Carey Special-Peacock

The Peacock Carey Special is a soft-hackle wet fly built on an iridescent peacock-herl body with a long pheasant-rump collar. The rump fibers breathe and pulse on the swing, imitating an emerging dragonfly nymph, caddis, or drowned insect with constant motion.

A Pacific Northwest stillwater classic, the Carey reads as a swimming nymph and produces on a slow retrieve or a wet-fly swing.

Best for:

• Stillwater dragonfly-nymph fishing
  
• Slow swings and hand-twist retrieves
  
• Lakes and slow rivers

📌 Pro Tip: Retrieve it slow with pauses—the pheasant-rump collar opens and closes like a swimming nymph's legs, and the eat usually comes as the fibers flare on the stop.