Wine cork Popper Flies

[Adam Harris]

I'm looking at trying my hand at tying some of these.  Looking for hints and links to helpful YouTube videos.  I've got plenty of corks (for now), but wanted to reach out to y'all before i started tying.

[Adam Harris]

I would add, I'd like to get my materials from District Angling mostly.  

[Miles]

In my experience, the quality of wine corks varies greatly. Many are too crumbly to be decent fly material, or have inconvenient voids. So cork selection is the most important step.

After that, you need the tools to shape the cork. I have seen folks improvise a lathe from a power drill or rotary tool to get a round shape. If you're headed to District Angling, you can stop by Cherrydale Hardware to see if they have Dragon Skin or something similar for rough shaping.

Another way to do it with slices of cork, a la the Gerbubble Bug (google 'cork Gerbubble Bug').

Have fun!

Miles

[Kevin KB]

Talking to Chuck  and William, before Chuck passed away,  you should use new corks.   You can frequently get them from Michael's or anywhere that sells wine making supplies.

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[Josh Cohn]

I had success using a dremel on artificial corks from cheap Trader Joe's wine, natural cork works too, but is more likely to split--had some old woodglue that helped. Sandpaper is fine too if your not doing much shaping, all i did was make a concave front though so nothing fancy..

[namfos]

William uses new composite corks

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[vladimir polivanov]

I have very limited experience tying cork bugs/poppers. Corks from champagne/prosecco bottles seem to work well. 

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[Carl Z.]

If you're willing to coat them with epoxy, balsa works really well.   Small stoppers from https://www.jelinek.com/  are what Walt used to use for Walt's poppers.

Carl

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[D. Walker]

I bought new corks from michaels

I rough shaped them with a Dremel 

Then i put it in the drill.... and smoothed the shape out with sandpaper

made the slit with a razor blade (i heated the razor blade with a lighter, not really sure why)