Tying the Olive Quilled Cruncher with Davie McPhail. 

Hi Stuart, I would happily fish this fly anywhere on the cast as it will still fish well and on both lines that you mentioned. Slow figure of eight and with an odd twitch is a good all round retrieve but I would also try other methods to just keeping in touch with it as I would do this with almost all the fiies I fish like this..Many thanks again for the kind words... All the very best Davie..

Excellent Davie may fish this with a Diawl Bach aswell to take advantage of the slow retrieve working both fly's and occasional twitch as you say ,good methodology statement "keeping in touch with the fly" many thanks indeed

Hi Jcscoob, I'm sure the ice cream van waits until I'm filming to come round just to annoy me but he does sell a good ice cream which makes up for it...ATB Davie..

Hi Allan McClenaghan, You need to find the best eyes to get a good golden olive and sunburst so pick the one's which have the lightest coloured quills... All the very best Davie

Dave I have synthetic qills they look ok when finished I'm going to try polish qills

Hi Allan McClenaghan, Yes it's worthwhile dying the whole feathers especially if you are tying these flies... All the very best Davie

Hi Rene Kusk Christensen, I used Peacock Quill on the body which comes from the eye of the Peacock, I remove the fine herl using bleach...I have attached a link to how I do this for you to see.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kP1CDXL2SEY.html All the very best Davie..

Tx