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 Shapeless can be the right shape, the effective dressing.

 The emergers are by definition, unfinished flies, imperfect yet creatures, sometimes insects dying in the surface because the water surface is covered by pollution fall out

This is valid for any straight dry fly ut can be alternated in the case of mergers?

Such dressing allows the fly to conserve the initial shape and not to be transformed in a shapeless creation.

 Oblique : Comparadun CDC

 Horizontal : Caddis wings , CDC papchutes

 Vertical : mayflies, caddis hackles

 This is valid for all types of dressing:

The ideal dressing is always made with another support, in general cock hackle or other soft hackle (partridge, grouse, etc); sometimes synthetic fibers or deer hair can be of a certain help.

 The CDC is very often too soft to provide complete satisfaction and perfect holding.

 By the way, you do not need chemical substances to improve floatability ?the best you can do is to dry the CDC fly with an AMADOU patch.

The very small ramifications on each side are by far more attractive than the hackle fibers and very similar to the insect legs.

The other aspect to be taken in consideration is the efficiency of the feather. This comes from the fact that the multitude of fibers (some of them floating and some penetrating the surface), remain soft and supple and practically in permanent movement.

Somehow they float better when degreased?.we use shampoo on the raw material, when we receive it from the slaughter.

The main reason these feathers float, is their structure ?in other words, the multitude of fibers and ramifications.

 The feathers are collected around the oil gland of the duck. It does not mean that oily aspect is the main factor of floatability.

 There are a few things you should know about CDC:

As already advertised we are the first company in the world which has been using CDC material, since 1949.