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Crustaceans & Their Imitations - Comments
"Sowbugs" are crawlers not poor swimmers ... I suggest you look at one. Scuds swim erratically because they swim backwards with their tail ... I suggest you watch one. You never see a live yellow-orange (molting) scud in the water column ... I suggest you dig in the pea-gravel for one. Scuds turn tan after the molt when they leave the pea-gravel, then olive or red-brown, then dark olive or chocolate just before they molt again. The lighter color phase is always preferred by trout ... it digest easier.In the Sacramento River (a tidal river), during the falling tide, scuds that are trapped in the shallows, die, then are baked red-orange by the sun. As the tide rise in the afternoon, the red-orange scud hatch is a fly fishing blitz.I can see in the picture why your indicator is scaring the trout ... it scared me. I suggest using white picture mounting tape. The standard size is cut twice as long and twice as wide as the weighted sowbug or scud and folded on the tippet length-wise. Cut the indicator smaller if you want more sensitivity. Never use the butterfly wing indicators, they wind spin and the twists weaken your tippet."Yea of little faith." If you are using your sowbug or scud as an attractor and dropping a midge larva or mayfly nymph under it ... I suggest you replace the sowbug or scud with a prince or telico nymph, both of these are better attractors. However, Charlie Brooks states in his book, "Nymphing for Larger Trout", that if sowbugs and/or scuds are in your stream they will occupy 75% of the trouts diet.I suggest using an oblong indicator and hooking the bug downstream of the indicator on an upstream cast and Dead-Drift. Mr. Dorsey, when you find the correct answer as to why I suggest this, you will have began your education on sowbugs and scuds."Mr. Sowbug", Fox StatlerP.S.Even though I am called Mr. Sowbug, I use the scud more. It is for you to find out why.
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"Sowbugs" are crawlers not poor swimmers ... I suggest you look at one. Scuds swim erratically because they swim backwards with their tail ... I suggest you watch one. You never see a live yellow-orange (molting) scud in the water column ... I suggest you dig in the pea-gravel for one. Scuds turn tan after the molt when they leave the pea-gravel, then olive or red-brown, then dark olive or chocolate just before they molt again. The lighter color phase is always preferred by trout ... it digest easier.In the Sacramento River (a tidal river), during the falling tide, scuds that are trapped in the shallows, die, then are baked red-orange by the sun. As the tide rise in the afternoon, the red-orange scud hatch is a fly fishing blitz.I can see in the picture why your indicator is scaring the trout ... it scared me. I suggest using white picture mounting tape. The standard size is cut twice as long and twice as wide as the weighted sowbug or scud and folded on the tippet length-wise. Cut the indicator smaller if you want more sensitivity. Never use the butterfly wing indicators, they wind spin and the twists weaken your tippet."Yea of little faith." If you are using your sowbug or scud as an attractor and dropping a midge larva or mayfly nymph under it ... I suggest you replace the sowbug or scud with a prince or telico nymph, both of these are better attractors. However, Charlie Brooks states in his book, "Nymphing for Larger Trout", that if sowbugs and/or scuds are in your stream they will occupy 75% of the trouts diet.I suggest using an oblong indicator and hooking the bug downstream of the indicator on an upstream cast and Dead-Drift. Mr. Dorsey, when you find the correct answer as to why I suggest this, you will have began your education on sowbugs and scuds."Mr. Sowbug", Fox StatlerP.S.Even though I am called Mr. Sowbug, I use the scud more. It is for you to find out why.
What regionally parochial nonsense! Crayfish are extremely important prey in much of the country, for trout, bass, and other fly-fished species.