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Well I ordered a 10 pack so we'll see what happens at my tourney in a couple weeks  8-)

Also, I am no treehugger but they are alot more environmentally sound. Sometimes I wonder when I lose a jig or worm if the lake was drained and I walked around how many baits would I find? The exception for me is tube jigheads I like to fish an open hook and a tungsten weight would be wasted inside a tube!

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TGhanks for all the replies fellas but one more question though do they penetrate cover better?

Three important reasons why I like tungsten weights over lead. 1) In weight size - advantage tungsten.  2) For holding color if painted (for finicky clear water fish) - advantage tungsten. 3) The most important reason is that since they are much more expensive, I am retying much more often to avoid line breaks which loses weight, hook and fish - BIG advantage tungsten. This reason alone has made me take the time that to do what I have failed to do often enough. I have lost far too many fish over the last 40 years for that very reason. I consider tungsten weights a extremely inexpensive considering the valuable lesson learned.   ;)

And of course they penetrate cover better, they are smaller.

3) The most important reason is that since they are much more expensive, I am retying much more often to avoid line breaks which loses weight, hook and fish - BIG advantage tungsten. This reason alone has made me take the time that to do what I have failed to do often enough. I have lost far too many fish over the last 40 years for that very reason. I consider tungsten weights a extremely inexpensive considering the valuable lesson learned. ;)

Now that the lesson has been learned it would seem to be a good idea to apply that lesson to the use of lead.  Since no matter how careful you are you will still lose stuff once in a while.  It is still advantage lead when it comes to cost of lost weights.

DWS

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