Cul de canard and popular with anglers and trout alike. The use of CDC's in fly fishing originated from the Jura Mountains during the 1920s where fly fishermen used this feather in dry flies to aid buoyancy in a particular pattern called Moustique. It took until the 1980s for popular use of this feather within a whole range of patterns. Cul de canard Cul de canard (CDC) (French for "duck bottom") are the feathers from the back of a duck directly around the preen gland (uropygial gland); they are very buoyant due to preen oil produced by the preen gland. They are used
Le Canard enchaîné Spanish Republican government of Madrid, whilst Galtier-Boissière remained strictly pacifist. The "Canard" and its format served as an inspiration for the satirical weekly magazine "El Be Negre", published in Barcelona between 1931 and 1936. The "Canard" has a fixed eight-page layout. Pages 1, 2–4 and 8 are mostly news and editorials. Page 2 carries anecdotes from the political and business world. Pages 5–7 are dedicated to social issues (such as the environment), profiles, general humour and satire, and literary, theatre, opera and film criticism. One section, called "l'Album de la Comtesse", is dedicated to spoonerisms. The "Canard" is notable because