real cdc

[lightenup]

Question for the pro tyers. It was my understanding that the CDC is what did the floating. Why hackle the fly if you are using CDC?

Because it looked pretty....I find cdc gets wet quickly in rapids and riffles and then is hard to dry. The Hackle.may help it stay floating in rougher water. Maybe, perhaps, ask a pro, not me

 

[lightenup]

Here is another one. A loop winger
bwo olive emerger size 18.

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

How about you retake that picture with a dark/black background so we can actually see it.

 

[lightenup]

Question for the pro tyers. It was my understanding that the CDC is what did the floating. Why hackle the fly if you are using CDC?

Click on the picture and zoom in close....

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Listen, I'm just trying to help a brother with his photo setups. Davie would never post a shot with spools of like color thread to fly color in the background of the shot.
Unless you did it intentionally to hide any defects...

 

[greg s]

Have to help my real cdc brother out here. We like to hackle flies because the feathers are very cool. But sometimes you don't need them.

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

your two nimrods are incorrigible...

 

[lightenup]

Happy now....Boobs?

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

I can sleep tonight...

 

[greg s]

egg laying cdc grannom with cdc body and underwing, some teal flank legs, a little bit of short deer hair overwing and a black head

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Suggestion. In lieu of the teal, wrap a collar of CDC behind the head. The CDC will give you much better movement.

 

[greg s]

I agree with that, I just can't let go of the teal legs because I shot the teal. But next on the list is a caddis pupa like you have described that has worked well for me. Now let's see something from you there Finite, I know you can do this. I'm a disciple of the hack job school of fly tying, so if I can post a picture with a straight face, you can too.

 

[lightenup]

Do it Finite, dont be a girly man...

 

[greg s]

He's a lumberjack and he's OK..........

 

[lightenup]

I cut down trees, I eat my lunch
I go to the lavatory
On Wednesdays I go shoppin'
And have buttered scones for tea

On Tuesdays, I tie flies....

 

[lightenup]

Here is a Sulphur emerger. GregS cdc is the first wi g, second is a white cdc puff...but not "the real stuff"...it's just from the local fly shop.

 

[lightenup]

Another way to use the cdc...a cdc comparadun, sort of I guess?

 

[greg s]

Those are some nice looking flies there Lightenup. A great looking sulfur and I really like the quill body on #2. Need a snow goose for the white stuff.....How about a Hendrickson emerger?

 

[greg s]

The pupa with the cdc legs for Finite

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

That's a trout getter.

 

[greg s]

Any fly with peacock and muskrat is a trout getter!

 

[lightenup]

My addition to the He.drickson family
A red quilt with a "real stuff" cdc wing...antron rear end, stripped rooster hackle red quills and some slf dubbing.

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Shouldn't you be slinging Mcmuffins this time of day?

 

[lightenup]

Here is one for Finite. It's got hackle and cdc, won't ever sink, I'm calling it the Titanic. A sulphur...

 

[lightenup]

Finite, I quit that job, now I sling Tacos with my wife in a store and in our taco trailer. I'd say the name but I don't want to upset Cabarle and get free advertising to 6 people.

 

[FIN-ITE 34]

Well at least you won't get pinched for using the advert "Taco Tuesday" anymore.

 

[greg s]

Nice work LU. You keep this up and i might send you some more cool feathers. I'm a fan of the cdc wing on a hackle fly, I think they work as well as anything else.

 

[lightenup]

Send me you address, I will tie some of those smoke jumper midges for the sbr for you. I have had stubborn fish eat them when they wouldn't eat anything else.

 

[greg s]

I'll accept that offer. We will catch many, many fish this year. And very large ones no doubt.

 

[lightenup]

Shipping out tomorrow Gregs...