Response to ‘Preventable eye injuries while fly fishing’

Sir,

We thank Mr Finlay¹ for drawing your readers attention to the inherent dangers of Spey casting while fly fishing, and indeed the general danger to the eye from any form of fishing, from his own personal experience. It is interesting to note that injuries from fishing accounted for 1% of all those reported injuries in the 2009 Scottish Ocular Trauma Study (unpublished data) and 1.7% in the 1992 Scottish Ocular Trauma Study.²

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