The tips of the deer hair are posted upright around which few turns of hackle are wrapped parachute style. Knowing full well an imitation will never be close to perfect, I named the pattern the Perfect Ant after the tremendous amount of trial and error that went into its design. Fishing an ant pattern is pretty straightforward. Get a good clean drag free drift and the fly will probably be consumed. If the pattern sinks, so much the better.
Ants are terrestrial insects, poorly adapted to being in the water and they drown quickly.
Repeatedly I've watched trout let live ants drift past in the overhead film and key in on those ants that had drowned and were being served at nose level. If your ant doesn't seem to work as well as it should as a dry, bite a piece of split shot on to the leader and fish it like a nymph under an almost taught line.