Money Saving Tip - Crafting Beads

[Mike Carey]

One word (and a letter). E-Bay. Search the jewelry area. Tons of items, inexpensive, and delivered to you, many times with free shipping. Avoid the fishing sections as people selling in those areas are just repackaging the beads etc.

[HillbillyGeek]

If you read the regs flossing is snagging because the fish didn’t take the hook.....

I've got the regs in front of me and don't see what you are referring to.
People cheat all the time. Heck, I was out at 3-rivers marine the other day and they now have an entire line of sinkers that look like corkies. Now why would they do that...??? Read the anti-snagging rule and you will get it. They want their weight closer to the hook than 12" but don't want anyone to notice. I've even seen people get creative and put heavy spinner blades *below* a bare hook saying that it was a "lure", not a "weight". Tomato, tomaahto, if you ask me.
And it's easy to floss with a bobber too...

Thats not what those are for. They are bait weights for running eggs under a float. I make my own out of plain sliding sinkers and just paint them myself.

Why not just use split shot? I hope you aren't running them close to the eggs -- that would be illegal.
From the regs: "Weights may not be attached below or less than 12" above the lure or bait".
Painting something does *not* magically transform it from "weight" to "lure".

[spoonman]

Actually it does make it a lure. According to your logic jigs and buzz bombs would be illegal.

[spoonman]

There have been many threads dedicated to this subject and the anti snagging law 8s the most convoluted piece of garbage in the book. Even game wardens have their own interpretation of it. The gamey that runs around out here has told me she thinks bait weights are fine, but someone else may ticket you. I will continue to use them since it is obvious from the way I use them im not snagging fish