cdc improvement?

[col]

whilst tying some cdc flexi olives i thought i had tied the wing in a bit to long so decided to take the scissors to it shaping a olive wing . Ive tank tested it and it does'nt to have lost any of its  bouyancy . One to try next season!
Col

[Wildfisher]

looks OK to me. I have trimmed CDC over  past season and it worked OK

[.D.]

I have trimmed CDC over  past season and it worked OK

I think Fratnik may have beat you to it when he designed the F fly   

As far as I know the standard prescription for an F fly is to trim the wing to size.

Cheers,


.D.

[.D.]

I think it's just one of those things, Col - I think some people don't like the more "severe" look of trimmed CDC - and hence there was a bit of a stigma attached to doing so when the stuff first took off over here. I don't mind it at all - you get a denser ( you catch in more barbs from the bit of the stem you are cutting off) , and more blurry wing, perhaps ironically.


Cheers,

.D.

[.D.]

For your interest.


From the horse's mouth:

" The hackle and wing are combined......................three for size 12 - trimmed to shape"


Marjan Fratnik in The World's Best Trout Flies by John Roberts (ed)

Cheers,

.D.