dan hall
05-27-2008, 12:53 PM
Sorry for all the posts ... can you tell i'm upset 'bout this problem ;)
These are the steps I'm going to follow based upon the previous data shared. Hope this helps someone.
Come to find out didymo is easy to kill. From looking at the previous post sites I come away with the following thoughts;
• Treat every fresh water body as if it has didymo. So I need to disinfect each time I go to a different body of water and at the end of day.
• Eliminate absorptive items. Felt soled wading boots take an excessive amount of effort to disinfect. Use my hard-rubber soled wading boots only and save the felt soled for wading in the saltwater. How many times have you lost flies from your sheep patch? I throw mine away and pinned a piece of ripple foam from an old fly box.
• Reduce hard to clean/soak areas. I have breathable waders with built-in gravel guards. With prior waders w/o this guard I’ve forgotten to bring wrap-around guards so went wading without any. Hmm worked fine. So I cut those built-in gravel guards off!
• If possible try to stay in one body of water
• If possible try to fish from upper-most stretches of a water fishing downstream.
• Reduce the amount of items you get wet, this will reduce the amount to disinfect. Can’t count how many time I waded up to my arm-pits getting my fly-vest/boxes all wet….no more. Hope I can remember to roll-up my sleeves before reaching down for that hung-up fly..
Here’s my chosen disinfect process (5% solution of Palmolive or NapiSan soak for at least 1 minute). I did a dry-run of this in the yard. Below is my field process with some lame attempts at humor … :) Items needed, 5 gallon bucket with lid, plastic trash bag, Palmolive or NapiSan with ‘measuring’ device.
• Done with fishing this body of water time time to disinfect. Hmm blackflies are swarming lite-up that cigar…
• Grab my 5gallon bucket. It has a sharpie pen level mark at 3 gallons (12qts). Go back to the water and fill it up to that level being careful NOT to get any algae or other debris.
• Back at car make up my 5% solution (by volume). Hmm area figured for that amount I need about 0.6 qt or ~2.4 cups. That’s about 20oz and my container of Palmolive is 25 fl oz. Guess I pour the entire container of dishwashing soap into the 3 gallons .. makes it easy (Note to self, pick-up a replacement container for back home else wife may have nutty, trump card if forget tell her it beats putting my boots in the freezer).
• Grab a stick. Stir the concoction till well mixed.
• Okay itemize the contaminated pieces then act. Clip my fly off and attach to ripple foam. Hawk that baby in bucket ….hmm it floats. Take off my reel, grab the foam and sink it with the reel. Bingo.
• Take fly rod and put handle/reel seat into bucket. Base of tip section too ferrule first.
• Take off my wading boots and waders. Wow I wished I didn’t wait so long to pee… Put other shoes on. Take patch/reel/rod out of bucket. Take my hand and rub solution on remainder of rod. Place patch/reel/rod in trunk.
• For my bucket both boots can be submerged completed at the same time. Lightly clack them together w/o getting any water/crap on you. Put boots in bucket holding them down for at least 2 minutes. Make sure laces are saturated and move them around somewhat. After 2, take them out and put them aside (Note to self where did I put them, don’t leave them behind…)
• Take the waders. Hmm mine have neoprene booties how to handle this? I put them both in the bucket and worked the booties trying to get solution saturated into the entire ~3-5mm thickness. Ring-it, squeeze-it like a sponge. After about a minute of this take your boots and place it on the booties to completely cover all neoprene material to just above. Let set for 5 minutes.
• Lastly work your waders down into solution. Take boots out. Since these waders don’t leak I don’t need to soak the insides. Work the waders down into solution depending upon how far its contaminated. Once there hold all parts of wader submerged for 2 minutes.
• Take them out and either hand up to dry or aside.
• Put lid on bucket as this solution can be used for the entire day. Place in plastic bag along with the waders and boots.
• Make sure I didn’t leave anything behind.
Bonus the cigar is still going after all this and I don’t smell fishy … not that I usually catch anything. So going forward to pack for my next fishing trip all those items get replenished and put in the bucket and capped with lid, my ‘death to didymo’ kit.
Concerns:
• I think the weakest link here is the neoprene booties. In the readings on felt soled booties the goal is to get complete saturation into entire felt, a difficult-time consuming task. I hope the above is entirely soaking through the neoprene?
• Is all Palmolive products as effective?
• I ordered (online) some NapiSan as I like the idea of a know chemical composition. Seems nappy’s are a NZ term for cloth diapers and could not find this product here in NH. Not sure if OxyClean is same …
• Is using (potentially contaminated) stream water okay?
These are the steps I'm going to follow based upon the previous data shared. Hope this helps someone.
Come to find out didymo is easy to kill. From looking at the previous post sites I come away with the following thoughts;
• Treat every fresh water body as if it has didymo. So I need to disinfect each time I go to a different body of water and at the end of day.
• Eliminate absorptive items. Felt soled wading boots take an excessive amount of effort to disinfect. Use my hard-rubber soled wading boots only and save the felt soled for wading in the saltwater. How many times have you lost flies from your sheep patch? I throw mine away and pinned a piece of ripple foam from an old fly box.
• Reduce hard to clean/soak areas. I have breathable waders with built-in gravel guards. With prior waders w/o this guard I’ve forgotten to bring wrap-around guards so went wading without any. Hmm worked fine. So I cut those built-in gravel guards off!
• If possible try to stay in one body of water
• If possible try to fish from upper-most stretches of a water fishing downstream.
• Reduce the amount of items you get wet, this will reduce the amount to disinfect. Can’t count how many time I waded up to my arm-pits getting my fly-vest/boxes all wet….no more. Hope I can remember to roll-up my sleeves before reaching down for that hung-up fly..
Here’s my chosen disinfect process (5% solution of Palmolive or NapiSan soak for at least 1 minute). I did a dry-run of this in the yard. Below is my field process with some lame attempts at humor … :) Items needed, 5 gallon bucket with lid, plastic trash bag, Palmolive or NapiSan with ‘measuring’ device.
• Done with fishing this body of water time time to disinfect. Hmm blackflies are swarming lite-up that cigar…
• Grab my 5gallon bucket. It has a sharpie pen level mark at 3 gallons (12qts). Go back to the water and fill it up to that level being careful NOT to get any algae or other debris.
• Back at car make up my 5% solution (by volume). Hmm area figured for that amount I need about 0.6 qt or ~2.4 cups. That’s about 20oz and my container of Palmolive is 25 fl oz. Guess I pour the entire container of dishwashing soap into the 3 gallons .. makes it easy (Note to self, pick-up a replacement container for back home else wife may have nutty, trump card if forget tell her it beats putting my boots in the freezer).
• Grab a stick. Stir the concoction till well mixed.
• Okay itemize the contaminated pieces then act. Clip my fly off and attach to ripple foam. Hawk that baby in bucket ….hmm it floats. Take off my reel, grab the foam and sink it with the reel. Bingo.
• Take fly rod and put handle/reel seat into bucket. Base of tip section too ferrule first.
• Take off my wading boots and waders. Wow I wished I didn’t wait so long to pee… Put other shoes on. Take patch/reel/rod out of bucket. Take my hand and rub solution on remainder of rod. Place patch/reel/rod in trunk.
• For my bucket both boots can be submerged completed at the same time. Lightly clack them together w/o getting any water/crap on you. Put boots in bucket holding them down for at least 2 minutes. Make sure laces are saturated and move them around somewhat. After 2, take them out and put them aside (Note to self where did I put them, don’t leave them behind…)
• Take the waders. Hmm mine have neoprene booties how to handle this? I put them both in the bucket and worked the booties trying to get solution saturated into the entire ~3-5mm thickness. Ring-it, squeeze-it like a sponge. After about a minute of this take your boots and place it on the booties to completely cover all neoprene material to just above. Let set for 5 minutes.
• Lastly work your waders down into solution. Take boots out. Since these waders don’t leak I don’t need to soak the insides. Work the waders down into solution depending upon how far its contaminated. Once there hold all parts of wader submerged for 2 minutes.
• Take them out and either hand up to dry or aside.
• Put lid on bucket as this solution can be used for the entire day. Place in plastic bag along with the waders and boots.
• Make sure I didn’t leave anything behind.
Bonus the cigar is still going after all this and I don’t smell fishy … not that I usually catch anything. So going forward to pack for my next fishing trip all those items get replenished and put in the bucket and capped with lid, my ‘death to didymo’ kit.
Concerns:
• I think the weakest link here is the neoprene booties. In the readings on felt soled booties the goal is to get complete saturation into entire felt, a difficult-time consuming task. I hope the above is entirely soaking through the neoprene?
• Is all Palmolive products as effective?
• I ordered (online) some NapiSan as I like the idea of a know chemical composition. Seems nappy’s are a NZ term for cloth diapers and could not find this product here in NH. Not sure if OxyClean is same …
• Is using (potentially contaminated) stream water okay?