Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[midger]

Be careful all you fumed silica users, Frog's Fanny, Loon dust, or whatever else dry powder, dry fly fishers use. You can come down with this dreaded disease. It's best if you just stick to chucking streamers and dredging with nymphs, eh?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'" A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.

I knew there was a good reason to prefer subsurface fishing.

[fly addict]

Be careful all you fumed silica users, Frog's Fanny, Loon dust, or whatever else dry powder, dry fly fishers use. You can come down with this dreaded disease. It's best if you just stick to chucking streamers and dredging with nymphs, eh?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.'" A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.

I knew there was a good reason to prefer subsurface fishing.

Thanks for the warning. I sure don't won't to get that disease. I already have, Ican'tseetheflyanymorewhenitsonthewater disease. It's caused by my eyes getting old and not seeing as well as they used too! Or its contagious and I think I got it from fishing with Eric!

Mark

[Rockstar Fisherman]

Only a guy with an Avatar name like Midger would come up with this fictious word

[midger]

Actually, it's not fictional. Google it up.

[Rockstar Fisherman]

Actually, it's not fictional. Google it up.

So I now have to ask, how the * did you stumble across this

[midger]

Actually I was reading an article while I was in Idaho and it talkes about a lung disease called silicosis and it gave the full name. I thought, hey, we sometimes use silica powder for drying our flies and I would assume inhaling it would lead to the same ultimate disease. I go out of my way to insure I don't inhale. I follow Clinton's advice.

[Papasequoia]

You know, I was just the other day filling my regular bottle and my refill bottle that I bring with me as a backup from the big bag that they send that they send the stuff in and it was floating everywhere. My desktop got covered in it, and I'm sure I inhaled some of it. I was wondering as I was refilling if it was dangerous stuff, now I know. I don't know how much you need to inhale, but I think I'll fill the bottles outside on a calm day next time and wear a kerchief. Ya never know.

[midger]

...So I now have to ask, how the * did you stumble across this

I'm wondering (assuming Midger had this kind of free time on his hands), why he wasn't out dredging heavy meat through limpid pools instead of dreaming up something like this to write about? My, my... the things that must go through a sub-surface fisherman's mind when he's not on the water... Maybe there's a long scientific name for that problem, too...

Of course there is. <oops>

[Bernard]

I always was a tad leery of the wafts of the powder esp. if I chose to blow it off my fly versus false cast it off. On a few recent jaunts, due to tight time constraints, I'd often skip floatant altogether and felt an odd sense of freedom. Hmmm but I live in constant quandry about a million things and I must admit that I love them thar fly drying products. I guess just be careful how much of this stuff you snort.
B

p.s. Midger, I have been tying micro-buggers lately inspired by some of the ones you have shown me.

[FlyinFish]

Worth the risk!

[briansII]

I hear Frog's Fanny was originally a treatment for Swamp Butt....hence the name..........

Can anybody confirm this? (edit)

briansII

[fancyboy]

Not to belittle the importance of each of your health, however imagine what happens to the river when you dump that stuff in it (whether you inhale it or not.) My understanding is the liquid stuff is equally bad for the environment. Tie those flies with naturally water resistant materials and false cast often.

[Benny]

Not to belittle the importance of each of your health, however imagine what happens to the river when you dump that stuff in it (whether you inhale it or not.) My understanding is the liquid stuff is equally bad for the environment. Tie those flies with naturally water resistant materials and false cast often.

A better solution would be to fish nymphs and streamers, and catch more fish

[midger]

Not to belittle the importance of each of your health, however imagine what happens to the river when you dump that stuff in it (whether you inhale it or not.) My understanding is the liquid stuff is equally bad for the environment. Tie those flies with naturally water resistant materials and false cast often.

A better solution would be to fish nymphs and streamers, and catch more fish

Very true Benny, but the best for the environment is if we didn't even travel the roads to the fishing spots (saving fuels/reducing hydrocarbon pollution/not impacting the environment with truck tracks), didn't wade in the streams to keep from crushing aquatic insect life, didn't hook fish as we all know there is some % of ones that die even using C & R, yada, yada..........

Not much chance of this, so, walk softly, pick up your trash, and try to be a environmentally aware as we can when in the trout's home.

[briansII]

Not to belittle the importance of each of your health, however imagine what happens to the river when you dump that stuff in it (whether you inhale it or not.) My understanding is the liquid stuff is equally bad for the environment. Tie those flies with naturally water resistant materials and false cast often.

A better solution would be to fish nymphs and streamers, and catch more fish

Very true Benny, but the best for the environment is if we didn't even travel the roads to the fishing spots (saving fuels/reducing hydrocarbon pollution/not impacting the environment with truck tracks), didn't wade in the streams to keep from crushing aquatic insect life, didn't hook fish as we all know there is some % of ones that die even using C & R, yada, yada..........

Not much chance of this, so, walk softly, pick up your trash, and try to be a environmentally aware as we can when in the trout's home.

...and let's not forget greenhouse gases. Let's keep the fiber, fried eggs, and beer to a minimum.

briansII