I should have known

Wanted to fish on Tuesday after a TU board meeting Monday night. I picked Big Fishing Creek because I just could not make up my mind where on Spring to fish, I know a tough problem to have. I drove up the canyon from the Federal Hatchery in Larmar and was surprised to see how low the water was, stopped above SIG Center at the big pull off on the right opposite the big rock slide on the left side of the road and just walked up and down looking after I chased a Great Blue Heron out and moved the ducks away, things began to happen one then two then three and on and on. Walked to the car to get ready and low and behold something landed on me- a #16 Black Flying Ant!!! Got dressed and walked to the bottom of the pool on the road and began to fish upstream, picking one after another till I got to the area near the parking lot, these guys are larger and demand a really good approach, 6.5X Trout Hunter tippet really helped but it did not overcome hitting them on the head. Seems as thought some of the larger guys were moving around to eat the ants, did manage to take a few of them 12-14" colored up and just in great shape. Got to the top of the pool and then zero rising, up the bank and in the car, stopped at the next pull off near the turn and guess what ZERO as was the pool below the top bridge, OK take your stuff off and check Penns below Coburn! Stopped at Burkholder's for a snack and coffee and drove down the creek road from Coburn, saw a ton of small spinners over one riffle, stopped at Stan's bridge and below it on the road side the fish were lined up and eating, could not find any good fish there so I drove to bridge, walked out on the bridge and found trout up everywhere and guess what was on the bridge- #16 Black Flying Ants. I got dressed and walked up stream to get in the water and the next few hours were just magic, when you fish here you need to stay in the water and near the road side because of the nuts that have posted their cabin's land, there are plenty of good trout in this section but they are not easy, fished to the head of the riffle and  was pleased with the results, all browns in really great shape. When you run into an flying ant spinner fall the fish seem to really love to eat them and will travel to take one but they will not tolerate bad casting and poor floats. I do not really like to fish upstream but in both streams it is a necessary evil.
  If you want to tie these guys, a hint is to make the wings not at a 90 degree angle, make if a 45 degree angle and use a medium gray wing material (zelon works well) Blue Ribbon has a great selection of it. When you want to have spinner wings at a rear facing angle you need to tie it in at 90 degrees and really tighten the tying thread building up a small dam ahead of the wings, as you put on the fur or synthetic material make sure you build it up in the front of the wing thereby pushing it back at an angle, (hint) use the same method to make spent caddis wings. Make sure you use head cement on the wind tie in point, I tie a bunch up then glue them all at once, I never have an open bottle of glue of even my hypotipped glue bottle anywhere near when I am tying.