Do You Worry About Exposure To Lead? 2024
TNBassin' reply :
I never gave it a ton of thought until recently, but almost all of our gear contains or is made of lead. I always wonder what effects, if any, will pop up over the course of our fishing lives with being exposed to lead every time we go fishing. Maybe I'm over thinking it a bit, but you never know. Anyone else worry about this?
SirSnookalot reply :
Unless you're sucking on a split shot all day long or working in a lead smelting operation I wouldn't worry about.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Don't bite split shots to close them and if you pour anything make sure you do it in a well ventilated area and you'll be fine.
Crestliner2008 reply :
Think about this. Billions of people have drunk water through lead soldered pipes for a hundred years. I've also poured my own lead jigs for years and years. I'm 68 and still kicking. Unfortunately, we have a lead ban here in MA, so I no longer have the option of using it for fishing, due to two loons that ingested lead sinkers. Sad state of affairs. Of course, no one cites the fact that our loon population has tripled over the past 10 years. That doesn't seem to count. The "tree huggers" got their way.
BassinLou reply :
Nope. Keep it away from your mouth and do not breath in fumes if your making your own weights.
Sam reply :
Nope. Never enters my mind.
More worried about exposure to sun and wind.
flyfisher reply :
Nope more concerned with UV exposure myself.
Felix77 reply :
I had lead poisoning as a child and this did cross my mind. As long as you wash/sanatize your hands regularly you will be OK.
If you are exposed its in trace amounts. Just don't suck on them like candy and you are alright.
Fishing Rhino reply :
Nope.
Brian Needham reply :
we grew up baiting our hooks, biting our own split shot on/walking around with it in our pockets then taking a bite of our sammich......I think you'll be ok.
CPBassFishing reply :
Not at all. I mainly use tungsten anyways. However, sun is what you should be worried about. Always wear sunscreen on a sunny day.
BiteMe73 reply :
After sucking in fumes from an aircraft carrier's smoke stack and breathing in jet fumes, the little bit of lead on tackle is the least of my worries.
nascar2428 reply :
Nope, I'm not eating lead. I worry more about whats in or on our food instead.
WRB reply :
Use the Internet and look up lead positioning; Mao Clinc etc.
Continuous exposure to lead particulates (dust) or fumes from melting lead can be harmful to children and some adults. Don't worry about handling your lead fishing terminal tackle or unpainted lures like jigs. If it worries you, wash your hands.
Tom
WRB reply :
Who's navy? Aircraft Carriers have been nuclear power for over 50 years, unless you are talking about the smaller flat tops.On 3/23/2013 at 11:35 PM, BiteMe73 said:After sucking in fumes from an aircraft carrier's smoke stack and breathing in jet fumes, the little bit of lead on tackle is the least of my worries.
Jet exhaust is a mixture of unburned fuel and sulfuric or nitrous acid, that could be a health issue; serving in the military is dfeinately hazardous duty.
Tom
Teal reply :
On 3/23/2013 at 4:21 PM, SirSnookalot said:Unless you're sucking on a split shot all day long or working in a lead smelting operation I wouldn't worry about.
Literally just laughed my butt off!
Im more worried about setting the hook and missing, thus turning my weight into a bullett thats flying at me than the usual handling of lead. To be honest, ive never really thought about it.
Oldplug reply :
Well if it makes you feel better I have 65+ years been exposed to lead in fishing tackle. There was a time when I had real teeth that I put split shot on the line by chomping down on them. I have held sinkers in my mouth with my teeth while tying and re tying lines at night a awful lot over the years with no trouble. I have lead in sports fishing is dangerous unless you eat it and I never swallowed a sinker.
Goose52 reply :
As someone that just several years ago had a blood lead level of 47 micrograms/deciliter (lead poisoning level), I would say that after handling lead, it's always a good idea to wash your hands before eating, drinking, smoking, or otherwise getting your hands near your mouth. Now, if you only handle a lead weight a couple times a day while tying up a Texas rig, you will probably die of old age before feeling any effects from elevated blood lead levels. If you are sorting out a bunch of lead sinkers and have handled quite a few - for your health and safety you should be washing your hands. As has already been mentioned, if you are casting lead, you want cross-ventilation across the top of your furnace (and wear all protective gear like faceshield, gloves, apron, etc.).
There is indeed the potential to transfer lead into your system while handling the solid form, or breathing fumes during casting. The effects are minimal at low levels of exposure, but can be cumulative, depending on frequency and severity of exposure. Handle enough lead, enough times, and you run the risk of gradually increasing your blood lead level.
Hyrule Bass reply :
never really worried about it as far as using fishing weights goes...
*Hootie reply :
Spent 45 yrs. breathing welding fumes. Ain't skeered "o" nuthin!!!
Hootie
*Hootie reply :
Blah blah blah......has been found by the state of California to cause cancer. Well, I'm not going to use my blah blah blah in California, so I don't care.
Hootie
ww2farmer reply :
Of all the things I worry about, lead is wayyyyyyy way down there.
Brian Needham reply :
is there anything that doesn't cause cancer in the state of California?
BassinB reply :
I smoke regularly while I'm fishing, if I was going to worry about ingesting chemicals......
flippin and pitchin reply :
Only if it's coming at me from a barrel.
TNBassin' reply :
On 3/24/2013 at 3:58 AM, hootiebenji said:Spent 45 yrs. breathing welding fumes. Ain't skeered "o" nuthin!!!
Hootie
I make silver, and some of the fumes, chemicals, and especially the dust present in my work environment will surely cause me more problems before lead will. It's just funny that all our lives we are taught that lead is bad, yet our favorite hobby/sport uses a ton of it.
BiteMe73 reply :
On 3/24/2013 at 12:42 AM, WRB said:Who's navy? Aircraft Carriers have been nuclear power for over 50 years, unless you are talking about the smaller flat tops.
Jet exhaust is a mixture of unburned fuel and sulfuric or nitrous acid, that could be a health issue; serving in the military is dfeinately hazardous duty.
Tom
Not all carriers were nuclear powered. I was on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and she was decommisioned only like 3 years ago. She was one of the last conventional carriers. When I was in the Navy back in the very early '90's she burned oil. I can still taste the smoke from the stack today when I think back. It'll never leave me.
MrSwimJig reply :
I am definitely not afraid of it. It seems like everything can cause cancer know a days...
SirSnookalot reply :
Being in the scrap business I can't think of too many times that we didn't have thousands of pounds of lead around in many different forms. Sure no one was licking the stuff but much of it was handled by hand just to be palletized. Back when I first started linotype was on it's way out in the printing business, I personally emptied drawers by hand tons upon tons of typeset and loaded dross with a shovel with no ill affects ever. I handled so much in a 2 day period it made me enough money to start my business.
Oldplug reply :
My Navy AB3 USS ESSEX CVA 9. If you were not inflight operations you spent a lot of time chipping and painting with red lead paint. That might cause some problems today for some veterans. I have no idea.
merc1997 reply :
for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question. where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with?? it comes from out of the ground. because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things. do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer?? and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at?? i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times, but after i had my hand slapped a couple of times for doing so, i learned to not be doing that. i know for without a doubt in my mind that lead is less of a hazard than lazy parents.
bo
*Hootie reply :
On 3/25/2013 at 8:27 AM, merc1997 said:for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question. where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with?? it comes from out of the ground. because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things. do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer?? and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at?? i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times,
Door lickin was always way down on my list of fun things to do......lol
Hootie
Koofy Smacker reply :
On 3/25/2013 at 8:27 AM, merc1997 said:for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question. where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with?? it comes from out of the ground. because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things. do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer?? and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at?? i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times, but after i had my hand slapped a couple of times for doing so, i learned to not be doing that. i know for without a doubt in my mind that lead is less of a hazard than lazy parents.
bo
Lead doesnt come out of the ground as lead. It comes out as lead ore, (less than 10% lead) which is then crushed and burned in a blast furnace to separate all the minerals and metals out. The safety protocols which are in place within the plants pretty much limit exposure by workers (plus its mostly automated now). In its ore form, (most metals for that instance) arent very dangerous at all.
I only know these weird things because Im a geologist 
Up around my region its asbestos you have to worry about a lot. We have a lot of serpentine which commonly forms with crysotile which is that hairy asbestos stuff 
jignfule reply :
I leave lead split shot in mi moth and chiw on it allot of the times an it hazent efficted me knot atol
trailer reply :
It sure is deadly on deer. And outside of the nervous ticks and slight mutation, I'm doing fine.
flyfisher reply :
On 3/23/2013 at 11:13 PM, CPBassFishing said:Not at all. I mainly use tungsten anyways. However, sun is what you should be worried about. Always wear sunscreen on a sunny day.
Actually sunscreen on any day where the sun is high in the sky, spring through fall really. I know friends who have been sunburned on a completely cloudy day before.
Bankbeater reply :
When I was little I use to bite split shots all of the time. That's probably what's wrong with me now 
. Just wash your hands and remember not to put anything in your mouth and you should be ok.
Brad70 reply :
I live in Southeast Missouri a.k.a. "The Lead Belt". Growing up, we had huge "chat dumps" in nearly every town around here. They were enormous mounds of mine tailings. Within the last 5-10 years the EPA has been working to take these down and relocate the chat. Many yards in my area have had to been completely dug up up to 6 feet deep to remove all the lead tail minings left. I would not claim that Lead is harmless, but my entire community, all my family, have lived upon lead mining waste in our soil and our river systems and we are still kicking! I just don't feel as if limited exposure from some fishing tackle is enough to worry out IMO.
fadetoblack21 reply :
I'm gonna say that as long as your not eating large amounts of your led weights, it shouldn't pose a problem. Sun exposure is far more dangerous than the handling of led sinkers. . .
J Francho reply :
If you're worried about lead exposure, go to the doctor and have a test done. It isn't very likely that incidental handling of lead tackle would cause a spike in your levels.
Ratherbfishing reply :
The only one at risk of lead poisoning in my house is the one who breaks into it.
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