Black Ant
Terrestrial
Tied By Christian Andrews
Hook: #18 straight shank dry
Thread: black
Body Parts: tag, tail, body, front hackle, wings, head
Materials: gold, ostrich herl (in a tuft before the tag), black thread, black, sized to hook, black hackle tips, claret thread
Notes:
This is a fly tied off the illustration in Favorite Flies and Their Histories (1892) by Mary Orvis Marbury. Ingredients are best guesses and approximations in an attempt to imitate the illustration. Someone has suggested using claret thread for the main thread and overlaying the body or using a marker to darken the body thread in an attempt to make the head smaller (by not needing to whip off the black thread and over tie the claret for the head).
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