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CDC and Elk Pearl

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Tying with CDC

Duck's arse: Dutch Hans Weilenmann tells the history of the use of CDC feathers in fly tying, covers the different types of feathers and their use and lists both CDC tying tips and a bunch of CDC patterns.
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The CDC & Elk family

Improving the best: Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author - have made variations. This article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.
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Mart´s Bibio

Foam wing: A nice thing about this Bibio is that it's versatile. Play with it, use lighter of heavier hooks, fish it with or without floatant, wrap a thinner or denser hackle, and so on. But make sure you have some Bibios in your flybox spring suddenly is here.
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Brown Spinner

A spider style dry: An old, no-fashion dry fly. The one, that GFF partner Kasper tied right after having learned to tie the Red Tag Palmer and the one, that gave him many of his first dry fly experiences some twenty years ago, when it all started for him together with his grandfather.
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The CDC & Elk family

Improving the best: Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author - have made variations. This article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.
Meet the family here

CDC and Elk Pearl

Type Dry fly

Originator
Hans Weilenmann

Year of origin
2011

Difficulty
Easy

Materials

Hook Grip 14723BL #14
Thread Benecchi 12/0, tan
Abdomen Flashabou strand, pearl - wrapped flat over bare shank
Thorax and strands CDC feather (Type 1), natural
Wing and head Mule deer

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