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On Apr 22, 2004, at 7:21 PM, Uncle Brad and Elly wrote:
At the risk of appearing to be stumping as an advertisement, where would one
find said products by Chan/Rowley ?
BjR
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Subject: Re: Book and Product Reviews - CDC
I second Mike's comments about Rene Harrop's CDC available through
Trouthunter. Les and I split several of their 1/8 oz bags last fall.
The feathers come in a variety of sizes and the natural colors (browns,
tans and duns) are excellent. The 1/8 oz bags are priced at about $15
which amounts to a lifetime supply for the average tyer. Harrop also
introduced a line of CDC dubbing which was available at the Trouthunter
booth at the Flyfishing Show in Bellevue a couple months ago. I haven't
tried it yet but am looking forward to doing so.
On another note, I see that Brian Chan and Phil Rowley have introduced a line of tying materials aimed at stillwater fishers. Their maribou, ostrich, dubbing, and other materials are coordinated in a range of subtle matching colors that are marked improvements (at least in my opinion) over the bright, almost garish hues one usually finds in shops. If anyone's tried their new stuff, I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on using it.
Kent Lufkin
On Apr 22, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Michael Santangelo wrote:
Andy,
I don't know if you will find all three of your requirements: low price, quality and color selection in one place. If you do please let me know.
Here are a couple of options that I'm aware of. However, neither of them are cheap:
In the US, you can try Rene Harrop. His color selection is limited, but he has more than just natural. The first site below is his home page. That site's materials link is under construction so the site below "trouthunt" shows Rene's products, price and color selection.
http://www.trouthunt.com/index.htm
http://www.troutflies.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=h oh_cdc_oz
FlyFishingCDC has the best commercially sold CDC that I have seen to date. At a show, we did a direct comparison to Marc Petitjean's CDC and FlyFishingCDC's. FlyFishingCDC's product is higher quality and the pricing better than Marc's. Every feather in the bag is usable. You can use the left over snippings as dubbing.
http://www.flyfishingcdc.com/site%20usa/Fly/boutiqueusa/index2.php? url_princ ipal=cdc__0.htm
If you order from FlyFishing CDC you may want to go in with a few folks and at least save on the shipping costs.
Again, if you find another source of quality product at a good price, please let me know.
Best Regards,
Mike
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And finally - speaking of new CDC tricks - can anyone recommend a great
source for CDC (cheap - high quality, lots of colors)? The Magic Tool
DVD
did make me want to play more with CDC (with CDC callibaetis being the
fly
of the evening tonight -which should pretty much exhaust my dun and
black
CDC stock using four feathers at a time and not being able to use the
"puffs/oilers" with this method...)
Tight lines,
Andy
