[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-lightning-bug":3,"learn-term-cards-lightning-bug":48},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":9,"category":26,"definitionShort":27,"description":15,"disciplineTags":28,"extension":29,"meta":30,"navigation":31,"path":32,"relatedCards":33,"relatedTerms":37,"seo":44,"sourceRef":45,"stem":46,"term":5,"__hash__":47},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Flightning-bug.md","Lightning Bug",[7,8],"lightning bug nymph","the lightning bug",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":22},"minimark",[12,16,19],[13,14,15],"p",{},"The Lightning Bug is pure flash. The body is wrapped tinsel or pearlescent Flashabou under a thin ribbing, topped with a bead and usually a peacock or dark thorax. There's no mayfly or caddis it's copying - it reads as a generic flashy nymph, which is exactly the point. When trout aren't keyed on a hatch, the shine gets them to commit.",[13,17,18],{},"Tie it in sizes 14-20. Silver is the all-around default and shines in clear water and bright light; gold runs a touch warmer and earns its keep in stained or tannic flows. Both work best when water temps sit in the 42-60F window, which covers most of the trout season outside high summer.",[13,20,21],{},"Fish it dead-drift like any nymph - under an indicator or as the dropper below a heavier point fly on a tight-line rig. It works as a searching pattern in normal flows: put it through riffles, runs, and the heads of pools where fish hold in the current and pick off drifting food. Use the flashier silver in clear water; drop to gold when the river carries color.",{"title":23,"searchDepth":24,"depth":24,"links":25},"",2,[],"fly","A flashy attractor nymph with a tinsel or Flashabou body and a tungsten or brass bead, in silver or gold. It imitates nothing specific - it just throws light and pulls trout out of clear-to-stained water.",[26],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Flightning-bug",[34,35,36],"euro-nymphing-101","the-dead-drift","tying-on-a-dropper-rig",[38,39,40,41,42,43],"nymph","dead-drift","pheasant-tail","copper-john","rainbow-warrior","zebra-midge",{"description":15},"fly:lightning-bug","learn\u002Fglossary\u002Flightning-bug","iPBSK0-HItfzM2joQ06qQJ97DKlrKviLaEY1v84st3Y",[]]