Video Pro Tip: A Ridiculously Simple Way to Dry Your CDC Fly on the Water

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Fly fishers are inveterate tinkerers, always looking for the best way to do things. Here’s a video from Fly Fish Food that demonstrates an ingenious system for drying out CDC dry flies. Since you can’t use floatant on CDC, it usually requires several sharp false casts to get such a fly floating again after it’s been sunk. But sometimes even false-casting won’t get the fly completely back into high-floating shape, so here’s another method.

Since I love fishing with CDC—especially for caddisfly imitations and mayfly emergers—this is right up my alley.

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