About this product
Almost every fish in fresh water eats insects at some point, and in still water at dusk they eat them off the surface. A floating soft plastic ant does something no other lure quite manages: it lies in the surface film, half in and half out, exactly as a real insect that has fallen in and cannot get out. Everything else you might cast either sinks or sits on top of the water rather than in it.
It is fished slowly and mostly not at all. Cast it near cover – overhanging branches, weed edges, lily pads – and leave it. Give it the occasional tiny twitch so the legs move, then leave it again. The take usually comes during a pause, and it is often a slow, deliberate sip rather than a slash.
At 5.6 cm it is big enough to cast on light tackle without needing added weight – rig it on a light wide-gap hook with no weight at all, which is what keeps it floating.
Swamp green is deliberately muted. This is a lure meant to look like a real insect rather than to attract attention, and a natural colour is the right choice for it.
In Tanzania this is an inland lure – bass, tilapia and perch in the still, weedy margins of lakes, dams and rivers, particularly in the last hour of light.
CRONY Insect General Floating Ant 5.6 cm - Swamp Green, 10 Pack