Weird Bug Question...

Oldredbarn	April 20th, 2010, 12:01 pm
Novi, MI Posts: 2608	I was fishing a pond yesterday over sad, sad, stockies in my float tube. I love the midge fishing on this pond and seldom get a chance to fish still waters. Anyway...I noticed, as I was watching for the hatching bugs, that there were a number of little spiders on the water. At one point I felt a small bite on my neck and there was one of these spiders. My question is, can spiders actually use the surface tension of a pond to stay above the water and is this a hunting technique that they employ? The pond had midges emerging all over it and there seemed way too many spiders on the water to be an accident...It wasn't that windy. Spence
	"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively "Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood

Wiflyfisher	April 20th, 2010, 12:15 pm
Wisconsin Posts: 663	Spence, a lot of insects, like water striders, spiders, ants, etc. can use the surface tension to walk or run across the surface.. I have even seen large dock spiders running on the surface.
	John S. https://WiFlyFisher.com

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