Big A wrote:
If ants work/don't work, try other terrestrial-type flies like spiders, bees,
crickets and/or grasshoppers ! Seems like some of those should produce !
Haven't tried them on trout, but when we were kids fishing for bass below the dam and would run out of worms/ 'crawlers, we'd take a willow branch, bend and tie it in a loop, put a shirt/
T-shirt over it for a net and catch grasshoppers in the nearby field of
tall grass for bait ! Worked pretty
good for bass, so I would think it should also work for trout !
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Used lots of grasshoppers as a kid. Panfish and catfish, not a lot of trout around. Guess I’ll be using a grasshopper pattern here on the North Platte. Hear August is the month for trout filling up on them. Might have to go up in line weight they cast 3 flies at time a lot.