Tell me about your balls

[Stizzla]

It is just your perspective... Some guys are giving tips on how to make your lead balls safe and not ding up your boat.
It the negative comments about the negative things that make it so negative. Irony! You an eat cheezies all you want if you coat your balls as described in the thread. Just b careful about the artificial ingredients in cheezies. Known carcinogen in the state of California. (Kidding)

Anyways... I’m likely going to grab a small pail of the crappy tire rocker guard and pour into a can slightly larger than my cannonballs and give them a dunk using a coat hanger in the top loop. I’ll then suspend them over cardboard and let them dry. I may or may not try painting with glow, or use some glow tape after. I will post a video here to show the results. Might not be for a week or two though.

 

[Corey_lax]

It is just your perspective... Some guys are giving tips on how to make your lead balls safe and not ding up your boat.
It the negative comments about the negative things that make it so negative. Irony! You an eat cheezies all you want if you coat your balls as described in the thread. Just b careful about the artificial ingredients in cheezies. Known carcinogen in the state of California. (Kidding)

Anyways... I’m likely going to grab a small pail of the crappy tire rocker guard and pour into a can slightly larger than my cannonballs and give them a dunk using a coat hanger in the top loop. I’ll then suspend them over cardboard and let them dry. I may or may not try painting with glow, or use some glow tape after. I will post a video here to show the results. Might not be for a week or two though.

Plastidip has a glow in the dark spray too. Coat the balls in white, then the green glow spray overtop.

 

[Rockfish]

I know some coat the balls with Ductape. There are different colors available.

I have noticed the expensive dip glow plastic etc is useful but dependent on where and how you fish it. If your fishing involves dragging them or hitting rock reefs on occasion that can breach the plastic and then corrosion sets in, in a big way as the salt water is trapped under the plastic.

The big advantage of good condition coating on balls or ductape to me is the health reasons. Eating greasy food like smoked salmon, potato chips, pepperoni and grabbing bare balls with bare hands ensures you will be eating a lot of lead. Even without the grease you will notice the gray on bare hands. I generally but not always use un-coated lead balls but do my best to avoid handling them with bare hands - not always successfully. One of my buddies uses stainless tee hooks he made with wood handles for moving balls around or carrying them to the boat so that he does not have to touch them directly or put gloves on and off.

 

[tinboatrobb]

Stizzla. You might want to coat your balls with spray foam so when you loose them they float to the surface for you.

 

[Stizzla]

Stizzla. You might want to coat your balls with spray foam so when you loose them they float to the surface for you.

I deserved that

 

[Stizzla]

These should last a week or 2:

 

[Cmiles]

Talked to Vern today Steve he said your his best customer

 

[Stizzla]

Talked to Vern today Steve he said your his best customer

Which I translate to “talked to Vern today Steve he said you’re the worst fisherman!”
Kidding. I’m doing ok. Glad the referrals are working out.

 

[fish brain]

These should last a week or 2:
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You should paint those suckers blue.

 

[Rain City]

You should paint those suckers blue.

Genius

 

[ziggy]

These should last a week or 2:
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Seeing all that lead in one place made me think of the pinnacles around Coal Island.

 

[Cmiles]

Those coal island pinnacles have a few pounds of my lead also