This season's most essential piece of fly-fishing gear
The dirt-cheap wonder-tool any angler can use to become legendary.
There's one must-have tool for every angler headed to the river or lake to fly-fish this season. One you don't want to leave home without.
It's not a fancy set of nippers, or knot-tying tool, or a new tippet holder.
Ta-da! It's a handy-dandy trash grabber:
Garbage grabber, garbage glomper, trash tongs, trash picker: Whatever you call it, this is this season's must-have fly-fishing accessory.
(Aside: I like glomper, because what even is glomping? It feels like a made-up word, a portmanteau of glom and chomp. It suggests the claw of the grabber is a set of jaws. The jaws go glomp glomp glomp. Is it made up? Has anyone heard it before? Where did it come from? I can't figure that out.)
Why is a trash grabber the most important fly-fishing tool? Not because it'll help you fish. It's this seasons hip, must-have accessory so you can pick up trash at your fishing spots. Because they'll be visited by fewer official trash-picker-uppers, and just the same amount of nitwits who litter.
