A bass bug is a weird creature, resembling nothing that creeps or flies, but it certainly gets results.
Nothing is more emblematic of warmwater fly fishing than the bass bug.
Small or large, colorful or drab, natural or synthetic, it is safe to say that every warmwater fly fisher has an assortment of these creations close at hand. They have been a part of the warmwater arsenal for so long that their true origin is unknown. Bass bugs are to dry flies as beer is to champagne. Their shear effectiveness tends to overshadow their intrinsic merit. Nobody knows when the bass bug came into being.