HUGE scud hatch yesterday

[Phil Lilley]

 

Sorry I didn't post this yesterday.  This had all of us amazed.  All up and down at least the upper lake, scuds were swimming from bank to bank, from bottom to top.  Around the dock they were solid.

This morning there's about 10% of what we saw yesterday around the dock but still swimming at all levels and not just at the dock - out in front of it too.

When the water came on yesterday, of course most got sent down lake but the ones in the pond weeds stayed.  That's where we've been seeing scuds and sow bugs along with small worms.  The weeds are loaded with them - and of course the weeds are thick throughout the lake.  Be interesting to see if they are thick down by Rockaway beach too.  I'd imagine they are.

I've heard stories how the scuds were back in the late 60's and early 70's... this must be like that.  I'm sure this is cyclical but it would be nice if we saw this more often. 

I posted a short video on the resort FB page of sow bugs just laying on the moss bed at the Narrows the other day.  Thousands of them laying out exposed just crawling around.  I need to get up and do another video of underwater feeding.

[Bill Babler]

Cooper Creek access ramp was totally covered with 10's of thousands of them dead on the ramp.  The trout I cleaned yesterday were bulging with scuds and had their mouths and gills simply full of them when you would catch one.  Also totally full of midges and casings. 

[laker67]

Good to see them abundant once again. Myself and several others on here will recall how they use to swim in schools or pods of hundreds back in the 70's. You would see them swimming along the edges of the lake during low water.

[BilletHead]

                 That is just crazy!   Would make a nice screen saver or instead of the fireplace channel around the holidays I want a scud channel!

[fishinwrench]

Wow!   That is crazy cool.  Thicker than the shad in LO.  

So much for Didymo suffocating them to extinction, hu?