After seing Jim's question about tungsten, and the responses to my questions about it also, I came up with another question.

We have lead wire for weighting. We have lead dumbbell eyes for weighting.

We have brass beads, brass coneheads, tungsten beads, tungsten coneheads.

Why haven't I seen lead for these uses? Certainly doable. The lead slip sinkers beloved of plastic worm fishermen are just lead coneheads slightly larger/longer.

Lead is heavier than brass. It's cheaper than tungsten or brass. There is no question that it would work, it's the material of choice for jig heads of all sizes, from 1/180 ounce up to pounds. And that's really what adding a weight behind the hook eye of any hook does, turn it into a jig.

The environmental health issues aside, why aren't these readily available?

Anyone know?

Buddy