I was amazed at how little tackle anglers are losing out there. It was much lower than I anticipated. Yet, even at the very low loss rates we found, the amount of lead ending up in the lakes is incredible.

It really opened my eyes on the volume of lead involved. And if you go back for all the decades we've been fishing these lakes, it's not hard to figure how much lead is down there. It's caused me to re-evaluate what's in my tackle box.