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Neat dropshot weight tip
At the Fred Hall sports show in San Francisco yesterday, Sheldon Bright, a
local bass pro was giving a seminar and had a couple of tips for saving
money. One I liked best was to get a roll of pencil lead. We use it for
steelhead fishing and is a roll of lead that is about 1/8" in diameter. Get
some 1/8" surgical tubing and cut the tubing in short lenth and the pencil
lead in the length that will give you the weight you want. Put the line
through the surgical tubing, wet the weight and slip it into the tube. No
crimping of the line and is very snag proof. If it does snag, will slide
easily off the line. 3 cents as opposed to 30-85 cents.
Bill |
Calif
Jan 13
2005
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| Hmm, sounds like a decent Mojo weight replacement, too (infinite
weight possibilities). I can also imagine configurations that could
approximate the Lindy no-snag Carolina weights (for lighter C-rigs,
anyway). Thanks!
Jamie On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:52:21 GMT, "Calif Bill" |
Jamie
Jan 14
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| Pencil lead....? Surely you don't mean graphite? I wouldn't think that would
be heavy enough to use as a sinker. Can you find anything on the Internet
that explains what this is, what it looks like, and where to get it? Joe "Calif Bill" <bmckee.nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:p4CFd.5987$pZ4.2404@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
At the Fred Hall sports show in San Francisco yesterday, Sheldon Bright, a
local bass pro was giving a seminar and had a couple of tips for saving
money. One I liked best was to get a roll of pencil lead. We use it for
steelhead fishing and is a roll of lead that is about 1/8" in diameter. Get
some 1/8" surgical tubing and cut the tubing in short lenth and the pencil
lead in the length that will give you the weight you want. Put the line
through the surgical tubing, wet the weight and slip it into the tube. No
crimping of the line and is very snag proof. If it does snag, will slide
easily off the line. 3 cents as opposed to 30-85 cents.
Bill |
Joe
Jan 14
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| Solid lead that is round and comes in a roll.
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jhtml;jsessionid=YO3G4ZOCSAQRHTQSNOECCOOOCJVYWIWE?id=0019629118099a&navCount=0&cmCat=srchdx&cm_ven=srchdx&cm_ite=srchdx&_requestid=49625 Comes as both hollow and solid. Is available in 1/8, 3/16, 1/4" diameter
lead wire. Those of us that fish steelhead use it a lot. I think a Lindy
rig can use it also.
Bill |
Calif
Jan 15
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| .....are you talking common solder here, acid core or just alloyed plumbing |
Steve
Jan 14
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| Solid core plumbing solder would work fine. Acid core would not be good. |
Calif
Jan 16
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