For as long as I’ve been fishing, I’ve been guilty of polluting streams and banks with the little bits of monofilament that are left over when tying on a new fly or a new tippet. Of course, I would never leave a bird’s nest lying around, but properly disposing of the inch or two of clipped-off mono is a pain in the neck, and I confess I haven’t always done it.
I often thought that someone should invent a gadget that makes it easy to get rid of waste mono, and now someone has. His name is Ian White and these days, he’s a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Georgia, researching the regeneration of heart stems cells, but when he designed the monoMaster last year, he was still a medical
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