Fishermen have always put catching far above creature comforts as it makes the story twice worthy of the retelling.
Breathable waders will be jettisoned in favor of the new “mummified” look – a return to leggings and the garb of yesteryear.
Why? Because you’ll have the scent of a million smashed caddis tucked in the glove box – and at the first hint of dampness, you’ll skip gleefully back to the car to swathe yourself in “Sedge” tape, which you’ve been buying at Costco by the gross.
“I picture it as sort of a wet Band-Aid, maybe used internally in surgery, like using a piece of tape to close an incision as opposed to sutures,” said Stewart, an associate professor of bioengineering, in a news statement. “Gluing things together underwater is not easy. Have you ever tried to put a Band-Aid on in the shower? This insect has been doing this for 150 million to 200 million years.”
Our pal the Caddis has been spinning a hot commodity all these years, and is liable to put a dent in sales of duct tape.
Plumbers will have to hew through Gordian knots of Sedge tape enroute to leaking faucets and cracked toilets, as decades of plumbing “honey-do’s” were neutralized by petulant husbands and their ever expanding application of Brachycentrus.
…and it may solve the invasive issue completely. We can jettison those slippery rubber soles in favor of “Spider-man” brogues; able to walk straight up a damp boulder or waterfall – and anything living that hitches a ride can’t get off, so “clean, dry, inspect” becomes “inspect, laugh, use putty knife.”
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Were they not also called “puttees”?
Can’t you just imagine what a hard time Stewart and his partner had doing all that research on the the Provo? I might have been on the water all the time fly rod in hand and dip net in back pocket!
You get a gold star.