video - CDC&Elk

[Hans Weilenmann]

Not a wingless wet, but not a bad pattern to have in your flybox



CDC&Elk
Hook: Tiemco 102Y #15
Thread: Uno-thread 6/0, brown
Body/'legs': CDC, natural (or color to match a natural)
Wing/head: Mule deer, natural

Video here (720p):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iXWIS9dprM

Cheers,
Hans W

[Izaak]

I have caught a lot of trout on this fly Hans. Simply brilliant!

[Hans Weilenmann]

I have caught a lot of trout on this fly Hans.

*chuckle*

Make that two of us.

Cheers,
Hans W

[narcodog]

That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

[JohnP]

That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

[Old Hat]

Me too. Lots of fish on this one.

Although this fly is also responsible for a falling record. There is a river here in Oregon that holds a lot of rainbows. It also holds a lot of bottom whitefish. I prided myself on not catching any whitefish where it seemed everyone in our fishing club caught plenty during their trout hunting. I had been fishing this river for 6 years...not a whitefish ever. I chalked it up to not being a heavy nymph dredger and spent 6 years harassing my fishing partners about it. Then on year seven....I bounced a size #16 CDC and Elk (after just discovering that pattern from the internet and tying a few the week before) off one of my favorite boulders which had a well formed very deep hole downstream of it. I could always count on a nice fish here if I hit the rock and dropped a dry with in 2 inches of the down river side of the rock. I did just that and hooked up one of the nicest fish I had ever caught here, or so I thought. I landed a 22 inch bottom dwelling, scaly, pale, nasty ol' whitefish that rose to the CDC and Elk. I cursed that fly for weeks and eventually got over it. Kind of.

[narcodog]

That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

Yes carp, horny heads, mountain whitefish, chubs but especially big golden spotted carp.

[hankaye]

Hans, Howdy;

Got to hand it to ya, great video(s), been watching most as they get
pointed out in your posts and the others that show up alongside the linked video.

A question, ..... I have yet to hear you mention the use of wax.
There are many that swear by it. My question is, ... do you use wax ?
Just bein' courious ...

hank

[JohnP]

That is my all time go to fly since discovering a couple of years ago. I will in all likely hood use it tomorrow.

For carp?

Yes carp, horny heads, mountain whitefish, chubs but especially big golden spotted carp.

Awesome. Be sure to post some pics.

[Hans Weilenmann]

Hans, Howdy;

Got to hand it to ya, great video(s), been watching most as they get
pointed out in your posts and the others that show up alongside the linked video.

A question, ..... I have yet to hear you mention the use of wax.
There are many that swear by it. My question is, ... do you use wax ?
Just bein' courious ...

hank

*chuckle*

You must not have read my text on wax use in flytying where I wrote something like: "wax is a flytier's crutch, it is a substitute for inadequate dubbing technique"

Did I mention that it was a text intended to be a little confrontational?

It dealt with my take on wax, the pros, the disadvantages.

In my tying there are few advantages to using wax. I really have only two occasions where I use wax:

- Classic Greenwells - where I stain the silk with cobbler's wax

- Touch dubbing (which has for the most part been replaced by split thread dubbing anyway)

Cheers,
Hans W