responsible flyfisherman?

Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

steve wrote:
Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

But ... it's INVISIBLE! :-)

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"steve" wrote in message
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Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

Not a problem, real flyfisher folk never throw anything away..

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"Skwala" wrote:


"steve" wrote in message
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Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

Not a problem, real flyfisher folk never throw anything away..

Do flyfisherman have their line snapped off by rock, big fish, etc? Your
line breaks, your line is going to be in the water (snagging fish)
basically forever.

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rw wrote:

steve wrote:
Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

But ... it's INVISIBLE! :-)

Which makes things WORSE. all that invisible line for fish to get
snapped up in

"steve" wrote in message
...
Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

do you know a girl named leah lidtorf?

wayno

"steve" wrote in message
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In article ,
rw wrote:

steve wrote:
Fly fisherman usually pride themselves on their environmental
responsibility. Yet flourocarbin will basically NEVER decompose. It
seems preety environmentally irresponsible to use.

What are people's opinions on this?

But ... it's INVISIBLE! :-)

Which makes things WORSE. all that invisible line for fish to get
snapped up in

It'd be pretty hard for a fish to get 'snapped up in' little 1/2 to 1-inch
pieces of mono. I haul out lots more mono from spincasters's birdsnests than
I ever leave behind.

--riverman

Steve writes:

Do flyfisherman have their line snapped off by rock, big fish, etc? Your
line breaks, your line is going to be in the water (snagging fish)
basically forever.

Yes, I've lost 18 - 24 of FC, but I have never seen a fish tangled in it, and I
do a helluva lot of fishing and catching. FC also degrades, perhaps not as
fast as mono, but it does degrade. You should be more concerned over spin
fishers dumping tangled bird's nests in the water. If you want to tilt at
windmills, go after the bait chuckers who leave all kinds of garbage on the
shore/water, including tons of mono.
Dave

http://hometown.aol.com/davplac/myhomepage/index.html

"riverman" wrote in message
It'd be pretty hard for a fish to get 'snapped up in' little 1/2 to 1-inch
pieces of mono. I haul out lots more mono from spincasters's birdsnests
than
I ever leave behind.

Likewise. Sure, I break off a few fish, but very, very rarely lose a
significant length of tippet (the Salmon River notwithstanding). Like
Myron, I recover far more mono, hooks, lead, and just plain garbage than I
lose on a typical trip.

On the Salmon River (NY), I do frequently lose 18-24" of FC tippet on
larger fish, but just as my negative environmental impact is greater, so is
my net positive. I guarantee I've pulled more spin casting bull**** out of
that river than every other place I've fished combined. Between the
incredible fishing pressure that place receives and the similarly incredible
disregard for the river, the amount of discarded 30# mono in the bottom of
that river must be amazing. I regret my small contributions, but it's a
small drop in a very big bucket.

Joe F.

"Greg Pavlov" wrote in message
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On 03 Nov 2003 12:57:26 GMT, irate (Dave LaCourse)
wrote:

Steve writes:

Do flyfisherman have their line snapped off by rock, big fish, etc? Your
line breaks, your line is going to be in the water (snagging fish)
basically forever.

Yes, I've lost 18 - 24 of FC, but I have never seen a fish tangled in it,
and I
do a helluva lot of fishing and catching. FC also degrades, perhaps not
as
fast as mono, but it does degrade. You should be more concerned over
spin
fishers dumping tangled bird's nests in the water. If you want to tilt
at
windmills, go after the bait chuckers who leave all kinds of garbage on
the
shore/water, including tons of mono.
Dave


It's Someone Else's Problem, eh ?


It's all our problem, and I think Dave would agree on this, but he has a
point. I've personally retreived hundred times as much monofilament than I
ever lost in nature. And yes, spin and bait fishermen have been mostly
responsible, unless some flyfisherman has found a way of using 30 yard
tippets. I also think that the environment is something most fly fishermen
care for. There is a saying among fly fishermen in Sweden: Bring anything
you want on your trip but leave only foot prints behind.

/Roger