Mop fly colors?

[lampern]

Yellow and brown or bright green and black?

Which do you prefer of the two?

 

[Nicodemus]

Yellow.

Green and black to imitate a catwaber worm is good too.

 

[gobbleinwoods]

Yellow is the color for May and June if fishing for trout.

 

[trad bow]

Yellow/brown are colors of the September grasshoppers. All fish will feed on them.
Early spring chartreuse that mimics caterpillars are good along with black/yellow during the Catalpa hatch

 

[Concrete Pete]

Depends on how soon the trout left the stocking truck. If it’s within a week of stocking, white and orange have saved me.

 

[flyrod444]

I really only use one color. It is a light tan tied from mops off a rainx ball made to wipe fog off you windshield. I dub kangaroo fur for the collar next to black bead. Not only is it great for stockers, but I've had clients catch 20" plus wild browns on them a few times as well as a few small mouth bass. Here is a picture of a big brown one off my clients caught on one last year. This was out of a stream that has stock rainbow and wild brown.

 

[NCHillbilly]

What Flyrod 444 said. I don't tie or use them often, but when I do, it's almost always tan with a kind of sparkly black collar of short eztaz chenille. Pink or chartreuse will also work for stockers, especially in dingy water.

 

[fishnpreacher]

I like chartreuse with a peacock herl collar, or natural tan with a dark collar. Yellow is good too, mountain trout like yellow anything

 

[Permitchaser]

Post a picture of one

 

[NCHillbilly]

Post a picture of one

They're a simple pattern, just a chunk of microfiber dust mop tied on a hook with usually a bit of dubbing or some such at the head. They probably look like crane fly larva in natural colors. They still work in neon colors, too, though.

 

[Permitchaser]

What does it look like