Egan's Bionic Ant 2.0

Lance Egan's favorite summer-time fishing is floating rivers and casting ants to bank-hugging trout. For years he overlooked ants — fishing cicadas in early summer and hoppers late — but once he learned how reliable ants are as a summer food, they became his go-to dry fly for non-hatch periods. The trick with the Bionic is *size*: where most tiers fish size 16 and smaller, Lance fishes size 10 and 12 ants. Combined with a buoyant foam body, white-foam top, Trigger Point wing for visibility, and a Coachman-brown center hackle, the Bionic Ant 2.0 is the rare dry that is buoyant, easy to see, and fish-approved.