CDC Feathers
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From: Goelk
07-Feb-25
Cul-de-canard (CDC) feathers on a Canada goose are located around the preen gland, or uropygial gland, on the back of the bird, close to the tail. If anyone hunting Geese Thanks
From: Goelk
07-Feb-25
Opps Im collecting for tying flies
From: Treeline
07-Feb-25
They do help keep flies from getting waterlogged… but if you use flotant, they don’t last very well… Caddis? Emergers?
From: Bou'bound
08-Feb-25
Good info. Thanks.
From: Will
08-Feb-25
Treeline - some desecant style drying agents work with CDC, or a good Amadou patch... I've found CDC to work well until you catch a fish - then it needs to be dried. Sometimes a bunch of false casts on a short line works - just to dry the fly. But sometimes you just need to use another fly.
Helps to tie your own so you have a bunch to rotate.
They are awesome when integrated with a bunch of different flies. From shuttlecock style emergers to caddis emergers and dries, sometimes even on a bead head wet or nymph or flymph because they hold air, and the bubbles look something like those on an emerging insect.
Great material overall.
From: goelk
09-Feb-25
yes GREAT MATERIAL USE ALOT ON CADDIS AND CADDIS PUPA AND EMERGERS AND DRY FLIES I'm HOPING SOMEONE THAT GOOSE HUNTING CAN GET ME SOME CDC FEATHERS. THANKS
From: buckeye
09-Feb-25
I don't goose hunt but I do have 3 roosters that will be going in the crock pot soon, any use for the hackle feathers? ( Neck feathers)
From: Corax_latrans
09-Feb-25
If you put fly dope on CDC, you’ve ruined it.
From: olddogrib
10-Feb-25
I'm so glad that CDC didn't stand for "Center for Disease Control, lol!
