Using UV Cure Resins

[@guysmiley1242]

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[@benjaminkirk9477]

Nice vid

[@bombingbloke]

I hate this trend in fly tying! How about just using natural materials so when you loose a fly you dont polute the nature?

[@mikewest712]

You talkin bout horse seaman?

[@GeorgeSemel]

Yeah, I am sure you never drove a car, mowed a lawn, bought a fly line in the last 60 years, or when out and shoot some ducks, pheasants or other upland game, never mind head shooting that squirrel for the tail and pelt. Then going out in the fall to shoot deer, elk, moose caribou with some lead bullets! I will not even get into King Chickens carbon footprint so that we have feathers to tie on a hook that is made from steel made from Iron ore then made into a hook in Japan then shipped by ship to the states then shipped again to a store near you by truck. or the internet and then delivered to your house be FedEx or UPS or USPS. I am also sure that you never have flown anywhere on an airplane or helicopter. Yep, I agree with you 100% if you never did any of these things. UV resins are widely used in medicine. Surgery and dentistry among other things. My guess it got into fly tying because some doctor didn't have time to wait for his surf candies to cure using epoxy! Our lives are so much cleaner and healthier because of oil and all its uses. The Era before oil was really polluted and filthy

[@AnonymousOtters]

Most of the fishing threads are synthetic. You want to stop using those too? How about all of the pearlescent dubbing and flash? Rubber legs and bodies? Head cement? Floatant? Pretty sure the typical household who has access to recycling throws away more recycleable stuff in the trash in a year than the typical fly fisherman will lose on the river in a lifetime.

[@AnonymousOtters]

I don't suppose you have any facts to show that the minuscule amount of UV cured resin presents any kind of ecological issue?

[@bombingbloke]

@@GeorgeSemelYes, i try to travel by train, use non lead bullets and eat meat only a few times a weak but Co2 emmisions and epoxy use in surgery is not the same as using plastic and epoxy for flies with the chance of loosing it in nature. It is so easy to point to others and when someone has a critic look at what they do. This is whats wrong with the fishing industry. Using all kinds of toxic materials without thinking about nature. Have you ever looked into how toxic and persistent fluor carbon line is?