Scud Hunt

[Guest flyfishBDS]

Gday,

interesting task for the fly fishers. Ive done a little under rock sampling ove the past few months.

Can't find any live scuds just dead shells. Lots of sowbuigs instead

Now I want to enlist a few more "lookers" to try and get some idea of what is going on in the tailwater.

Spend 5 mins out of your fishing day digging under rocks, anywhere on Beaver.

Let me know the results.

If your a newcomer to these invertebrates sowbugs look like a terrestrial slater (rolypoly) scuds arwe a freshwater shrimp.

Also interested to know colors and sizes of scud.

If we get a few surveys in I'll have more info to question AGFC.

Also anyone know why scuds would vanish while sowbugs flourish? water quality? etc

Cheers

Steve