Pattern Developed by: Robert Bryan McCorqudale, Sebring, FL

Hook: #8 Mustad 9672 or equivalent wet-fly style Thread: Black 6/0
Bead-head: Gold 4mm (optional but recommended)
Body: Yellow chartreuse or neon yellow yarn abdomen for the rear 1/2 of the shank. Red yarn thorax for the middle 1/4 of the shank. Black yarn back-strap over abdomen and thorax.
Head: Tapered black yarn for the front 1/4 of the shank.
Legs: Tie in three tan rubber legs in front of the thorax on one side of shank with the rear ends extending just beyond the hook bend. Bring the other end of the three rubber legs over the shank to the other side of the hook and tie off. Cut these three legs to match the other three just beyond the hook bend. There should be a total of six legs with three on either side of the hook shank. Color black bands or. stripes on the legs with a waterproof magic marker. The wraps of the black yarn head over the front of the legs tie in point should hold the legs closer to the hook shank and limit leg flaring.

Comments: I like to use a two-string twisted yarn strand to get a full body and head or take many more wraps with an individual yarn string. I have tried thinner bodies and heads using individual yarn strings but the fuller body and head seems to have a better response from the bream. I prefer a bead-head to get the fly down quickly. The rubber legs are taken from the elastic core of a bungee cord.

This subsurface attractor fly is a yarn or Aztec version of the Hum Bug. There may be another fly that has the same name but I call it a Dixie Bug because it has the color

shades of the commercially produced and successful surface bream popper called the Dixie Devil. I wanted a subsurface bream fly that had the same color shades as the Dixie Devil and I wanted it to be an attractor bug so I came up with a different material and different color shades but the fly is tied the same way as the original chenille Hum Bug. I have had days when this is the only fly that the bream would take and it has accounted for a lot of Florida bream. I use it mostly in dark water.

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