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Old May 17th, 2005, 04:51 PM
Gene Cyprych
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Default Fluorocarbon versus...mono and affect on environment

This may have been discussed before in this venue but what is the
conventional "take" on using flourocarbon tippet instead of mono? FC
has a 1/2 life of about a gazillion years and when I get a hang up on
the bottom, I wonder what the long term implications are for leaving a
5 foot piece of FC in the stream. Multiply that by the number of
angling days and will there be a problem?

Looking through the catalogs I see a lot of FC and little else. Is that
where the industry is going? Any thoughts on environmental impact? Use?