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Continuing with CDC and the French angling author Dr. Jean Paul Pequegnot's famous pattern the Assassine.
The "standard" pattern is tied with a Partridge hackle at the head and a dun cock hackle palmer. Pequegnot was of course familiar with CDC being not far from the Jura and so uses it as the front hackle for particularly challenging fish. He prefers to use the partridge version most reserving the cdc one for those tough situations.
His book is first published in 1975 so was not the first book to talk about CDC which was Jules Rindlisbacher's Der Praktische Fliegenfischer published in 1970, but clearly he was aware of it long before that.
Enjoy!
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