Sunk Ant 01/11/2025 Photo Album

Even though I experienced quite a bit of success over the previous summers with a sunk ant, for some reason I mostly abandoned it in 2024. I am not sure why, but ants are everywhere, and I plan to atone for my poor judgement in 2025. I enjoyed my earlier success on small high mountain streams, and this makes logical sense, since large black ants are constantly present on trees and woody branches bordering on these streams. My previous post of 01/02/2024 provides more information as well as links to prior posts.

Big Black Ant

My preferred fly tying instructional video can be found on YouTube, and the tutor is famed fly tier Kelly Galloup. I counted my supply and quickly realized that my storage bins contained adequate quantities of size 16, but a few additional size 14’s were desirable. I tied three large sunk ants, and I am now satisfied with my supply. Hopefully I can train my brain to knot a sunk ant to my line more frequently in the new season.

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