Whats your opinion on lead?

[trevor]

Vote here, and lets see what everyone thinks.

[frogtog]

Stuff is dangerous, it will make all you kids be born naked. Seriously I don't know about the fishing weights we handle all the time. But on a larger scale it can raise havoc with you down the road in life.

[KYntucky Warmouth]

In my profession, lead is a must.  Without lead, you might as well remove your thyroid and testes/ovaries before taking a job

[flippin and pitchin]

How can any state ban lead in fishing products and still allow the use of lead weights for motor vehicle wheel balancing ?  If lead is banned, there must be equity and ban lead in other applications. If we are not careful any jig you break off will eventually be covered in zebra mussels.  Where does it end ?

[Hookemdown.]

Wheel weights aren't put directly into the water supply.

[SirSnookalot]

Hopefully wheel weights along with lead for other uses  will get recycled, even though lead is fairly cheap scrap item it can be a profitable item due to the fact it weighs up heavy in a hurry.

[.dsaavedra.]

i put lead on my cheerio's in the morning.

[llPa1nll]

Its not healthy to be around, period. Keeping it out of the country's waters is a good thing. There are other alternatives to lead. I think tungsten is going to replace lead in the future. Its more dense and is more sensitive as well. Yes, there is a cost difference. However if its going to cost me an extra $5 for worm weights but keeping lead out of the waters Im fine with it. If it is too much of a burden, then I'll sell my $400-500 reel and rod combos.

;D ;D

[FishingBuds]

Yea leads not good, and I would say NO

I don't believe they really wanna banned it for the true reason, I believe they are using this as a closer step to go after the hole sha-bang, fishing and hunting, so I say YES

[Grey Wolf]

not good.

[Teaburner]

In my opinion lead from fishing tackle is most likely not having any significant impact on the environment.

[NateFollmer]

Ban lead in water supplies that people use for water, leave it go in others. Seriously, how much lead are we really losing in the waterways? I wouldn't think its THAT much to really cause harm to wildlife. I think the real question is Where is all this mercury coming from? But I digress...

[Captain Obvious]

They put worse things then lead in your drinking water to make it "safe" to drink

[Wayne P.]

The lead used for fishing lures and sinkers are not water soluable EVER.

Your vehicle tire balancing weights will never desolve in water either.

Do a web search for lead soluability.

[farmpond1]

Are they talking about banning future manufacturing of lead products?  Or banning it from use entirely?  If it's the latter, I guess I just have to be a renegade 'cause I have waaaaaay too much stuff to replace.

Where is the sudden push coming from anyway?  Apart from lead shot, I haven't heard that lead is making that big of an environmental impact.  Me wonders if this isn't another tactic being used by the "anti's."

[flippin and pitchin]

Wheel weights aren't put directly into the water supply.

You are missing the point. Lead is introduced into the environment one particle at a time.  There are a reported two hundred and fifty million vehicles on the road today in the US. Multiply that by four wheels per vehicle, average.  Grit, sand, washing, etc. remove particles of lead which are introduced into the environment and through run off, into the water supply.  My point is, don't make lead in fishing lures or weights the demon of the environment and not address the other applications of lead pollution. If one will legislate a ban on lead in sporting goods then apply it elsewhere. They don't put lead weights in the water ?  The EPA removed over 260 lead based batteries from one cove at lake Powell in the early 80's.

[FishingBuds]

Wheel weights aren't put directly into the water supply.

You are missing the point. Lead is introduced into the environment one particle at a time. There are a reported two hundred and fifty million vehicles on the road today in the US. Multiply that by four wheels per vehicle, average. Grit, sand, washing, etc. remove particles of lead which are introduced into the environment and through run off, into the water supply. My point is, don't make lead in fishing lures or weights the demon of the environment and not address the other applications of lead pollution. If one will legislate a ban on lead in sporting goods then apply it elsewhere. They don't put lead weights in the water ? The EPA removed over 260 lead based batteries from one cove at lake Powell in the early 80's.

BAm, exactly >

Thats why I say they're using this to try and get the hole sha-bang, its not about pollution

[Captain Obvious]

On a side note wheel weights don't have much lead in them more.

I asked my friend who owns a tire shop if I could have wheel weights for making some jigs and he told me that it would take like 50 to make a 1/4 jig.

Why are they worried anyway? That Diet coke is going to get to you before the lead in the drinking water

[FishingBuds]

I hope the gun industry will still stay in the fight, we could use them

[slonezp]

I've been pinching splitshots with my teeth for almost 40 years and I'm only half crazy.

[BassThumb]

The prices of so many lures have gotten out of hand already. Imagine what the stuff would cost if they had to be made with more expensive, alternative metals. I'm willing to bet that the effect of lead is peanuts compared to that of the contaminants that enter the lake through simple runoff after a rain.

[done]

Until they can come up with an effective and cheap alternative, heck ya it needs to stay.

One thing they ignore, not all of this lead use is by those of us with extra cash who fish/hunt for a hobby. I have met plenty of folks who hunt and fish to feed their family. They are usually not hanging onto a lot of extra income. When you greatly increase the price of ammo and fishing gear, you have a serious impact on those folks.

Lead in high concentrations can be bad. I am not going to believe that my split shots and deer slugs are the cause of all the excess lead in the environment.