I decided to tie up some Carey Specials in size 6, using three strands of peacock herl for the body. The recipie call for a copper rib, but after tying the first one with the copper, I switched to using the tag end of the 3/0 thread for the rib. Since the rib sinks so deep into the herl I don't think it should make any difference. Do you? Thanks.

Tim

Link: http://www.westfly.com/patterns/wet/careyspecial.shtml