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burke | Dressed Irons


23
Apr 12

Another Use for Wine

So, the doctors these days say that a glass of wine a day is good for the health. The right doctor might even tell you two glasses are even better. And, being the good patient you are you have your glass of wine everyday. Each bottle you open you take a look at the "cork" and wonder how you can use it in your fly tying to catch some nice Largemouth Bass or Northern Pike.
 
Our good friend Jr. Burke decided to take a cork or two to the bench and find out just what he could do. Here is what he came up with. This is a BIG fly for BIG fish. Nothing less than a 10 weight is going to cast this behemoth. He said he knows the perfect pike lake to try this out on this summer. Keep an eye on Dressed Irons for more Wine Cork flies throughout the summer.
 
Wine Cork Popper Wine Cork Popper
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Wine Cork Popper

06
Mar 12

Fly Tying at BSTS

I recently published some excellent fly tying photos from our time at the 58th annual Boat, sport and Travel Show (BSTS). Since our main page is a news section and these photos will eventually get pushed down and off of the page I published them here on Dressed Irons as a gallery. Now you can come back to them as often and for as long as you like.
 
We had a great time at the show and the number of people who came by our booth to tie flies was more than we ever had before. Judging from the number of people that hung around watching the fly tying tie and asked questions there are more people in the Indianapolis area that tie flies or want to tie flies than I ever imagined. 
 
We would like to thank the following people for tying flies during the show and adding so much to the show.
 
Cecil Guidry
Rex Phillips
Reggie Alexander
John "Junior" Burke
John Clanton
Gary Krebs
Dustin Harley
Kevin Morlock
 
Derrick and I also did a fair bit of tying but there will be other posts about that.

- Enjoy