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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

I frequently get questions about CDC or Cul de Canard, a special feather found on ducks that makes very effective dry flies, emergers, and nymphs. What is it? Where does it come from? Why is it so special? What kinds of CDC are there, and how do you use it? And when fishing these flies, how do you treat them. My friend (and friendly nemisis from our monthly fly-tyig tie-offs) Tim Flagler [46:41] and I tell everything we know about CDC and its uses. I hope this answers many of your questions.

In the Fly Box this week, we have great tips from listeners and questions, including:

A tip for fly fishers who suffer from arthritis

Would it be better for me to take lessons on the water or hire a guide?

What are the best saltwater knots?

How do I avoid hitting myself and other people in the boat when fishing a heavy streamer?

Tips from a listener on repairing old bamboo rods, and advice for finding them at tag sales and reconditioning them

How do I pick up small hooks and beads that I drop off my tying table?

Can I overline my 3-weight fiberglass rod by two line sizes for fishing small streams?

Advice from a listener on cleaning and maintaining cork grips

What do you wear under electric socks?

Can I take some old flies and add a parachute to them?

What do you recommend I tie with all these game bird feathers I have been saving from my hunting trips?

When do you use wire, and when do you use beads on nymphs?

Do stocked fish push wild fish out of their normal places?

How do I keep my Elk Hair Caddis wing from rotating after I fish them for awhile?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Live Fishing Podcast.
0:14.4	This is your host Tom Rosenbauer and I have a favor to ask you this week's.
0:18.6	I have been nominated for Best Podcast, Outdoor Podcast of 2021 by the Outdoor Media Awards
0:29.4	and there's voting open for people's choice and if you like this podcast I'd really I'd
0:36.9	really love your vote so you have to go to a Facebook page, you have to go to the outdoor
0:42.3	media awards Facebook page and then scroll down a little bit and there'll be a place to
0:49.1	vote for Best Outdoor Podcast and you'll have to click on the more button because I'm
0:54.2	buried down below in the list but would love to have your vote be fun to try to win that award
1:03.3	and if you do vote for me I want to thank you or vote for somebody else if you think somebody else
1:11.1	has a better podcast. Anyway this week on the podcast we're going to be talking to my friend Tim
1:19.7	Flagler who I have a tie-off with live tie-off with monthly on the web and Tim is my guest and
1:31.2	we're going to be talking about CDC, everything almost everything you wanted to know about CDC and
1:38.0	what is CDC? Well CDC is a special feather on a duck that's used in lots of dry and
1:45.7	merger patterns and it's a very very useful pattern but there are a lot of questions about how to
1:50.6	use it and the different types and where does it come from and if I hunt ducks can I get them myself
1:56.5	and what do I do with this stuff? So because I've gotten a lot of questions about it Tim and I
2:02.7	are going to do a whole podcast on CDC so it's pretty geeky if you're not a fly tire you maybe want
2:08.6	to listen to just listen to the flybox this week and but it does talk about how to how to fish these
2:14.2	flies and how to treat them so maybe you want to maybe you want to hang in there.
2:18.9	Anyway that's the podcast for this week let's do some questions in the flybox and if you have a
2:27.0	question for the flybox you can send it to me at podcast at orvis.com you can either just type your
2:36.0	question in your email or you can attach a voice file and I can listen to your voice and maybe
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