Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
wbuffetjr, those look like some huge very active scuds! I'd love to have a couple hundred thousand of those in my pond! Maybe this spring at ice out you can find a way to net those and I'd be happy to try them and reimburse you!

I don't know how they harvest but I suspect sweeping shallow areas with vegetation with a wide fine mesh net. Perhaps they cut out the ice in the shallow waters? Perhaps scuds congregate in 'warmer' waters in shallows in winter?


Canyon - at my place there would have to be some way to trap them. I have netted a ton of them and my kids have probably netted enough to stock your lake!! Sorting thru all the material to pick them out is a major pia. Unfortunately, until I permanently live in CO, being there at ice out just doesn't happen. Hopefully in the not too distant future that will change and I would happily send you some!

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