09-22-2012, 07:04 PM
flyfisher117:
I hope you are thoroughly drying your stuff for a couple three days before using it again. Note that felt soles, shoe laces, webbing type materials, leather, inside of boots, etc can still be damp deep inside the material while the material feels dry to the touch.
There is NO, NUNN, NADA easy simple quick universal method. Nothing will kill all the invasive species one needs to worry about.
Copper sulphate pentahydrate is quite mild chemically to your fishing equipment. But it is toxic to many plants and animals. It is used in ponds to kill algae and some plants. It has been tested to kill New Zealand Mudsnails also.
Copper is used in marine paints to counter act barnicals from growing on ship huals. It probably kill the other bugs that fish eat so you will want to rinse your equipment well if you use it. Copper is added some marine paints to counter act barnicals from growing on ship hulls.
Environmental organizations are no longer recommending any chemicals because of fears of chemical build up in streams and other water ways. I think they envision thousands upon thousands of people depositing small amounts of chemicals in the stream over eons.
Copper sulphate pentahydrate, 99% pure, can be located as a sewer root kill product in Hardware stores. Some cities and towns have taken to pressuring such stores to not stocking this type of root killer because it can cause problems with their sewer water purification plants especially with biological purification methods. At any rate you need to read all the warning labels about use of pesticides on the container.
This page has some info on using it to kill New Zealand Mudsnails and Dydimo:
http://flyline.com/environmental/nzms/
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I hope you are thoroughly drying your stuff for a couple three days before using it again. Note that felt soles, shoe laces, webbing type materials, leather, inside of boots, etc can still be damp deep inside the material while the material feels dry to the touch.
There is NO, NUNN, NADA easy simple quick universal method. Nothing will kill all the invasive species one needs to worry about.
Copper sulphate pentahydrate is quite mild chemically to your fishing equipment. But it is toxic to many plants and animals. It is used in ponds to kill algae and some plants. It has been tested to kill New Zealand Mudsnails also.
Copper is used in marine paints to counter act barnicals from growing on ship huals. It probably kill the other bugs that fish eat so you will want to rinse your equipment well if you use it. Copper is added some marine paints to counter act barnicals from growing on ship hulls.
Environmental organizations are no longer recommending any chemicals because of fears of chemical build up in streams and other water ways. I think they envision thousands upon thousands of people depositing small amounts of chemicals in the stream over eons.
Copper sulphate pentahydrate, 99% pure, can be located as a sewer root kill product in Hardware stores. Some cities and towns have taken to pressuring such stores to not stocking this type of root killer because it can cause problems with their sewer water purification plants especially with biological purification methods. At any rate you need to read all the warning labels about use of pesticides on the container.
This page has some info on using it to kill New Zealand Mudsnails and Dydimo:
http://flyline.com/environmental/nzms/
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