Tungsten Weight Selection

[J._Bricker]

3/16 to 2.0 are the tungsten weights in my arsenal, including those Miller Punch Weights, definitely making for one heavy Plano box. 

[GetFishorDieTryin]

Ive got just about every size nail, bullet, DS, cylinder, neko and wacky tungsten weight in from 3/64-1/2oz, since the water is shallow and I don't really punch.  My most used/if I could only have 1 weight are as follows

Bullet 3/16

DS 1/8

Nail 3/32

Cylinder/Mojo 1/8

 

[osummerer23]

I only recently started using tungsten, as Vermont doesn't allow lead under 1/2oz. I use bullet's in 3/16. That's it. Did have to buy 3/16 drop shot weights, which I feel are a waste, but I only bought 1 pack of 10 for the 1 week I fish VT a year. 

 

I hardly ever fish plastics that's not on a jig, ned, chatterbait. 

[Kirtley Howe]

1 hour ago, osummerer23 said:

I only recently started using tungsten, as Vermont doesn't allow lead under 1/2oz. I use bullet's in 3/16. That's it. Did have to buy 3/16 drop shot weights, which I feel are a waste, but I only bought 1 pack of 10 for the 1 week I fish VT a year. 

 

I hardly ever fish plastics that's not on a jig, ned, chatterbait. 

Just a side note on the Tungsten weights....In New York State since 2004 it is "illegal to sell, or offer for sale, lead fishing weights of less than 1/2 oz". It is NOT illegal to USE lead weights of less than 1/2 oz. Which means that you can make your own, or buy them from a source outside of NY, and use them....which many anglers do.

[J Francho]

I have a few 1/8, but mostly 3/8, 1, and 1.5 oz.

[osummerer23]

19 hours ago, Kirtley Howe said:

Just a side note on the Tungsten weights....In New York State since 2004 it is "illegal to sell, or offer for sale, lead fishing weights of less than 1/2 oz". It is NOT illegal to USE lead weights of less than 1/2 oz. Which means that you can make your own, or buy them from a source outside of NY, and use them....which many anglers do.

Technically that's what Vermont says too, but on their eregulations. . . Im a person who uses steel shot for small game, and I guess it time to transition from lead to tungsten, just very expensive for things I purposely toss into cover with light line. Good thing I don't use many sinkers anyway. Not worth the hassle if I get check by a warden. 

 

regulation book

Lead Sinkers

It is illegal to sell, offer for sale, or use a lead sinker in Vermont. “Sinker” means any device that weighs one-half ounce or less and is attached to a fishing line for the purpose of sinking the line, and does not include other lead fishing-related items such as weighted fly line, lead-core fishing line, downrigger cannonballs, weighted flies, lures, spoons, or jig heads.

 

VS law

(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 4615)

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  § 4615. Lead sinkers; sales prohibited

  It is unlawful to sell or offer for sale a lead sinker in the State of Vermont. In this section, “sinker” means any device which weighs one-half ounce or less and is attached to a fishing line for the purpose of sinking the line, and does not include other lead fishing-related items such as weighted fly line, lead-core fishing line, downrigger cannon balls, weighted flies, lures, spoons, or jig heads. (Added 2003, No. 137 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.)