A wee twist to a popular pattern hope it hekps

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I'm soz Simmo, but, how the fk is that a cruncher??? What's left from the original dressing, I hasten to add, was a pheasant tail spider?

You might as well call it a Simmonymph, hmmm?

These all worked for me last year....









....and I've been refining them since.

It has the same profile as a cruncher hence the name, granted it may have moved on from the original. But hey you don't have to tie them up, as Brownsville has shown and stated below this type of pattern works really well. I thought it would be useful to share it

They look very good Brownsville thanks for showing them.

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The crunchers a style, not a single pattern, i like it with black hackle and tail with yellow pt body

With respect flytyingguy ... I'm sure I'm not alone in the presumption that the 'Cruncher' is indeed a 'single' pattern... Red game tail... PT body... Fine silver wire rib.. Claret hue peacock herl thorax and Greenwell hackle.... tied slim... All the other concoctions are simply that... concoctions..

Same as the Captain Scarlet ... Blob?

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Each & too their own, but the cruncher is a style, which includes


Cock fibres for the tail
A rib - Wire
A body of stripped quill or pheasent tail
a thorax of dubbing or straggle frit or peacock herl and a sparse hen hackle

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The one you stress is the original but for example a hopper is a style, not a single pattern, or a cdc shuttlecock, or a diawl bach

Okay...so on that theory a Bibio is virtually a Soldier Palmer.... a Soldier Palmer is a Zulu in different colours...could have a laugh with that one flytyingguy! Picture the scene...I'm nailing fish on a Soldier Palmer...my big fishing buddy asks me what I'm catching them on...without batting an eyelid I tell him a Zulu. At the end of the day he checks my leader and I've got three Soldier Palmers on...He'd be furious I'd say "Chill, it's just a style, you didn't ask me the colour!"

The ones I tied last night and gave you this morning to try

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Ok, when you go to a fishery and look at the logbook for catch returns and someone was catching on a cruncher - theyre not gonna make a name up on the spot to call the fly, they'll write down cruncher, because the style of the fly was based around a crucnher, maybe they changed the hackle but still the same fly, if i showed you a greena nd black fly which looked the same as the original but had different colourations, you would say "Was that the fly you were getting them on, a crucnher?"