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?

None if you use heavy enough tippit that you don't leave it on the
brush and you take your trash home.

Big Dale

"Gene Cyprych" wrote in message
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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?


I find I lose very little flouro on the bottom, as I am more successful
getting the line out due to strength. If it does break, it tends to be at
the fly. The thing you have to worry about is your rod and reel. Make sure
to point the rod at the snag, and take the pressure off of the reel (without
having the line cut into your fingers).

I have problems with dries and fluoro as is seems to sink much faster,
creating more drag. Also when you lift your fly off of the water it tends
to drag the fly under (because it does sink) and the fly gets wet more
frequently.

Still prefer the fluoro in a stream where you are apt to run into larger
fish, I rarely lose one due to breaking the fluoro.

On 5/17/05 1:02 PM, in article
, "Big Dale"
wrote:

None if you use heavy enough tippit that you don't leave it on the
brush and you take your trash home.

Nice theory. You could also use rope and a boat anchor wrapped in carpet for
a fly, but the fish just might spot it, don't you think? There's always a
balance between getting a tippet small enough to fool wary fish and heavy
enough so it is unlikely to break off.


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FC has a 1/2 life of about a gazillion years and when I get a hang up
on the bottom

And mono has a half life of 3/4 of a gazillion years which is a matter
of no real pragmatic distinction regarding impact on the envronment.
With both - take your garbage with you off the stream or whatever you
are on. The fishing qualities of the two, however, are different.

DavidN

Hi Gene,

I think you should address the conventional crowd first. You know, those
spinning types.

One spin fisher can leave more line in a river than this entire news group.
They get snagged up and break off the entire works for yards. You get a good
snag going and it looks like a bush down there. Some people dive in the
river and pull out these wads for the lures.

I would be retired by now if fly fishers lost that many yards of FC in the
streams a year.

Those giant wads of mono in the rivers are not from fly fishers. Lets get
real here..............

We use 2 to 3 feet of tippet on the end of our leaders. When I get broke off
it is usually very near the fly.

As far as FC goes we do sell more every year. We still sell about 3 times as
much standard mono tippet.

Some of the best fly fishers and guides I know us it. Some are real cheap so
they must think it works.


Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA

Web site: www.kiene.com


"Gene Cyprych" wrote in message
oups.com...

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?