Fly of the Month: Transparants

OK, the dog days of summer have come and gone — evenings might even be leaning toward brisk where you fish — and the secret hopper pattern isn’t producing. But water temps won’t drop enough to produce a consistent BWO hatch for another few weeks. What now?
How about an ant pattern? This week Joe Grobarek provides our first weekly Fly of the Month installment with his look at Transparants. As Joe notes, ant patterns are a great choice among terrestrial flies, and they can produce surprising results when nothing else will.