A different kind of dross?

Just this morning after reading Tracy & James’ FP, I saw a long discussion about getting eyes to stay on gamechangers. The number of people saying superglue was astounding, especially given the person asking for advice was complaining about superglue not working. Superglue will keep the eyes on a fly, just as long as you never actually fish with it. Anyone who says they just use superglue and the eyes stay on is lying. Maybe it's the name that tricks people into thinking it's super? Maybe it's industry people who want to keep selling Zap at a markup in their fly shop? I also see this with jigging people talking about CA glue for the whipping on their assist hooks, but at least for them it's not really holding anything and is just a coating.. But still. 

 Then of course there were the "eyes don't matter, they just catch fishermen"  this is a debate that will never be settled. Except for one thing. Eyes affect how a fly swims, it doesn't matter if the fish is eating the fly because it sees the eye or not. If you lose an eye you suddenly have a plane and weight on one side of the fly and not the other. Opinion doesn't matter on this, it impact how the fly swims, the laws of physics do apply to flies - regardless of the opinions of some guy on Facebook.  Even if a fish eats a fly with one eye, you can't control and replicate the one eyed, broken head reliably. 

 Last week I had a bit of a discussion (argument) with someone about indicators and drag & drop presentations for carp. It was pretty interesting how unreceptive he was to my opinion - that indicators cost fish when carp fishing with flies. Even though I could probably have expressed myself better, I doubt it would have made a difference.  He became quite patronizing which amused me as I've averaged about 100 days a year on carp for about 17 years, including guiding and while he wanted to put me down by talking about me not understanding situationality, he doesn't understand that mechanics of carp feeding are not situational and have been studied by biologists in the employ of match and specimen angling tackle manufacturers. 

 I suspect a lot of it is down to ego, he works for a shop crew that's created their own online fan club, an echo chamber of people who believe them and reinforce them when they say how great they are. I've seen it before when others have oI encountered a few of them because I'd contradicted their idol. Essentially it seemed to be because he's a "superstar" and I'm not a famous American angler.  It doesn't matter that my bonafides are basically at least as qualifying as his - actually more so when it comes to carp - because the speaker is more important than the message. The problem with this, and highly produced videos that contain little useful information, is that people who are starting out or learning something new will believe them over others.   With casting competition there is at least a measurable metric and you can’t take several pictures of the same cast, write up an article for a magazine or make a video of a good day and pass it off as the norm- the competition results will always find it out.