Carey Special
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Re: Carey Special
In a word, beautiful.
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Re: Carey Special
The Carey Special is a very popular Pacific NW fly. Bodies with green or red wool or peacock herl are the most popular. I used to get a lot of the green wool bodied ones shredded on the opening weekends. My brother-in-law had an epic weekend at a 4800' elevation high country lake one weekend with the peacock herl bodied one and a bunch of west slope cutthroat trout.
Re: Careys
The coolwater/warmwater utility of these patterns open them to a broad swath of fisherfolk.
Speaking of the ever-inspiring UC Steve, here's his Oaxacan-blanket-bodied Bird's Carey:
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Speaking of the ever-inspiring UC Steve, here's his Oaxacan-blanket-bodied Bird's Carey:
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