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TERRESTRIALS

Skeus in his classic book Silk, Fur and Feather, calls terrestrials "casualty flies." Dame Juliana describes imitations of a moth and a wasp in her A Treatise on Fishing with a Hook published just four years after Columbus discovered America. Clearly, critters that hardly swim ring the lunch bell for fish even when there's no hatch.

Ant, Parachute The parachute post is closed cell foam to insure a buoyant if water logged fly. It can represent other non-terrestrial insects so it is a good choice for a general searching pattern.

Black Fur Ant -- A good choice in timber country any time. Look for rotten logs on the bank that might hold these.

Flying Black Ant -- Spring ant queens soar on nuptial flights so only the strongest drones impregnate queens who form new colonies. Then the drones die to provide meals for trout that don't mind formic acid on the menu.

Black Foam Beetle -- Foam floats well and beetles get blown into the water often -- a particularly good choice for Rocky Mountain states and, of course, panfish.

Dave's Hopper -- Another good Dave Whitlock fly that, like the Muddler Hopper, grew out of Joe's Hoppers that were popularized, but not invented, by Joe Brooks. Fads in grasshopper imitations come and go. Dave's Hopper stays. Start the season with small ones use bigger hoppers as they grow during summer.

Parachute Hopper --Light on the water, nicely floating and the choice of the few who insist on "parachute everything." Besides, it's easy to see with the peg wing at dusk.

Madame-X -- Sink it with a split shot as a sculpin or fish it wet or dry as a grasshopper!

no image Wasp --

McGinty Bee -- Bees and Yellow Jackets fall into the water often. Here's a classic imitation.

no image San Juan Worm, Tan -- Jim Aubrey used a lake shrimp pattern in New Mexico's San Juan River and, with Bob Pelzl and Gary Borger determined that these are really aquatic earthworms -- "Who says fly flingers can't fish worms?" They work for terrestrial worms during rainy water and for marine worms at times.

San Juan Worm, Red --. A simple but surprisingly effective pattern. It
imitates the tubiflex worm found in most North American streams.

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