What is a Cruncher?

[michaelgmcgraw]

"Cruncher" Its a stillwater/ reservoir thing. See Trout fisherman magazine (U.K). A whole nother lingo in it's self.

[DUBBN]

https://www.google.com/search?q=crunche ... d=0CDYQsAQ

[kanutripr]

Which one of you is trying to bust a practical Joke? Don't you know the difference between a Flymph and a Cruncher? You especially MR. Willow should have notice that this entirely new and modern, exceptional fly design, extraordinary fish catcher fly is very different. OK! Just look at it. Really look at it!!!! The hackles are wound in the opposite direction. Now try to call that a Flymph you big babies.

Actually, what the hell are they saying? A Cruncher? Dumb A's. It's a FLYMPH! And there's a great website for learning how to tye and fish them or learn anything you want about them and their cousins Wet Flies. Just click on flymphforum.com

HAHAHAHAHA! Us girls really need a get together all ourselves....where's Kelly?

This is the problem with tying. EVERYONE is trying to reinvent the wheel!



Vicki

[willowhead]

a damn rose is a damn rose..................you dig?

[fflutterffly]

Funny story (OK may not funny) : I'm fast asleep last week and around 2:00AM my eyes pop open. For some reason the image of Gary Borger in his ascot had shaken me awake. He had been talking about Mayfly nymphs and how they have gills that run down their body and only one wing case. I got right out of bed and headed to my fly tying table. The image in my head was of a dry fly hook, thread running down to the bend, tying in a pheasant tail, then two strands of Ostrich, dubbing up 1/2 way, tying off again, cutting off the herl to flatten off the top, pulling over the remainder of the Pheasant, tying off, dubbing a head, tying off the wing case with the last bit of PH, flipping the fly over and clipping off the excess herl to flatten out the bottom. It looked good! I tied up three more and headed off to the water. Fish on all happy, came home and called the fly Capitulate.

Then it struck me, this can't be a fly that bloomed form my head like Venus from the sea. So I queried the Google gods an of course there on my screen were flies galore using Ostrich Herl for gills on the abdomen on nymphs. With that the question begs to be asked: Is there really any fly that can be original or all they all variants?

[willowhead]

Ariel.....your question(s) poses a myrid of answers..........(and don't get worried, i AINT gettin' long winded ).....you take (western) music for example. We only got 12 notes........now how many "original" things you gonna come up with, when you only got 12 notes? But, the thing is, NOT to get hung-up on the word....."original." That's only a word.....like Jazz.....and it means different things to different people.
What "it's" about, is that old simple fact that, "it's all in one's interpretation"..........on a standard OR an original.
All YOU gotta do, is figure out a way to get across the footlights.....you dig?

[fflutterffly]

I dig. And therefore nothing is original since all things are open to interpretation.

[hankaye]

Howdy All;

I'll tell ya'll something... new folk such as myself, would happily jump all over stuff like that,
were it not for the likes of you much more experienced tyers and fishers. Otherwise, less then knowledgeable me
would go skipping off across the minefields waving my hard earned $'s for them scoundrels to grab away from me...
Thank ya one an all...
hank

[DUBBN]

You know, we could be considered elitist snobs over this. I am too white trash to be considered a snob! Long live the CRUSHER!

[willowhead]

Ariel.....
that's one way to put it..........but actually i was not speakin' on the "openess" of interpretation..........i was refering to the uniquenesss of each individual's interpretation thereof..................ie: it's what you DO with those 12 notes...........dig?
you really want original........try world peace.....no hunger in the world.....no disease.....no crime.....no politicians.