The Kemp Bug is an "old-school" great all-around streamer style attractor pattern. It is said that the well-known Zug Bug was based on this pattern.

Imitation • Attractor

When to use • Year-round

Where • Most rivers and streams

How to fish • Fish with either floating or sinking line and strip the fly to impart action.

Hook • TMC 9395 #8

Thread • UTC 70 Denier Black

Underbody • .20 Non-lead wire

Tail • 5 strands of peacock herl

Body • 5 strands of peacock herl

Ribbing • Copper wire

Wing • 2 grizzly hackle feathers

Collar • Brown oversized hackle

Bead • 5/32-inch Tungsten in Fl. Pink.

Tying Instructions

Attach the bead to the hook.

Tie the thread in at the thorax area.

Attach and wrap the non-lead wire behind the bead with three wraps.

Wrap the thread down to the hook point and attach the peacock herl strands and the copper wire.

Make sure to leave the peacock herl strands to form a tail off the back of the fly.

Wrapping the wire and the herl together, create the body up to the thorax behind the bead.

Cut off the excess wire but leave the herl strands alone for now.

Tie in the two grizzly hackle feathers for the wing, extending back to the end of the herl strand tail.

Attach the brown hackle and apply two wraps over the tie-in point of the wings.

Stroke the hackle fibers back and apply one more wrap with the herl strands in front of the hackle.

Tie off and clip any excess herl strands.

Whip finish.

Curtis Fry lives in Orem and ties flies "for pure necessity and as a creative outlet. I don't fool myself into thinking it is a cheaper alternative to buying flies. It's an addiction I am forced to abide." —

Online See how to tie the fly

O Curtis Fry provides a tutorial at YouTube.

› www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9H5EdWvBw

More videos • youtube.com/user/frycdf