The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
The Best Anglers Never Stop Learning
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Easy - 3-5 Min
Coldwater
The sow scud dubbing on this bug is pretty much irreplaceable. That line of products has very specific color mixtures that are perfect for scuds and sow bug, hence the name. This is another one of those patterns that is best tied mostly the way the recipe is originally written, and with only three materials, besides the hook and thread, it is fairly easy to stay true to it.
Back: Scud Back in a similar color can be a solid stand in for the Thin Skin on this pattern.
Sow scud dubbing comes in a wide variety of colors, as does thin skin. This makes it easy to tie up bugs for specific locations, and trips. Some popular colors schemes besides the one shown in the video are grey and tan. Although, scuds do come in many sizes and colors, so the sky really is the limit when your focusing on these guys at the vise.
Besides having an easy to come by material list, and being extremely simple to tie, this bug has lots of other great attributes. A few of those attributes being extremely realistic shape, and segmentation. Those two things are often enough to seal the deal for an eat, but if the fish get picky the thin skin back can do some serious convincing as well. A scud may not be the first thing that you tie on your rig, but it can come around to save the day when nothing else is working. For that reason, it’s always important to keep a few around.
Fish this fly deeper down on a nymph rig whether you’re on the river, or on a stillwater. Scuds are a trout food staple in almost any watershed, and water type, so this bug is bound to it’s fair share of attention. There will definitely need to be some heavier flies, or split shot on the rig to get this fly down to where it needs to be. The Simple Scud doesn’t carry much weight of it’s own.
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