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daver

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flying ants
« on: May 25, 2009, 06:20:05 AM »
a buddy and i are heading to the roche area this weekend and i am wondering with the warm weather, does anyone have an idea about the flying ants. with my luck they will be out all we and then screw me over for the weekend.  anyone else going up there this weekend? daver
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Re: flying ants
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2009, 09:52:54 AM »
Quote from: daver on May 25, 2009, 06:20:05 AM
a buddy and i are heading to the roche area this weekend and i am wondering with the warm weather, does anyone have an idea about the flying ants. with my luck they will be out all we and then screw me over for the weekend.  anyone else going up there this weekend? daver
It is my experience that it is a fairly unpredictable event. It will happen but exactly when is difficult to nail down. My solution is to always have a backup lake or two figured out before I go, so if I encounter this annoying aftermath, I move on it.
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Sir Snag-A-Lot

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Re: flying ants
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2009, 11:27:46 AM »
I haven't fished the Roche area much, but haven't really had any success on lakes with ant patterns in the past.  They have worked great for me on streams, but I have always found other patterns to be much more successful on lakes, even during a major ant hatch. 
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Re: flying ants
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2009, 03:28:38 PM »
We went up to a lake in the wack area last Friday.
Huge flying ant hatch going on, but I was the only one of the day to catch fish using a Olive (Flash) Woolly Bugger (didnt have ant patterns).
I ended up hooked 6 and missing around 7 more, while my other 5 friends in total only hooked 3 trying to match the hacth.
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Re: flying ants
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2009, 09:25:49 AM »
Where I fish, ant hatches tend to occur in the heat of the late afternoon, when the fish are down.  I always end up fishing deep water patterns while the little buggers are flying into me!
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Re: flying ants
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2009, 08:53:23 PM »
I think Daver is alluding to the fact that after trout gorge on a big ant hatch, they tend to get upset tummies and sulk on the bottom for a few days after the feast to digest.

Kinda like my buddy's family who all migrate to the living room floor after every thanksgiving dinner.  They lie there for an hour, moaning and groaning.

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Re: flying ants
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2009, 10:38:58 AM »
Quote from: drivel on June 10, 2009, 08:53:23 PM
I think Daver is alluding to the fact that after trout gorge on a big ant hatch, they tend to get upset tummies and sulk on the bottom for a few days after the feast to digest.

Kinda like my buddy's family who all migrate to the living room floor after every thanksgiving dinner.  They lie there for an hour, moaning and groaning.

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Thats how I interpreted it also, that is why I try to have a backup lake planned if I'm travelling very far away from home. I've seen fish go down for a couple of days after a gorging on ants, and if I only have a couple of days off, I'm not waiting around for them to get hungry again.
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