Looks similar to a drop shot? Probably fished on light line with a small plastic and spinning reel. Would probably wack the smallies or be good on heavy pressured fish.

They use tungsten so the sinker is smaller. They are about half the size. If you are finesse fishing you don't want a big hunk of lead hanging by the bait.

I don't mean to start an argument, I was wrong to one degree, tungsten isn't more than twice as heavy as lead, but almost twice as heavy as lead.

That is why gold plated tungsten is used in fake gold bullion; gold and tungsten have nearly the same density.

The density of lead is 11.6 the density of tungsten is 19.3
Density is g/cm3
Atomic number does not reflect density.

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I was wondering if the use of tungsten is for environmental reasons, or for it's function. Since it's nearly twice as heavy as lead the same amount of weight will result in a much smaller sinker resulting in a faster sinking lure due to less drag. Kind of like the new smaller diameter fishing lines.

I'm thinking tungsten might make good halibut jigs for deep water (100-300 feet) jigging.

see . . . I'm no chemist!

Short armed bottom bouncer !!!! LOL

I saw those a few months ago. The latest craze. I will go out on a limb a d bet that any smallie that would hit that would hit my regular ol tune jig just the same.

Depends on your situation. Down here we fish the river, and the smallies hold in the rocky areas the most. Getting that jig down to the bottom means a heavy jig, otherwise the current blows it downstream before it has a chance to get down to the rubble.

But a heavy jig also means it goes right to the bottom, and then catches between two rocks while reeling it in and then snagged. You can't always get the boat positioned on the other side of the pinned jig to pop it out backwards. So I'm looking at this rig as a means to get the presentation down there to the bottom right now, yet not get caught between rocks while reeling it back in.

Anyway, it's something to think about while the rivers here continue to rise now with the recent rains.

Had to make a supply run to Uline in Hudson yesterday, and took the river road up the Minnesota side and back down the Wisconsin side. Beautiful day for a trip. Behind every dam there were many, many boats. But the river is up over the islands . . . again. And rising.

Check out the NOAA Advanced Hydrologic Predictions:

https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/forecasts.php?wfo=arx

And nearby Lynxville is the norm up the big river:



I hope this year isn't a repeat of last year's forever high water events.