In the eighties, the most used system to tie the wings of a CDC may fly spent was to overlay two bundles of fibers, the bases of one over the tips of the other, and then fix them, half of their length, in a horizontal position and orthogonal to the shank of the hook.
Since it was not easy to find View more...In the eighties, the most used system to tie the wings of a CDC may fly spent was to overlay two bundles of fibers, the bases of one over the tips of the other, and then fix them, half of their length, in a horizontal position and orthogonal to the shank of the hook.
Since it was not easy to find hackles of CDC with fibers of a certain length, you could easily tie only imitations smaller while to tie larger ones is a problem
Some fishermen an alternative to the bundles, used two small feathers, but the result left much to be desired because the wings were stiff because of the stem of feathers that were in them.
I, however, to obtain the wings of flies of greater size, tore the bundles of fibers from hackles, but, instead of overlapping, I tied them on the sides of the hook shank.
The tying was a little laborious, so when I conceived the Mirage 2, I realized that I could serve the process by which I was tying to get the spent in a simpler way and without tearing the fibers of CDC.
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List of materials
Thread 8/0
Hook rigth stem size 14/16/18/20
Tails: Coq de Leon fibers
body: Stripped peacock quill
Wings and chest: A CDC hackle
Steps
Step 1
Tie tails and a stripped peacock quill on the bend of a hook stem right.
Step 2
Wrap quill around the hook shank and cut the excess.
Step 3
Take a CDC hackle, board the fibers along the feather quill and tie it next to the abdomen of the fly.
As a result of the tying, the hackle fibers are pushed forward, other eye of the hook.
Step 4
Keeping with pliers or fingers the tip of the hackle, shift the fibers along the feather quill and tie them next eye. Performing this operation, do converge fibers with the surplus of those of the base, in order to obtain the wings of spent.
Step 5
Cut the excess hackle.
Step 6
Take the base of the hackle, reverse it above the fibers of the wings and tie it next eye of hook.
Step 7
The step seen from above
Step 8
Cut the surplus of hackle.
Step 9
Tie head of imitation.
Step 10
Raise the fibers and cutting to get the wings of spent.
Step 12
Caenis tied on Hook TMC 2488 size 30
