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
Canard, Nova Scotia takes its name from the Canard River. Successive cultures have lived by the river and have named the settlement area by different but related names. Where Canard Street and Highway 358 intersect is known as jawbone corner, often called this by the local residents of the area. It got its names because back before the Wellington Dyke was completed in 1885, a large whale swam up the Canard river, and became stranded on the beach as the tide went out. The jaw bones of the big whale were then placed in the yard of the house that was on the