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
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.
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.
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.
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.
