Hard fing tackle: Man I live in Carlsbad nm and all the weights and stuff is gone anyone know of anyone selling weights it like gold right now with coronavirus crap is gone...

Paul britton Loc: Carlsbad nm

Man I live in Carlsbad nm and all the weights and stuff is gone anyone know of anyone selling weights it like gold right now with coronavirus crap is gone

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Paul britton wrote:

Man I live in Carlsbad nm and all the weights and stuff is gone anyone know of anyone selling weights it like gold right now with coronavirus crap is gone

Are you talking sinkers?

Jeremy Loc: America

get a little concrete drill and drill rocks. water fillable bobbers?

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Hoss: Have you thought of going to your local tire shop and buying some of their discarded wheel weights and melting them down and making your own? Just Sayin...RJS

Jeremy Loc: America

yeah those things that kids used to take of your wheels and then you wondered why car vibrated. can make slinkies too with parachute cord and steel or lead bbs

Paul britton Loc: Carlsbad nm

Robert J Samples wrote:

Hoss: Have you thought of going to your local tire shop and buying some of their discarded wheel weights and melting them down and making your own? Just Sayin...RJS

That's good idea may try that

Paul britton Loc: Carlsbad nm

Jeremy wrote:

get a little concrete drill and drill rocks. water fillable bobbers?

Ya may try that also

Paul britton Loc: Carlsbad nm

flyguy wrote:

Are you talking sinkers?

Yes

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

As a kid we never bought any sinkers, or weights. Some we used by digging a hole in the ground, and when we got down to the clay, would create a cone shaped hole, put a piece of copper wire shaped in a loop and stuck in the bottom and then would pour maybe a dozen at once.

The other was using either a tea spoon or table spoon and making spoon shaped weights, and when the metal had cooled, drilled a hole in the thin end. Works great. Just Sayin...RJS

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

Paul britton wrote:

Man I live in Carlsbad nm and all the weights and stuff is gone anyone know of anyone selling weights it like gold right now with coronavirus crap is gone

same where i live

Paul britton Loc: Carlsbad nm

Robert J Samples wrote:

As a kid we never bought any sinkers, or weights. Some we used by digging a hole in the ground, and when we got down to the clay, would create a cone shaped hole, put a piece of copper wire shaped in a loop and stuck in the bottom and then would pour maybe a dozen at once.

The other was using either a tea spoon or table spoon and making spoon shaped weights, and when the metal had cooled, drilled a hole in the thin end. Works great. Just Sayin...RJS

That sounds like good idea buddy has acetone torch can heat that stuff up and melt it down that's why I like this forum haha it's in my brain just forget sometimes haha

Robert J Samples Loc: Round Rock, Texas

Well, Hoss: In World War II you would not have found anything like tackle in stores anyway. We would have to do with whatever we had, or ould make. I've seen people fishing with rocks tied on for sinkers. Since my Dad worked in the oil fields we had access to both Acetyline torch and a ladle to heat the lead, Just Sayin...RJS

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

Paul I make my on sinkers. Would be to costly to ship. Lead is heavy.

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

Paul britton wrote:

Man I live in Carlsbad nm and all the weights and stuff is gone anyone know of anyone selling weights it like gold right now with coronavirus crap is gone

I get a lot of my lead from an outdoor gun range. There's a dirt pile behind the target area and after a hard rain I can pick up pounds in just a few minutes. I've tried the tire weights and they are full of Zink along with lead they don't pour as well and leaves gaps in your weights. If you do use tire weights melt them skim off the Zink let cool and repeat. About three meetings will bring all the Zink to the top so it's usable.

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

I worked with a guy 50 years ago who fished for winter Black Mouth (chinook/king salmon). He trolled for them, and needed heavy weight to get down to the depth (before down riggers really got popular) but he didn't want to have that weight on when he played the fish, so he used 3 things, rocks, panty hose and sinker release.The sinker release is a metal tube that has a notch in the side and has a spring and pin inside. When the in-line release is installed and a sinker is attached to side via the pin, if a fish pulls hard enough, it will cause the spring loaded pin to retract and thus drop the weight. Now he didn't want to buy all those lead sinkers to just drop to the bottom of the bay, so he would go out and get a bucket of rocks. He also got his girl friend's old panty hose. now all he had to do is take some of the panty hose material load it with enough rocks, then attach to sinker release and he was set to go.