inner tube weights

[BIGCHRIS]

when i was a lad..........a mate of mine used to fish and he used to use tyre innertubes filled with sand for weights when fishing off the rock edges and over snaggy ground we thought he was a right skinflint but looking back i suppose he had it sussed (only when casting isnt an issue), i suppose using this method could help you get into less snags aswell as the weight is soft and might squeeze out of a snagg

iwould love to know if there is a tried and tested way of making these weights any ideas would be welcome

[willywetegg]

Chris I am sure TC will add to this for you but you used to be able to buy weight\'s like that mate. I believe Tony still has one (keeps it on top of his white fivers lol).

Jim.

[Charlton]

Chris, i used to use bicycle inner tubes filed with sand in the old days when using the old scarborugh on the rock ends at Cullercoats. anything that held sand worked, socks, nylons etc you could still get a good distance with them.

[TC]

Take a look at this topic, Chris....

http://www.nesa.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread &tid=6459#pid

I remember my opening post being the cause of much p-taking...lol.

I\'m pleased somebody else has asked about \"rubber weights\"

The photo I posted was of a commercially available weight......don\'t know who made them (but they were very expensive, if I remember rightly), or if they are still commonly available.

[Edited on 11/1/2006 by TC]

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Funnily enough I\'ve always thought that would be a good idea but I\'d never heard of it until now ,I\'ve obviously not been fishing as long as you chaps.

[hookup-1]

hi chaps
i remember many years ago when i used to go with with my father and his mates just to watch with interest, i was only a nipper then he use to use an old green heart you,ll remember them alan c lol and with an 8 to 10 scarborough at the businees end could hardly hold it never mind ,he use to use 3 or 4 car spark plugs tied together and always back casted ? yes i know that now,when i asked why he he would put so many plugs on he would reply TO GET A GOOD START ,wondered why his mates were always chuckling in the background clicked on years later LOL may his legend and stories continue .just thought i would throw that one in steve when the suject was wieghts cheers

[Charlton]

remeber them hook up, my grandfather used to make scarborugh rods out of green heart he got from the pits, he also made the reels with bicycle spindles. Whats your fathas name.

[mark]

never seen em as weights but vcame across a police officer or 2 on the odd demonstration in the eighties that foured a 12inch length of bicycle inner tube filled with sand. oh for those nostalgic days of the SPG and the miners strike!

[BriH]

Your Lucky - my mates at Westoe said they used the Batons - but that was them W*nkers from the Met that came up here burning £20 notes in front of the Picket line


Dont forget the Party in the Crown when she pops her clogs to the green grocers up above :P :P

[ollie]

my ole fella used them and also he used old sections of copper pipe filled with sand which were hammered over on the ends and a hole drilled through one end then fitted with a loop of heavy gauge nylon for attaching .they always looked real neat in his creel

[BIGCHRIS]

some interesting answers there lads cheers

[YoursTruly]

I know someone who used to use the thick stalks from kelp.
he would cut them to different lengths depending on the weight he wanted.
It worked for him and he caught plenty of fish back in the 60\'s ans 70\'s

[Tadpoleman]

Using sparkplugs as weights !!!!!!!! thats \"Champion\"

bert

[sless]

when i was a kid i used my mams pan and her big spoons for making sinkers then gaan to mill dam
then get a thick ear when i got home
that wasnt champion

[tony.codling]

joking aside lads its got me thinking always on the lookout for
new ideas
but the naffest idea ever has to be the bell on the rod tips
back in the seventies on shields pier everone had one what with
them old floppy rods ding.ding.ding
and when you wound in it got worse
hands up anyone who had a bell on there rod
not guilty