09-19-2006, 02:22 PM
No doubt that with each activity there is a set of jargon one needs to learn.
With fly fishing and fly tying there seems to be WHOLE lot of it.
Year Before lastI came acros a fly called CDC & Elk Caddis that calls for type I CDC. It sounded like a good effective fly to me. I spent months trying to find this type I CDC. Every time I went to a different fly shop I asked them for it. Everyone thought I was nuts. ..... Well, I probably am but that is another subject.
Then I found an article on Fly Fisherman Magazine's website describing four different types of CDC. Then I realized the article was written by the same guy in Denmark that came up with the CDC & Elk. So I sent him an E-mail asking him where I could get this type I. It was then that I found out it was terminology he came up with to describe different forms of CDC feathers. He told me that one needed to buy CDC feathers in bulk. I gave up at that point as i did not need a life time supply of feathers.
It took another year before people around here started carrying small packages of the feathers. Or at least was that long before I realized the place that Hans had referred me to had products in small packages.
So I finally now have been experimenting with Hans CDC and Elk caddis. By the way the fly does not have any elk in it but does have a fine deer. There you go with needing to know the different types of deer hair you can get.
That was my attempt at a little humor.
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With fly fishing and fly tying there seems to be WHOLE lot of it.
Year Before lastI came acros a fly called CDC & Elk Caddis that calls for type I CDC. It sounded like a good effective fly to me. I spent months trying to find this type I CDC. Every time I went to a different fly shop I asked them for it. Everyone thought I was nuts. ..... Well, I probably am but that is another subject.
Then I found an article on Fly Fisherman Magazine's website describing four different types of CDC. Then I realized the article was written by the same guy in Denmark that came up with the CDC & Elk. So I sent him an E-mail asking him where I could get this type I. It was then that I found out it was terminology he came up with to describe different forms of CDC feathers. He told me that one needed to buy CDC feathers in bulk. I gave up at that point as i did not need a life time supply of feathers.
It took another year before people around here started carrying small packages of the feathers. Or at least was that long before I realized the place that Hans had referred me to had products in small packages.
So I finally now have been experimenting with Hans CDC and Elk caddis. By the way the fly does not have any elk in it but does have a fine deer. There you go with needing to know the different types of deer hair you can get.
That was my attempt at a little humor.
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