Flies and cross contamination?

[Northern]

I've been out of town, so hadn't been in my tying room for a while. Just walked in and observed that the big jar I use to check floatation has what is obviously an aquatic plant growing in it!

Before I left I had dropped a used fly in to check the fall rate of that design
I clean my kayak, my shoes, waders, etc... but I can't say I've ever thought to decontaminate used freshwater flies.

Thoughts? Something to worry about? Anyone have a fly decontamination procedure that won't mess up the fly?
I'm thinking maybe a UV-C chamber, or just extended, dry sunlight? Soapy water?

 

[Bonefish Jack]

Don’t be surprised if two men in black suits and sunglasses knock on your door

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Same stuff in Ballard Locks viewing windows....presumably everywhere and/or the algae that forms the slick rock snot on summer wades...

 

[krusty]

The first rule of fly cross-contamination is that you don't talk about fly cross-contamination....lest Idaho, Oregon, and Montana get an idea to start a flybox border inspection program funded by annual flybox inspection sticker purchases.

Comfort yourself with the assurance that waterfowl very competently contribute to that issue.....

 

[Matt B]

That looks to me like filamentous algae, a single cell organism that forms mats. It’s pretty ubiquitous. Not something I worry about. It seems to be able to form even in tap water if left standing. So it may or may not have come from your fly.

 

[DimeBrite]

Just add some rotenone

 

[Northern]

Just add some rotenone

Oh, c'mon, Tim - surely you know that algae are generally insensitive to rotenone because they have alternative pathways for oxidizing NADH2 in addition to Complex I

 

[Billy]

I would buy a goldfish

 

[krusty]

I would buy a goldfish

....and a bubbler treasure chest that opens and closes.