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	Goal : carey special This fly demonstrates tying a wet fly with a long hackle collar and a ribbed chenille body. The following flies are tied similarly: Dragon, Red Squirrel Bead Head, Partridge and Orange Soft Hackle, Sheep Creek Special, Brown Hackle Peacock, and Gray Hackle Peacock.
	Recipe HOOK - Tiemco 300, sizes 4-12. THREAD - Black 3/0, prewaxed. TAIL - Ringneck pheasant rump fibers. RIB - Copper wire. BODY - Olive chenille. HACKLE - Ringneck pheasant rump.
	Tail The first step is to tie in the tail. Select a section of pheasant rump fibers and tie them in, with a section equal to half the length of the shank extending off the back of the hook. A common error made by beginning tiers is to wrap the tail down the bend of the hook, causing it to slope down.
	Body 1 Tie in a piece of copper wire from the point of the hook to the bend.
	Body 2 Tie in a piece of olive chenille with the grain going backwards. The chenille should be tied in just behind the eye. Hold the chenille at a 30- or 45-degree angle as you wrap the thread back to the bend of the hook. This keeps the chenille on top of the shank. (It is helpful to get into the habit of holding materials at an angle while tying them in.) Wrap the bobbin back to the front of the hook.
	Body 3 Wrap the chenille forward, making smooth, side-by-side wraps. Tie the chenille off near the eye.
	Body 4 Wrap the copper wire forward to the eye. Use wide wraps through the body. If the wraps are too close together, the wire will fall between the wraps of chenille. Tie off the wire at the eye. Clip the excess wire using the base of your scissor blades. (This helps avoid dulling the tips of the blades).
	Hackle 1 Hackling this fly requires a technique slightly different from others. Pull the hackle fibers straight from the stem of the pheasant rump feather.
	Hackle 2 Pull the fibers back and tie in the tip of the feather.
	Hackle 3 Wrap the hackle around the shank. Pull all the fibers back with your left hand after each wrap, causing the fibers to stream back into the body. Once you have wrapped all the fibers around the body, tie off the hackle by making four or five tight wraps around the stem.
	Hackle 4 Trim the excess and use the thread to form the head of the fly. Whip finish and place a drop of cement on the head. (The whip finish lesson is taught in the BASICS section of this program.)