CDC & Elk Spinner
Note: Tie the fly like the CDC & Elk but transform it to a spinner by adding 2 strands of flash and splitting the wing with a figure 8. To keep the CDC barbules out of the way, when splitting the wing, I hold them tight against the hook shank with one of those little Radio Shack clips.
To my regret, I got caught without spinner patterns in my flybox when on a spring trip to the Catskills, NY. Next time I will be prepared! Hans's CDC and Elk has become pretty much my exclusive dry fly and so I thought why not alter it to be a spinner fly ?. I expect this fly to be a killer during the next spinner fall!