Tying a Greenwells Cruncher Wet/Nymph Pattern with Davie McPhail 

That's one nice fly Davie.

Great fly! Love starting the day with a tea & a fly by Davie! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent watching your skilled craft.... Thanks Davie

Nice wee fly davie

Fine one!

Very nice looking fly.

Great pattern Davie thx

Thanks Davie, that’s one mean looking cruncher. That another hour or so at my tying bench adding to the “Davie” box. Thanks so much for sharing your skill with us all. Cheers

Great looking nymph mate. Always get great videos from the Master. Thanks for sharing. Best Regards from West Virginia, Ken

superbe Davie

Great looking I'll be adding a few✌

Another beautifully tied fly Davie, thanks.

Отличный вариант! Благодарю вас, Дэви! 👍🤝🇰🇿

Very nice. Simple, balanced and looks effective. Best nymph I have seen in quite a while. You are a master

I did enjoy it, Davie... thank you. Oh, maybe one more tye before the end of the evening. Think I'll go back and watch your original Greenwells for the 900th time... =] Mike

Another lovely nymph Davie thanks

Beautiful little cruncher davie tks

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This looks like a great pattern.... and like you say, that guard hair without the hackle looks like a cracking pattern also.... I'm definitely tying this one up, and I can see it working in a variety of colours too.

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Thank you Davie; a lovely traditional sort of fly, beautifully dressed as usual. And the usual helpful D McP comments, like dressing short to help removal without getting damaged. Though I'm not sure why anyone would want this on a barbed hook, with all the superb barbless choices we have available now. Cynical old feather-winder that I am, I smile when I see its name and hear things like 'tied in cruncher style'. I really don't know what that is, but I do know that this fly is basically identical to most of the nymphs that Skues was tying and using early in the 20th century. He might have used a tad shorter hackle to aid penetration and sinking. Dressed, probably, on a Bartleets B7362 sneck (that is, square bend), this fly could easily have dropped out of Skues' vice on the train en-route to the Itchen from London 100 years earlier. He would have loved this video and seen it, rightly, as an affirmation of the, then revolutionary, ideas he pioneered all that time ago.

Another really great pattern, will work for our May & June hatches!

Nice pattern thanks for sharing

Poetry in motion 🤙

After a rough day at work nothing like a little Wee Beastie and Davie to settle the nerves. Fantastic looking pattern. But what is a Cruncher? Can’t see why that wouldn’t be great on rivers or streams. Cheers and thanks.

Nice pattern and very effective , I tie one similar but instead of pheasant tail for the abdomen and wing case I use a biot in its place . Also do them in tan and grey . Thanks for the video

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Great fly will try it here in Tasmania Australia in other colours as well

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Nice fly. I need a bigger variaty of colors for my pheasant tail. Or should I just dye them?

Hey Davie, have a question for you regarding varnish. Do you have any tips or tricks such as something to add to a thickened bottle to reduce viscosity? I really like the fly, especially the trick to use the pheasant tail as both the body and the wing case, thanks again!

Why do they get the name “Cruncher”?