Mystery fly - CDC dry

[herefishy]

Thought maybe you folks might be able to tell me how to replicate a fly that a guy gave me last summer. It was CDC wrapped around the hook and that's all. It worked well, but he left before I could ask him why mine didn't quite look the same. Maybe I used the wrong type of CDC? Don't think it was the "puff", as the filaments looked longer, but I couldn't find a feather that had enough filaments without the stem getting involved. Anybody use something like this?

[Bamboozle]

Could he have used this in a dubbing loop?

http://www.trouthunt.com/estore/details/2214

[herefishy]

Thanks, Bamboozle, I hadn't thought of that, will try it and report.

[Wes]

wrapped like a fuzz ball (normal dub) or with fibers hanging out?

[JohnScott]

... follow the link. Might be what you are looking for.

http://www.petitjean.ch/eng/MagicTool/default.asp

Go to the section "Various patterns" for an all CDC Caddis. Click on the pic for a slideshow of the tying sequence.

John

[herefishy]

That's it, John, and incidentallly, it was on the Bitterroot I met the guy, and the fly worked great - you might want to try it. Thanks a bunch.

[Skip48]

One other thing you may know or not, is even Hareline sells two different CDC feathers not counting the puffs. One of them uses goose and has longer fibers. If I am telling you what you already know then just forget I mentioned it, LOL! Oh the larger ones were Marc Petitjean packs.

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