CDC Waterhen Bloa

Published on Sep 8. 2023 - 1 years ago
Updated or edited 1 years ago

Materials Used;

Hook, Fulling Mill size 14 Competition Heavyweight
Thread, Uni 8/0 Yellow
Body, Fulling Mull Euro Nymph Dark Hare's Ear Dubbing or Mole
Hackle, Natural Grey CDC Feather

Video by

Davie McPhail

CDC Soft Hackle Wet Fly

CDC Soft Hackle Wet Fly..

Materials Used;

Apr 21. 2025

CDC Rough Olive Emerger

This simple LDO emerger is excellent for rivers and can be adapeted to suit essentially any if the smaller upwing species including on stillwaters from march browns to olives to PMDs.

Apr 21. 2025

CDC Parachute Midge

This tasty little chironomid is excellent for trout and grayling and can be tied in essentially any colour to match the midges where you fish.

Mar 5. 2021

Red Tag Revisited

I always loved the Red Tag. I have tied and fished this fly a thousand times, but tend to basically do it the same way every time. Not so anymore!

Jun 27. 2019

Sea Trout CDC&Elk

The CDC&Elk is a famous and efficient Caddis dry fly. This variation works for Baltic sea trout... and was actually inspired by the bonefish version of the fly

Petitjean CDC

Jun 27. 2018

A massive book, solely on CDC-feathers, -flies and -tying techniques by Swiss CDC master Marc Petitjean.

Since you got this far …

The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.
See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.