CDC dry flies

Yellow Tag CDC Sedge is similar made with green butt cdc sedge and works for trout and grayling in the same time. The CDC provides a nice water-print and the long barbs from hackle provide a nice hollow when the fly stay in water film. Like the rest of Peter Durisik flies, the Yellow Tac CDC Sedge can be fished as a diving caddis as well.

I love this fly and I use it all the time when sedge flies are flying in evenings. In Lapland was one of my best sedge for years!

Materials:

• Hook: Maruto D04 #14-16
• Thread: Brown
• Tail: yellow fluo thread
• Body: Squirrel Dubbing natural mixed with squirrel dubbing in olive
• Wing: CDC natural combined with deer hair
• Hackle: CDC combined with Squirrel guard fur

This fly became “a must” sedge for all dry fly fisherman who like to use sedge flies. The green color from the butt part seems to be highly attractive to fish in Summer and Autumn. Rare in Spring but in certain rivers it catches too. I fish it very often in Sweden in June and July and not only as a dry fly but also as a wet fly. I keep it in current until the fly sinks or I force to sink. When the fly comes up ( due to CDC ) the fish strike it with force. It is super fun to fish in this way.

Materials:

• Hook: Maruto D04 Size 14-18
• Body: natural grey cdc in dubbing loop
• Butt: green synthetic dubbing
• Wing: 2 CDC feathers
• Thread : brown or black tying thread

Red Spot CDC Sedge also developed by Peter Durisik, on of the most famous tiers from Slovakia is made for fishing grayling and trout in rivers with high pressure waters. This fly is made it is made very interesting: with tails, which is not specific to these flies. But the fly is very effective, it seems that those tails attract the interest of the fish very well. Those tails probably mimic the transition from a nymph to an adult state. For this reason, I fish this fly as well as a wet fly.

Materials:

• Hook: Maruto D04 #14-16
• Thread: Brown
• Tail: Krystal Flash in any color you like ( white, green, pink works great)
• Hot Spot : red tinsel
• Body: squirrel dubbing natural
• Wing: made of 2 feathers of CDC natural grey
• Hackle: CDC barbs in dubbing loop one or two turns

GRHE CDC dun fly tied by Peter is another great fly for grayling fishing. I discovered this fly fishing together with Peter around 20 years ago when I visited Slovakia and I fished on Vah river. The fly has a fantastic water-print and it is a great searching pattern.

This fly had something special, which I have not seen in other models made in those years: hackle made of fur. I have seen delicate flies in Poland but with a hackle made of one turn of hen or rooster feather, but not of fur. I was surprised by the approach and found it very interesting. Also at Peter’s I saw the combination of fur and cdc, a kind of sandwich hackle. Very interesting and efficient too 🙂

Materials:

• Hook: Maruto D04 #14-16
• Thread: Brown
• Body: made of Super Spike dubbing in natural color
• Tail: Coq de Leon Indio or Pardo but in Rubion color
• Ribbing: Gold tinsel
• Wing: 2 CDC feathers in natural grey or Campbell
• Hackle: Squirrel guard fur fixed in dubbing loop

High rider CDC dun flies are popular in east and central part of Europe because they float extremely well even if they have a delicate body and a sparse wink.

The secret stays in how the CDC is use and fixed, you see that very well in the photo:).

• Hook: Maruto D04 BL #14-16-18
• Thread: Brown Olive
• Tail: Coq de Leon
• Wing: 2 feathers of CDC natural grey or natural khaki campbell

This Sedge tied by my friend Peter Durisik is made with hot spot in wing part. It is not very common to see flies tied like this one. Usually a hot spot has the role of attracting the fish. But in this case it has the role of helping the fisherman to see the flies better. Of course it is a very useful thing for us who use eyeglasses 🙂

Materials:

• Hook: Maruto D04 BL #14-16
• Thread: Brown
• Body: Pure Squirrel dubbing natural pine
• Hackle: CDC natural grey mixed with guard fur from Pine/Red Belly Squirrel
• Hot Spot : orange thread

I certainly love dry fly fishing and Danica insects are the Queens :). At the end of May and in June this fly starts hatching and is better to be prepared with a few nice Danica imitations. Having a few of them in your box is not bad at all, sometimes they will save your days when nice trout eat them

Of course tying Danica is not simple but not complicated too. I found very fun and challenging in the same time. They are huge insects and making good imitations is not simple because you have to find the perfect balance between materials, fly waterprint and aerodynamics. Big flies tied with lots of hackle are twisting your leader during casting time. Then they should be presented nicely , no splash, no noise. Floating should be perfect too, like a ballerina during dancing on the stage!

So here is one of my versions, this time made with the new TroutLine Synthetic Nymph Skin in size small. Yes, the material was developed for nymphs but it works for all kind of bodies including dry flies.

Recipe:

# Hook: size #14 Daiichi anatomic shape
# Body: Troutline Nymph Skin small – mayfly yellow
# Tail: pheasant tail in natural brown
# Under Wing and Wing: Troutline Yellow CDC
# Thorax : made of yellow Mad Rabbit Dubbing
# Hackle : made of teal duck dyed ginger 

Hook: Ahrex Dry fly hook

Thread: Rusty red

Body: Peacock Quill dyed red

Wing: CDC Khaki Campbell

It is a simple and effective cdc fly tied in the purist and classic way. This pattern is popular all over in Europe and is used from early Spring till late in Autumns and early Winter time. It will catch trout and grayling in a second. The only problem is the body fragility, the quill is sensitive to trout teeth. Any tier can coat the body with uv resin or head cement to increase the durability

Pale Olive CDC Dun dry fly is used early in the morning or late in the day. This model has a subtle light olive and tied on small hooks like #16 and 18 is absolutely deadly.

I love to make this fly using biot due to special texture and shade of this natural material. I never found this color in shops and I tried to make it for TrouLine shop but I never succeeded to make it in large quantity. The material is dyed using cold dye and is difficult to obtain in my favorite color.

Anyway a light olive color seems to be super effective on this type of fly and on trout works fabulous.

Materials used:

• Barbless hook in size #16-18 and sometimes #14 seems to be ok ( especially on high waters )
• Thread: white or pale olive
• Body: pale light olive – biot
• Tail: red rooster barbs or Coq de Leon Rubion
• Thorax: Mad Rabbit Dubbing in natural color
• Wing: 2 feathers of CDC in Khaki Campbell