Nymph
Nymph
Scud
Freshwater shrimp — the staple food of tailwater trout, and the reason they grow so fast.
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- Hook size
- 16
- Imitates
- Scud
- Best water
- Spring Creek, Stillwater, Tailwater
Choose a colour Size 16 · Gray · 12 pack · $19.99
- Pack
- 12 flies
Fishes for
Brown TroutRainbow Trout
How to fish it
Fishing notes
Fish it deep and slow along weed beds and drop-off edges. A small twitch imitates the scud’s darting swim and often draws the take. Orange is worth a swap after a flow change, when dead scuds wash out of the weed.
About this fly
Freshwater shrimp — the staple food of tailwater trout, and the reason they grow so fast.
Scuds are amphipods, they breed year-round in weedy tailwaters and spring creeks, and they are the single largest component of the diet of trout in that water. A tailwater rainbow that is heavy in the shoulders got that way eating scuds.
Grey is the living natural, orange is a dead or gravid scud (which trout target specifically), and silver adds flash for stained or deep water. Size 16.
Key features
- Imitates the amphipod scud, the primary food of tailwater trout
- Available all year — scuds do not hatch, so they are always present
- Grey for living naturals, orange for dead or gravid scuds
- Silver adds visibility for deep or stained water
- Size 16 fishes deep on a standard two-nymph rig
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