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Ivens' Jersey Herd SBS
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A Tom Ivens' British stillwater pattern from the 70's. Original fly was tied with a body of gold foil from a milk bottle known as a gold top; at that time the Jersey cows were the ones milked to give the best full cream milk, hence the name Jersey Herd.
hook - Mustad 79580 #6
thread - Danville 6/0 black
rib - small wire copper
underbody - Uni-stretch orange
body - mylar tinsel copper
tail/shellback/head - peacock herl
hackle - hen brown
Part 1
mash barb, start underbody, tie in rib, wrap to bend
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create tapered underbody; start thread, tie off/trim Uni-stretch, tie in tinsel
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wrap to bend, and back; tie off/trim
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measure (shank length past bend) some peacock herl
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hold fibers against the body and start wire rib forward (original pattern had peacock tied in at tail and head with no rib for protection - too fragile so rib was added); pull herl butts back, helicopter end of wire, cover with thread
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Lovely pattern, and a very nice tie, Scott. Thank you for single-handedly keeping the fly tying section alive. Awfully quiet around here if it were not for your tutorials.
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Great tutorial! I really like patterns that use herl. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks killer for some high sage brush lakes here. Probably somewhat fragile with the bruisers.
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Did a few with red or yellow for the under body.
Better colors for here.
Rick
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ScottP, yet another excellent tie and SBS of an interesting fly.
I looked up that pattern a few weeks ago after it was mentioned by, I think, Chris Sandford. There are some wonderful old patterns out there.
Regards,
Ed
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Well, I just tried my hand at this one and mine isn't a show piece, that's for certain, but it came out half decent and should fish. I believe the next effort will be better.
Thank you for a wonderful tutorial to a beautiful fly.
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Another body material would be copper pot scrubber. I just unravel and use the flat copper wire that it's made out of for the body material. It also gives the fly a bit more weight.
