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See the complete Puffball serie on Hans
Weilenmann site: http://www.danica.com/flytier/index.html
5 steps to tie a black ant with one Puff CDC feather |
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Buzzer: This suspender is tied
with a polystyrene bead to suspend the fly just under the film.
Tied with a Cul De Canard puff, you
get a slimmer and lighter fly and easier to tie too |
Hook
Kamasan B110 (H14)
Thread: 8/0 noir
Body: Hare's ear
Ribbing: Copper wire
Wing: CDC type 3 oiler puff
Thorax: Peacock herl
Breathers: polypropylene fibers
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finished fly |
Take
in your right hand the rachis tip of an oiler puff |
With
your left hand, stroke the barbules back |
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the feather 2 mm from the hook eye (Thread is already attached) |
With
the thread, make 2 loose turn around the feather , and pull the
puff through to give the proper length |
The
Puff will make a small ball, you can make it bigger by pulling
more of it moins. Cut the loose ends |
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| Tie
the ribbing wire and the breather and dub the thread with hare's
ears. |
Wind
up the dubbing, stopping short of the wing |
Wind
up the copper rib and tie 2 peacock herl |
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up the herl |
Tie
the herl and cut the waste. Wind up thread in front of the wing to
make it go upward. |
Cut
the breather to length |
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Another emerger tied the same way (A variant from Bob Wyatt Deer
Hair Emerger). Make several turn of dubbing in front of the wing
to make it vertical.
You could apply some "Float
Fly" on the wing and thorax : The result, the fly floating in
an aquarium, You notice the air
bubble around the thorax.
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On
the left: An F fly tie the same way. The barbules can be left ( make legs)
or cut .
On the right, a Klinkhammer type fly, the
parachute polypropylene fibers is replaced by a CDC puff
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On
the right, a parachute fly, the barbules tips are not cut and
replace the hackle. On the left, the same fly seem from underneath |
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No
CDC flies would be complete without the CDC and Elk, on the left,
the CDC and Puff:
Body: CDC feather type 1 wound up on the shank.
Wing: CDC puff
On the right, Puff Caddis, one CDC puff and one hackle |
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Comments from an Irish customer:
See the Forum:
http://www.flyforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7134
Tied up some of the above (Puff caddis)
using the CDC puffs. Simplicity in the extreme, with a very
Sedge Like profile. For the last few seasons CDC Bubble Sedges
have being the mainstay of my sedge fishing- also easy to tie,
but not as easy as above.
I tied a few without the hackle , I simply left some of the tips
of the puff on the eye side of the tying in point, and then
brought the thread back through these to the eye - this leaves
the cdc tips as though they were wound hackles.
CDC has also been the mainstay of my spinners, I have tried
three techniques for producing these , and had settled on
winding two CDC hackles and then splitting with figure of eights.
With the CDC puffs this is simple, tie in with hackle tips
pointing over the eye of the hook, separate tips into 2 halfs
and figure 8 to give u the split wings.
For anyone that is interested in tying with CDC these very
inexpensive puffs will give you hours of enjoyment and will
really kick your inventive side into gear.
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