The French fly tier Marc Petitjean has designed the system to get the body of a fly using a CDC hackle.
Not all of CDC hackles are suitable for the purpose, are usable only those that have the fibers that reach the tips of hackles.
This condition allows you to tie on the hook the tips of the hackl View more...The French fly tier Marc Petitjean has designed the system to get the body of a fly using a CDC hackle.
Not all of CDC hackles are suitable for the purpose, are usable only those that have the fibers that reach the tips of hackles.
This condition allows you to tie on the hook the tips of the hackles along with the tips of their fibers and then wrap hackles around the shank of the hook.
When the fibers are shorter is difficult to obtain bodies good workmanship.
Wanting to tie this type of bodies and not having CDC hackles with long fibers, I thought to wet the hackles to adhere the fibers to the stem of the hackles.
In that way I was able to get bodies discrete of invoice.
With this kind of body I tie the body of Caddis emerger that derives from the tying concept of my fly pattern R Nymph.
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List of materials
Hook: Grub size 12/14
Thread: Brown 8/0
Body: A CDC hackle
Chest: CDC dubbing
Legs: Partridge fibers
Wings and insect's shuck: A CDC hackle
Antennas: Two pheasant fibers.
Steps
Step 1
I take a hackle, I move the fibers of the tip along the quill and tie it on a hook grub.
Step 2
I cut the excess hackle.
Step 3
I shift the fibers at the point where I tied the hackle on the hook.
Step 4
I lift the fibers with a few laps by thread.
Step 5
I take a CDC hackle
Step 6
Wet the CDC hackle and tie it on the bend of the hook.
Step 7
I wrap the hackle around the hook, tie it and cut the excess.
Step 8
I make a CDC dubbing loop
Step 9
I form the chest of the caddis with dubbing loop.
Step 10
I tie a partridge feather close to the chest.
Step 11
I wrap the feather around the hook, tie it and cut the excess.
Step 12
I form a loop with the CDC hackle over the chest and cut the hackle excess.
Step 13
I shorten the wings with scissors and cut fiber that come out from the body
Step 14
I tie the antennas and cut surplus
Step 15
I tie the head of the caddis.
