Early to bed, early to rise. Fish all day and tell big lies
I don't like CDC feathers too much because they easily get mucked up too much. I will not say the same for CDC puffs which are denser and less fragile. But I still didn't like the "look" of the finished fly and that's because I was tying in the "CDC WAY" - a straight up and down post. So I started to experiment a bit.
The photo on the left is the first step. Take a size 20 curved emerger hook and place it in the vise.
Wrap 12/0 thread from the curve to the beginning of the shank and then tie in a cdc puff so that the stem almost reaches the hook eye.
Then pull those loose ends up and back over the fly and with a little luck you will have created the perfect dry fly dun profile as seen in the last photo.
Using the whole cdc puff adds a lot of floatability to this fly and visibility is second to none.
If all you have is very light colored puffs (not exactly a BWO shade) you can mark up the fly with the appropriate color with a sharpie. It will not hurt the floatability.
I neat little fly that looks like a Mayfly!!!!
5 comments:
Nice little fly. This like a small version of the "IOBO Humpy - tied by Hans Weilenmann".
GSmith,
It does have a bit of the "humpy" in it doesn't it!
Ken
Reminds me of the IOBO Humpy too. So effective "it oughtta be outlawed" thus the name according to Hans. Great fly.
Sam and GSmith,
It is very close to the IOBO humpy emerger EXCEPT that the it's made of cdc puffs and that the puff is folded back to look like the wing of an emerging dun that's trying bust through the surface tension.
Ken
Nice tie Ken, this looks like it would work well for picky sippers. I'm really a big fan of flies that can represent multiple things and this seems like another one of those patterns, on the Swift we have very small midges but other streams and ponds have much larger down to 18 even 16s and I think this pattern could also represent midges like this or even caddis. I'll have to get back into some cdc, I used to tie a lot of loop wing emerger and F fly style mayflies, I used to do very well with the sulphurs with a size 18 cdc wing swept back and a pheasant tail body, this has outfished any yellow or cream colored sulphurs for me on the Swift by far.
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