fly rod at age 5 and I haven't been able to put it down yet (I have however gotten a few new rods to go with it). If you would like to know more about me please visit me at http://www.squidoo.com/what-do-fish-eat or if you would like to know everything you need to catch fish on a fly please go to Fly-fishing-101.info.

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