Wildlife and environmental groups led efforts to pass a state law this spring that will ban the sale of small lead sinkers as of 2004.

I hear a flat percussion, muffled, like a lead sinker bounced one time on a child's toy drum.

Even with a lead sinker, wind is a big factor in distance casting.

Using lug nuts instead of a lead sinker, he slipped one on the line and dropped it in the water again.

His eyelids were so heavy they felt as if lead sinkers had been sewn to them.

"You want to go there late at night when you won't get a lead sinker hitting you in the head," he said.

We arrive to find the fishermen pelting the pleasure craft with lead sinkers.

A jig consists of a lead sinker with a hook molded into it and usually covered by a soft body to attract fish.

The problem was with the small lead sinkers commonly used to weight fishing lines.

As originally written, the bill would have banned the sale or possession of lead sinkers.