Mike, Thanks for the suggestion! I tend to concentrate on the slow water section (sight fishing with minutia and then throwing big streamers) and I have not found a confidence scud pattern yet. My seining on Sunday revealed only one pale yellow/orange sickly/dying gammarus among 100+ scuds seined (I was pretty actively seining the weeds at the margins - so no idea what the free drifting population ratio would have been.) I have been trying to hit the "native" color scheme on the nose, but I guess I should get the dubbing mixer out and go for that sickly yellow tan effect... The fish were having nothing to do twith the natural colors. My friend hit 2 on pink, but when I sight fished with pink the reaction (no looks, pauses or course corrections) did not lend me much confidence that it was what they were looking for.
Thanks again and tight lines, Andy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 9:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: killer scud pattern? Andy, A light yellow baggy shrimp has been my best scud pattern down there. Make sure it is weighted as I have found that they really key into the proximity to the bottom. If the fly is too high in the water column they will snub it. If it is bouncing along the rocks and will come to rest on the bottom in current they well usually grab it. Yellow is about all I fish down there but others report that tan, green and orange work well too. Mike
