Lindy No-Snag sinkers

[REELMAN]

what does eveyone think of them? Godd/Bad??????
I have used them and thought they were good, but can't really say if they are better than a slip bottom bouncer.

[Pitts]

I only like them in certain conditions mainly where brush or sticks are present.
Rocks seem to get them every time and the idea of putting a 2$ weight down in snaggy conditions is asking to have an expensive trip.

For rigging I like a removable bell sinkers so I can change weights depending on the speed and presentation I want to do.

I have had good sucsess using them on deep points in Lake Pepin and on the St Croix river where I thought there was branches and limbs on the bottom but I lost all of 1 size from my kit while rigging eyes on Rainy lake cause the rocks like to hold on to them just like a jig and fireline isn't stronger than rocks.
The added color and disturbance ahead of your rig or crawler harness may add to your # of bites but may also have negative affects in clear water applications.

Good luck
Pitts

[eyeman_1]

I really liked using them in LOTW and Lac Suel... two well known rock piles!While it's true that they get wedged in the rocks... I've had great success retreiving them once they get caught. Regular Lindy sinkers get hopelessly trapped in the rocks and they aren't coming back.. the no snaggs do. Just back up or circle around and give them some slack.. a quick pop and they come back 95% of the time. Expensive to loose but I waste less time breaking off a regular Lindy and retying then backing up and getting these un-snagged. I'd say they are pricey but in the long run cheaper then retying with another swivel, cutting some more mono, retying and another hook..

Just my $.02.

I like them real well on a "dead rod" using a Phelp's Floater.

[Mattman]

I use them all the time. Yes, they will get snagged in the rocks, but I too have had excellent luck getting on the opposite side of my snag and just popping it out. I loose much fewer NS's than traditional walking sinkers or even bullet sinkers when I'm in the nasty rocks of NW Ontario.



Matt Davis

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[SoDakMac]

For whatever reasons, I seem to lose them about the same rate as any other type weight I use. I have not seen the cost-benefit ratio that makes sense for me to purchase more of them. Most of the time I use the quick-change wire type for bottom bouncing and quick-change old Lindy style for rigging.

[Suzuki]

I think they are too expensive. I started making my own no-snag sinkers with parachute cord and split shot.

The best way to fish the no-snagg sinker is to fish them as VERTICAL as possible. You can usually use one size larger in the no-snagg sinker than you're accustomed to using with a regular sinker. This will aid you in fishing them vertically. They are not meant to be cast out and retrieved. Good luck, dockehr

I call them Sure-Snags but use them anyway. Seem to have better feel and they do come out of rock snags easier.Good luck

Hmm lets see, 3 bucks for two no-snag sinkers or 25cents for plain old pencil sinkers. I just don't get this guys. I have bought a pack of no-snags and to me its a pencil sinker with rubber coating? I can bend a pencil sinker to the banana shape of a no-snag. I think its some crap to soak fisherman of their money, no thanks.