Cul De Canard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

fishing
Artificial fly
Fly lure
Fly tying
Amadou
Cul De Canard
Trolling t/streamer

Clouser D/Minnow
Diawl bach
Egg sucking leech
Flesh Fly
Hare's Ear
Klinkhammer
Muddler Minnow
Pheasant T/Nymph
Woolly Worm
Woolly Bugger

fly fishing
recreational
This box: view  talk  edit

Cul De Canard (CDC) (French for "Duck bottom") is the fluffiest down feathers from the bottom of a duck; they are very buoyant and are used when tying dry flies. They owe their buoyancy to their proximity to the ducks preen gland which secretes an oil distributed by the duck as a cleaning and waterproofing measure. It is unnecessary for the angler to add additional oil by way of floatant.

Flies incorporating CDC are easy to dress and popular with anglers and trout alike.