Library Step by Step Duck & CDC fly

Duck & CDC fly

After to have created the Mirage, I thought that with combination of a duck hackle with a CDC hackle I could to obtain a robust extended body and wings soft. The tying procedure is similar to that of the Mirage, with the difference that we have to use two overlapping hackles.
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Duck & CDC fly
List of materials
Hook: Grub size 14 16 18 Thread: Pale brown 8/0 Body: Duck feather & CDC hackle. Wing: Duck and CDC fibers
Steps

Step 1

Take a feather from the side of female Mallard.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 1

Step 2

Holding the hackle for the tip, I strain the fibers toward the base, so as to obtain an extended body, and tie it on a grub hook.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 2

Step 3

Above the hackle duck, I tie an extended body, created with a CDC hackle, following the procedure described above

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 3

Step 4

The two hackles overlapping tied.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 4

Step 5

Keeping in slight tension the two hackles for tips, I wrap the tying thread around the same, a wide coils, along the length of the extended body.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 5

Step 6

I'm going back, crossing the coils of tying thread with those previously wrapped up to the starting point.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 6

Step 7

Tie the stem of duck feather on hook

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 7

Step 8

Do converge at a single point of the hook stem the fibers of the two hackles which exceed from the tie of the extended body, put them in vertical with a few turns of tying thread cross to eight around the base of the wings.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 8

Step 9

Cut the excess of the CDC hackle extend beyond the hook.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 9

Step 10

Tie the head of the fly.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 10

Step 11

Cut the excess of CDC hackle.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 11

Step 12

Take off the fly from vise and cut the excess of duck hackle, leaving two fibers to imitate the tails.

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 12

Step 13

Fly finished

Fly tying - Duck & CDC fly - Step 13

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