You may have seen the story I published recently on Fish & Fly regarding the upcoming ban in New Zealand on felt soled wading boots, designed to help stop the spread of problematic waterborne micro-organisms. It is good to see a Fish & Game organisation taking a positive stand against such problems and with the advent of new 'sticky soles' and other manufacturing breakthroughs in boot technology, the end of the felt era should not be a problem.
Yesterday I put in an email to the Environment Agency in the UK to see if they have any comment on this and what plans if any they may have for the future. Today I got the standard response that I should receive a reply within 10 days so I'll guess I'll have to wait and see. With more and more fisheries, coarse in particular, making net dipping mandatory to help stop the spread of disease, perhaps this is an area that should be looked at before we find we have a problem on wild trout rivers for instance that we were not prepared for.
Just a thought!
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