[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"learn-glossary-mop-fly":3,"learn-term-cards-mop-fly":49},{"id":4,"title":5,"aliases":6,"body":10,"category":27,"definitionShort":28,"description":16,"disciplineTags":29,"extension":30,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"path":33,"relatedCards":34,"relatedTerms":38,"seo":45,"sourceRef":46,"stem":47,"term":5,"__hash__":48},"learn_glossary\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmop-fly.md","Mop Fly",[7,8,9],"mop","junk fly","cranefly larva fly",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":23},"minimark",[13,17,20],[14,15,16],"p",{},"The Mop Fly is exactly what it sounds like: one strand cut from a car-wash mitt or microfiber mop, lashed to a hook behind a bead. It imitates nothing in particular. The fat, segmented body reads as a cranefly larva or a grub, and the material breathes and wiggles in the current the way a real soft-bodied bug does. Anglers argue about whether it counts as \"real\" fly tying; trout do not.",[14,18,19],{},"Tie it on hooks 8-12 in yellow, olive, tan, or pink. Yellow and tan lean toward the cranefly-larva look; pink is pure attractor. A tungsten bead gets it down.",[14,21,22],{},"This is a searching pattern for tougher water - run it when flow is normal to high and the water is stained, off-color, or muddy, in temps from the upper 30s to the mid-60s. Fish it dead-drift under an indicator or on a Euro rig, ticking bottom. It works best as the heavy point fly with a smaller nymph on a dropper above: the mop gets you down and grabs attention, the dropper gets the finesse eats.",{"title":24,"searchDepth":25,"depth":25,"links":26},"",2,[],"fly","A chunky junk fly tied from a strand of microfiber mop chenille. It imitates nothing exactly but reads as a fat cranefly larva or grub. Fished as a nymph in stained, pushy water where trout eat on profile and movement.",[27],"md",{},true,"\u002Flearn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmop-fly",[35,36,37],"the-dead-drift","tying-on-a-dropper-rig","euro-nymphing-101",[39,40,41,42,43,44],"nymph","san-juan-worm","squirmy-wormy","walts-worm","dropper","indicator",{"description":16},"fly:mop-fly","learn\u002Fglossary\u002Fmop-fly","qdknOKRiOSrEKV1EyFrQxemUL0OEq4tzYgfXvgqGYLE",[]]