Archive for January 31st, 2010
31
Jan
10
Derek DeYoung’s Amazing Art
Ribbit, Ribbit
Dear Lord there is something as bizarre as Frogs in your greens: it is the craziness and adoration of Fred & Shane Dawson. These animated little guys foster pure adoration or hatred. I just find it all miraculous that the power of this medium has never transferred one infinitesimal bit to my efforts. So, I lack the theatrical, the absurd (pretty much), the imagination (Fred The Movie) and boyish charm. So, I will sit in obscurity like the frog in the greens. Hopefully getting more air.
31
Jan
10
Polski’s San River…Brown Trout
A simple and, I believe a neglected pattern, is the Ant. Afternoon winds on a lake, the big firs or pines waving in the wind, needles landing along the edges of the lake, and ants. Nice ‘n juicy (I don’t know if they are juicy or crunchy like a corn nuts) ants along the shoreline of streams. Alex Wild likes insects, in general, and Ants too.Very good images of a gazillion ants.
Florida Carpenter Ant (Alex Wild)
Damn lens! Really shows the flim & flam of the tying. Doubt the fish cares re an ant pattern, but I feel pretty good until the macro hones in on the dubbing, hackling and snips etc. So it is… The ants are what I have tied along the way. I fish them all with no thought of any differences between the patterns. Dumbbell-hourglass shape…a little hackling between the balls of dubbing. The matched small wings (hackle tips matched for length) can be black or white or ?. The balls of dubbing could be replaced with thread wraps to build up a body. Use 3/0 or 6/0 thread to match color you want. You could add a little lacquer to the thread wraps. The dubbing balls add some buoyancy in my estimation. The fly really does not have to float, but should best be in the top strata of water as if dropping from shoreline grass or blown in from tree tops. I tie most ant patterns on a size 12-14 hooks (14′s in pics), based upon shore side observations. I am sure others see ants bigger or smaller (red ant is size 16).
