Fishing Sinkers & Weights

Fishing Sinkers and Weights Are Essential Fishing Tackle

Inexpensive Fishing sinkers and weights are used to keep the fishing line and bait at a certain depth and movement. Just as there are different types of fishing, there are different styles of weights to match. You can find inexpensive used fishing sinkers and weights for all your fishing needs for sale on eBay.

There are many different types and sizes of cheap fishing sinkers and weights. These are some of the commonly used kinds:

• Barrel sinkers or rounded eggs: These types of weights are often used for slip rigs or for fishing with live bait.
• Split-shots: These are lightweight and are typically used when fishing in currents. These can be directly on the line or hanging alongside.
• Pyramid weights: These are used for bottom fishing and when in fast currents. They are also a good choice for surf fishing.
• Bullet weights: These weights are used mostly in conjunction with Texas-rigged plastic worms for bass fishing.
• Bass casting: These have snaps and are combined with a swivel.
• Keel bars: These are trolling weights and have swivels and snaps on both ends.
• Bank sinkers: These are attached to the end of a rig or above the hook on a slide.
• Drop-shot: These are used when you want the sinker to break away when it is hung-up on something. The weight is placed below the hook.
• Bell sinkers: These are usually fashioned as a three-way rig with a swivel.

Fishing sinkers and weights are usually made of lead. Lead is inexpensive when compared to other metals, and it is very easy to use molten lead in molds to form the weights. You can also use sinkers made with copper or cadmium.

There are different methods of fishing that depend on the type of fish and their environment. These different styles of fishing use different kinds of sinkers:

• Fly fishing: Split-shot sinkers are the most common type of weight used when fly fishing.
• Freshwater fishing: You can use many different types of weights when fishing in freshwater. Egg sinkers, split shot, bullet weights, and slip sinkers are some of the weights you might use.
• Ice fishing: Using egg sinkers with live bait is a common rig for ice fishing.
• Saltwater fishing: Pyramid, coin, and wedge sinkers are the most common fishing weights used for surf fishing in saltwater.