Favorite Scud Pattern?

George Cleveland wrote: "Padishar Creel" wrote:


Mind sharing your favorite scud pattern for slow moving shallow river 4'-9'
use?

No secret here. Olive or gray Hare's Ear Plus (Antron/Hare's Ear)
wrapped over a #12-#16 scud or wet fly hook. A few wraps of lead wire
for weight under that and a shellback of poly bag material ribbed with
either extra fine copper wire or brown tying thread pulled over the
top. I also tie a pink version with ribbing of flourescent pink tying
thread. I use a piece of velcro to fuzz up the body.

Chris, that pattern is pretty much all I use on the Crooked, which as
you probably know is a big scud factory. Orange is a good color too.

This is the look:

http://www.danica.com/flytier/tmodic/scud.htm

You'll see some patterns with little tails and antennae, like here

http://www.westfly.com/patterns/wet/scud.shtml

but I've never found that these make the pattern more effective.

BTW, don't waste any money on the shellback materials you see in fly
shops; little strips cut from plastic sandwich bags work just fine.

JR