Just a few weeks in the past I reported on the fur ban that’s on ballots in Denver for this upcoming election. On the time there was quite a lot of hand-wringing over the ban’s implications for fly anglers, since fur and feathers are central to tying the flies we use for fishing. However it was unclear whether or not the ban would affect fly fishing, particularly since Boulder, Colorado has had an analogous ban in place for a number of years now.
In keeping with Cameron Evans from Outdoor Life, the Denver fur ban is crafted otherwise than the ban in Boulder, as fly retailers nonetheless function and promote flies inside that metropolis. The Denver ban, in keeping with Evans, “does permit for ‘restricted exceptions to the prohibition,’” and the “ban’s proponents have clarified with Outside Life that the pure fur supplies used for flies and lures wouldn’t be amongst these exceptions.”
The fur ban is spearheaded by Professional-Animal Future, an animal rights activist group. Natalie Fulton, a spokesperson for that group, instructed Outside Life that “fly fishermen…simply have to adapt” if the ban takes impact.
“There’s loads of different supplies for fly fishermen,” Fulton is quoted as saying in Outside Life. “A variety of them don’t use fur, so this is able to encourage them to maneuver in a extra moral path.”
Fulton additionally stated her group desires to see all fur banned, and other people pressured to make use of alternate options.
The problem with the choice choices is that they’re typically plastic-based, which isn’t wholesome for our fish or fisheries. And never all different fly tying supplies act and behave in the best way actual elk hair does, for instance.
There’s a lot extra that might be impacted by this ban, similar to conservation efforts, and Evans does a beautiful job detailing all of that within the Outside Life piece. You’ll be able to learn it in full here.
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