BIG Drifting Dun

[dwiltshire]

Hook: Partridge SUD #10
Thread: Sheer 14/0, orange
Abdomen: Orvis Spectrablend, ginger
Tail: Coq de Leon, 4 fibres
Thorax: As abdomen, with hare in split thread
Wing: CDC, Khaki

[bigbadtroutfisher]

Very nice tying Dave a little big for our rivers up here
Robert

[andy macbog]

Another of your lovely flies!

I notice that in this and some of your other 'comparadun' style CDC wings that you don't fan the CDC out to a full 180 degrees. Obviously your flies will sit a bit lower than mine do and I just wondered what the advantages of this are.

I fan mine to the full 180 degrees because I saw it as as such in the books/online and figured it would create a good footprint and stabilise the fly too. Or maybe I am producing something more spinner-like?

And thanks for the inspiration I get and am sure plenty others do, from your post in here and on your website!

Andy

[dwiltshire]

Originally Posted by bigbadtroutfisher

Very nice tying Dave a little big for our rivers up here
Robert

... and for ours down here This is for those evenings when the fish are slathering duns - I find a huge amount of fun in fishing a big fly and watching them go nuts

Oh for a warm summer evening with a hatch...

Originally Posted by andy macbog

Another of your lovely flies!

I notice that in this and some of your other 'comparadun' style CDC wings that you don't fan the CDC out to a full 180 degrees. Obviously your flies will sit a bit lower than mine do and I just wondered what the advantages of this are.

I fan mine to the full 180 degrees because I saw it as as such in the books/online and figured it would create a good footprint and stabilise the fly too. Or maybe I am producing something more spinner-like?

And thanks for the inspiration I get and am sure plenty others do, from your post in here and on your website!

Andy

Andy, you are quite correct and your fully fanned wing will work well. I like to allow the body of these to do some of the work - a little dilly wax helps - but you are corret that this will fish low in the water.

For the higher riding dun patterns, I opt for the CDC Dun:



For the spinner, if you like using CDC aim for something along the lines of:



Thanks for the feedback

Cheers,

[stevekale]

Originally Posted by dwiltshire

Hook: Partridge SUD #10
Thread: Sheer 14/0, orange
Abdomen: Orvis Spectrablend, ginger
Tail: Coq de Leon, 4 fibres
Thorax: As abdomen, with hare in split thread
Wing: CDC, Khaki

Nice. Is that enough tail to support the rear of that hook in the surface film?

[dwiltshire]

Steve,

Originally Posted by stevekale

Nice. Is that enough tail to support the rear of that hook in the surface film?

I agree it is sparse and I would rarely fish such a brute but...

Originally Posted by dwiltshire

I like to allow the body of these to do some of the work - a little dilly wax helps - but you are correct that this will fish low in the water.

The same goes for the tails and it all holds up perfectly well

[andy macbog]

Thanks for the reply Dave,

Much appreciated. I must tie a few up in different styles and see how I get on with them though my local Spey brownies are probably not the fussiest wee bu**ers on the planet! But there is that odd one who steadfastly ignores the same offerings the others accept . . .. And my occasional trips to the Upper Clyde.



Andy