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Spant Fly Tying Instructions by Charlie Craven

Spant Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) HOOK: #12-20 Tiemco 100SP-BL https://charliesflybox.com/products/t... THREAD: Black Veevus 14/0 UNI-Thread https://charliesflybox.com/products/v... GASTER: Rusty Spinner Superfine dubbing https://charliesflybox.com/products/s... WING: Natural deer hock hair https://charliesflybox.com/products/a... HACKLE: Brown rooster https://charliesflybox.com/collection... HEAD: Black Superfine dubbing https://charliesflybox.com/products/s... If you have ever been simultaneously lucky enough and cursed enough to encounter a flying ant fall, the pattern I am featuring this month will make some sense. While not nearly so predictable as many other insect hatches, flying ant falls happen often during the summer months and can bring on some spectacular no-holds-barred feeding from the trout. If you are fortunate enough to have a box of imitative patterns in your pocket, the fishing can be spectacular too. The hardest part of fishing an ant fall is determining that there is one happening. Many times I have encountered rising fish with no visible insects on the water, and in most cases, when the wind was blowing a gale. Trying to determine just what they are feeding on is an exercise in frustration, as our angler minds are classically trained to think of emergers in situations like this. Every single ant fall I have encountered has been an epiphany for me, as I typically work my way through a litany of mayfly and midge emerger patterns before remembering that little box of ants I carry. Once I calm myself down enough to get one knotted to my tippet, the fishing has been, to an instance, fantastic, with some of the largest and usually pickiest fish I encounter falling easy prey to the right fly. The Spant is my version of a spent flying ant pattern. I came up with this fly many years ago after encountering a flying ant fall on a high mountain lake. The ants were blown from the tall evergreens surrounding the lake, and the fish wasted no time in getting on them. I did not have anything suitable to match the ants at the time, so I made do with a few of my larger midge patterns. They worked okay, but after a little time at the vise, the Spant was born. I started by tying up some traditional flying ant patterns but they have many problems. Number one on this list is; they don't float very well. The Spant has this covered with its buoyant wide-spread deer hair wings and broad hackle legs. The other problem with traditional ties is that they are so hard to see on the water. While the Spant doesn't show up like a beacon, it is much more visible than any of the other patterns I tried. The best part of the Spant is that it looks so realistic from the fishes view. I try to keep a very prominent thin waist on the fly between the front of the hackle and the head section. A prominent tight ball dubbing at the rear of the fly helps to accurately imitate the abdomen (gaster) which is so apparent on the natural. I take special care to tie the wings sparsely so as to reflect the translucence of the naturals. I typically wrap a five turn hackle collar to create some surface area to help float the fly, but have occasionally thinned that down to three wraps on smaller flies. I have tied the Spant in black and rusty brown most commonly, given our larger sized mountain ant’s coloration, but all black or all rusty variations are certainly worth having in the fly box. My typical size range extends from monstrous size twelves down to diminutive 20’s. Tie a few of my Spants up and stash them in your box. They have proven themselves on such varied waters as the South Platte, Henry's Fork and Depuy's Spring Creek. As I mentioned before, the Spant is a great pattern for high mountain lakes as well. Cruising fish seem particularly prone to eating an ant, regardless of whether or not there are good numbers of them on the water. A crime of opportunity awaits every ant along a high mountain shoreline and a hungry trout ends up being the culprit. I like to cast the Spant six to ten feet in front of a cruising fish and let the fly sit. If the fish seems like he doesn't see it, I will give the fly the slightest twitch...that's usually all it takes.