Loosing Grips

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Guest · #1 Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:02 pm

I fish over a lot of rough ground and so loose a lot of grips this is getting exspensive any good online shops for bulk buying at cheap rates?

#2 Post by **samonwalkabout** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:34 pm

If you are looking to go through a lot of lead then probably best to start making your own, just need a breakaway Style mould you can insert wires into they are easy enough to use once you get going and come out nice and shiny (almost seems a waster to throw you creations to the almost certain snaggy depths! Have a search on here for more info on making you own leads

..the trouble with buying lead online is the postage costs but you might try Conor from Pro-cast they do great lead products for boat fishing, might be able to hep you out with something for the shore.

others might suggest SparkPlugs but not sure about the enviromental impacts of them..probabaly similar to a lump of lead ???

x · #3 Post by x » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:07 pm

Gemini sell online a kit of moulds, wires etc. They also do bags of various wires for them as well as a refil pack for the main moulding kit.

#4 Post by **kieran** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:07 pm

Hi

Cheap source of lead is your local tyre shop - the old ckips can be melted down so long as you have a long handled pliers to extracting the small bits of metal. BTW, large rusty bolts iwth wire wound around them work too - althouigh I only use them on foul ground marks in deference to some poor sod standing on one in the surf... did that before myself once!

The site has a piece on how to manufacture you own leads and there a re some useful threads on using sandboxes for moulding etc. - use the serach facility (3 option above under the title on the top)...

FWIW...