Do not even think about going on a trout stream without some flying ants with you. This time of year it's time for the ant population to expand and have a good old swarm, the ants need to expand their home and need to find another location to set up shop, that results in a ton of flying ants that get blown or just fall into our streams and our trout just love them. Usually this can occur on a sunny day that follows some short of crap weather but if we do not get that wet day then it might just occur any time. If you have ever been in one of these feeding frenzies and do not have a good winged ant pattern with you, it will be nothing but pure agony- fish up everywhere and none will touch what you have. A good spent winged pattern with off color wings of zelon or any other crinkle yarn will do, black, brown, sizes #16 - #22 will cover the spectrum. You also need to have a few #14-16 red brown abdomen with a black thorax along for good measure. A simple pattern of abdomen- wisps of the correct hackle color, then spent wing covered with thorax color of fur. Fur is the choice here because of the spent wing but you can even dub the wings back to a 45 degree angle and have them look fine. You will find some of the best fish of the season up and eating like little pigs!
Penn's, Elk, Pine, Fishing Creek, Spring Creek and Bald Eagle all have them, so your choices are endless but concentrate on the wooded section not the meadow type sections.
Now is a good time to also just walk and look for the bigger fish and spot where they are, then if it rains a bit go back and target them with a BIG streamer fished downstream.
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