[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-fur-ant":3,"learn-term-cards-fur-ant":51},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":12,"category":29,"definitionShort":30,"description":18,"disciplineTags":31,"extension":32,"meta":33,"navigation":34,"path":35,"relatedCards":36,"relatedTerms":40,"seo":47,"sourceRef":48,"stem":49,"term":5,"__hash__":50},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Ffur-ant.md","Fur Ant",[7,8,9,10,11],"flying ant","fur ant fly","dubbed ant","black ant","cinnamon ant",{"type":13,"value":14,"toc":25},"minimark",[15,19,22],[16,17,18],"p",{},"Ants fall onto the water all summer, and trout eat them with confidence because a real ant can't crawl out once it's stuck in the film. The Fur Ant copies that profile: a fat back hump and a fat front hump of dubbed fur, pinched to a thin waist, with a turn or two of hackle around the middle for legs and just enough float to keep it riding flush.",[16,20,21],{},"Tie or buy it in sizes 14-20. Black is the default and covers most carpenter and field ants; cinnamon matches the smaller red ants common near streamside grass and timber. Go smaller on flat, clear water and pressured fish.",[16,23,24],{},"This is a low, clear-water fly. Fish it on a dead drift, the same as any small dry, but expect it to sit in the surface film rather than perch high on top, so it can be hard to see - track its drift line and watch for the actual sip instead of setting on shadows. It works best on warm, calm summer afternoons with water in the mid-50s to mid-70s, when no hatch is on but fish are looking up. It is a good searching pattern and a strong second fly below a hopper. After a windy day, fish it tight to the bank where ants blow in.",{"title":26,"searchDepth":27,"depth":27,"links":28},"",2,[],"fly","A simple terrestrial dry fly that imitates an ant - two fur-dubbed humps pinched to a narrow waist, with a turn of hackle at the middle. Sits low and flush in the surface film, where trout key on ants stuck in the water through summer.",[29],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Ffur-ant",[37,38,39],"the-hopper-dropper","reading-the-surface-film","reading-rises",[41,42,43,44,45,46],"terrestrials-summer","hopper","foam-beetle","dry-fly","dead-drift","surface-film",{"description":18},"fly:fur-ant","learn\u002Fglossary\u002Ffur-ant","6Qtv14qtNGDcFJjGd2w4wv0HT90rwjtsopdRl3ia53o",[]]