Friday Night Flies - Captain Hargett Scud

Scuds can live in a wide variety of rivers and lakes, but their best habitat is clean, cold, unpolluted waters. They’re often found fairly shallow, and in and around weeds, but they’ll also live in both rocky riffles and slower, silt-bottomed areas. Sometimes, trout get tunnel vision and target a very specific emerging insect or other food source. But any time you don’t see obvious, easy-to-read activity, the fish are likely feeding opportunistically and that makes scuds a viable option