The biggest difference (other than weight and price) is that non lead seems more 'brittle' to me. Not significant, but noticeable.
The biggest difference (other than weight and price) is that non lead seems more 'brittle' to me. Not significant, but noticeable.
I, like many others, have gone exclusively to lead-free wire. However, I don't tie many large weighted flies anymore so the extra weight that lead has over lead-free doesn't really apply to my tying. If I want extra weight on a small fly I'll use a tungsten bead instead of a brass one. I use lead-free wire mostly to just seat the bead and not for additional weight.
Joe
I use a sinking tip fly line in streams . When trolling in lakes which I do a lot I use sinking fly line. I have no idea if my sinking lines contain lead or not .
For God's sake, Don't Quote me! I'm Probably making this crap up!
Tungsten bead heads and lead-free wire work pretty good for me.
I, for one, appreciate those who do not use lead.
Mele Kalikimaka!
Does anyone know if the current brass bead heads are modern lead-free brass or still the old 85-triple-five?
Separate your observations from your preconceptions. See what is, not what you expect.
Really Byron a little lead really matters, take a look at the Animas River in Colorado this past summer. Now that is disgusting beyond words, all of which has gone pretty quietly.
Last edited by Gene; 12-26-2015 at 07:02 PM.
Gene,
There are many, many problems and terrible things happening to our environment. In most cases, there is little or nothing that each of us can do about them.
In the case of lead ending up damaging waterfowl, that is something we might be able to reduce simply by using a lead substitute.
It is our choice and something we can control.
Last edited by Byron haugh; 12-27-2015 at 01:23 AM.
A few random thoughts...
A few years ago at the AK Fly Fishers' Kenai River Clean Up a friend and I worked the area right at the mouth of the Russian River, dumping into the Kenai. In a couple hours we picked upa quite a bit of trash. However, we also picked up sinkers when we found them. These were everything from small split shot to honking 1 ounce rubber cores! We picked up over 60 POUNDS of lead in a couple hours on a stretch of beach no more than about 500 yards.
The following year we did not pick up 5 in the same place doing the same thing... the next year we found even less... and so on...
The old 85 triple 5 is an interesting thing because the less noble lead is going to go away MUCH faster than the more noble copper??? Not so much! The far less noble copper is going to go far before the lead or nickle... the tin will go first but the copper will be leaving early also...
Copper is not good for any living organism.
I'm sure you guys must have trouble if you have to solder electrical stuff. I agree with your basic idea but feel that it is really overdone.
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