Ivens' Jersey Herd SBS

[ScottP]

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




create tapered underbody; start thread, tie off/trim Uni-stretch, tie in tinsel






wrap to bend, and back; tie off/trim






measure (shank length past bend) some peacock herl




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

[ScottP]

Part 2

tie in (folded) hackle by tip; wrap, tie off/trim






stroke hackle fibers down/back, cover with thread wraps






pull peacock forward, tie down in front of hackle




twist butts with thread




create herl head, tie off/trim, half hitch x 2, SHHAN










Regards,
Scott

[whatfly]

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.

[TyroneFly]

Great tutorial! I really like patterns that use herl. Thanks for sharing.

[chewydog]

Looks killer for some high sage brush lakes here. Probably somewhat fragile with the bruisers.

[Rick Z]

Did a few with red or yellow for the under body.
Better colors for here.

Rick

[Ed_D]

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

[PA Dave]

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.

[BBBruce77]

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.