On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:55:07 -0700, "William Noble"
wrote:



We own a fishing tackle store here in South Africa - the price of
lead here too has rocketed - even here the lead is being sent to China
from the scrap merchants - not good for sinker prices !!!! Soon it
wont only be Bismuth sinkers that are outrageously priced !!!

Tim

Then you'll have to go with tungsten, or maybe iridium... You can get
pure tungsten for three dollars an ounce, and it's about 75% heavier than
lead! But I guess even with lead's price increase, it's still much cheaper
than tungsten. Iridium is almost double the density of pure lead, but an
ounce of iridium would be over seven hundred dollars. You'd have to be
one wildly successful fisherman to justify iridium sinkers...


and what is wrong with using a rock for a sinker? they are still free


A lot of carbide inserts come with a hole molded in them to help when
attaching to the line :-)

Mark Rand
RTFM