Forgetting to purchase new tippet each season is an Opening Day ritual. Some fish slurps your offering, looks bigger than average, and you’re reduced to sweating bullets knowing 6X is more like 9X due to oxidation.
Only a visit to the dentist results in more prayer …
Many hundreds of years of discarded fishing tackle and a half century of old monofilament has us in the crosshairs of numerous organizations, all intent on cleaning up our act.
It’s logical that with monofilament and its shelf life of 600 years, somebody comes up with Bioline, a “green” monofilament/fluorocarbon alternative.
Bioline biofilament fishing line biodegrades in the environment in five years.. Further during years 2-5 it is significantly degraded permitting wildife to easily break free should accidental entanglement occur.
Guaranteed to decompose in only 5 years, which includes the two seasons your vest hung in the closet, and us fly fishermen will need to be extra diligent in changing out old tippet spools. Even the Bioline spool decomposes, so you’ll be reminded by the handful of oxidized powder in your vest pocket if you haven’t fished in a while.
It smells expensive – and we’re supposed to absorb the extra cost knowing we’ve done right by the environment.
Brownliner’s will save a ton of money as fluorocarbon tippet decomposes in six months in brown water – only slightly faster then our waders and boots.
I’ll be haunting all the closeout sales while the eco-friendly types chastise me for not being sensitive. I can take the heat – none of the stuff I’m walking in was made by Mother Nature…
For years I’ve traveled with my closest friends down to my old haunts in Florida. I’ve always tied fine Biminis for them using huge spools of Ande I picked up in World Wide Sportsman back when it was but a shack on the side of US1.
They generally lose every fish they hook, so does this mean I’m not as good as I thought I was?
No sir, it means you don’t like them as much as you used to ..
Merry Christmas and thanks for all the good reads!