Gusty winds yesterday so I stuck around the house and tied about six dozen of these little guys. If necessity is the mother of all in invention, I would have to say laziness is the father of all innovation. I can't stand tying the 'real' lightening bugs with pheasant tail legs and tail, and the true pheasant tail is just a pain in the ass so I came up with a kind of cross between those and a rainbow warrior that's only a few steps and takes less then two minutes to tie. You can tie it in a variety of colors and sizes for whatever is happening on the river to emulate anything from midges to mayflies and caddis. I tie them in pink, rainbow, tan, olive, green ice, orange and with a really cool leggy looking dubbing I'm going to keep as a secret. I use pearl tinsel so whatever color of thread you're using shows throw effecting the color. The tail is also a special kind of kinky colored mono called supreme hair, which is way easier and faster than anything else I've used. Since I've been fishing these for the past few years and whenever someone asks what I'm getting them on, all I can say is this lightning bug looking thing, I'm going to start calling it the mother of peal or MOP.
The rainbow MOP was mopping them up the past couple times out, which is cool because it would suck to spend hours tying something hoping it will work and it doesn't.
Keep 'em where they live...
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