Cabelas and Lead

The National Parks goal is to ban lead by the end of this year. I've
been weaning myself off lead for a few years now and pretty much don't
use it anymore. Just went to Cabelas to get some tungsten bead heads
for a few dozen flies I need to tie. Over 90% of the beads they had
were plated lead. Most of the rest were brass. Of the 5 pegs they
had for tungsten, three were empty.
You know, if you are going to advertise how great you are in
preserving the environment, maybe you should live up to your words and
sell products that further that goal.
Rant off.
Frank Reid
(who knows the boy scouts I'm tying these flies for would not know the
difference, but I would)

On 30-Apr-2010, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frank_Reid_=A9_2010?=
wrote:

The National Parks goal is to ban lead by the end of this year. I've
been weaning myself off lead for a few years now and pretty much don't
use it anymore. Just went to Cabelas to get some tungsten bead heads
for a few dozen flies I need to tie. Over 90% of the beads they had
were plated lead. Most of the rest were brass. Of the 5 pegs they
had for tungsten, three were empty.
You know, if you are going to advertise how great you are in
preserving the environment, maybe you should live up to your words and
sell products that further that goal.
Rant off.
Frank Reid

Fishing here - on our propery
We have people abiding by the "arbitrary" - rules of the lake -only using
aluminum or tungsten wts
- single barbless hooks only ,4-6 lb test tippet material altho this gets
hard to check

No organic bait & no other boats except ours
and
We supply all with the necessary gear if people do not have it
And of course one has to have a healthy sense of wonder and awe for the
beauty of a rainbow trout and their environs
And to keep it that way

Fred

I do what I can to protect what I can.

Cabelas is only in it for the $$$-dollars all else is aload of bull ****.

Fred

Fred

On Apr 30, 10:59*pm, "Fred" wrote:
On 30-Apr-2010, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frank_Reid_=A9_2010?=
wrote:

The National Parks goal is to ban lead by the end of this year. *I've
been weaning myself off lead for a few years now and pretty much don't
use it anymore. *Just went to Cabelas to get some tungsten bead heads
for a few dozen flies I need to tie. *Over 90% of the beads they had
were plated lead. *Most of the rest were brass. *Of the 5 pegs they
had for tungsten, three were empty.
You know, if you are going to advertise how great you are in
preserving the environment, maybe you should live up to your words and
sell products that further that goal.
Rant off.
Frank Reid

Fishing here - on our propery
*We have people abiding by the "arbitrary" - rules of the lake -only using
*aluminum or tungsten wts
- single barbless hooks only ,4-6 lb test tippet material altho this gets
hard to check

No *organic bait & no other boats except ours
and
We supply all with the necessary gear if people do not have it
And of course one has to have a healthy sense of wonder and awe for the
beauty of a rainbow trout and their environs
And to keep it that way

Fred

I do what I can to protect what I can.

Cabelas is only in it for the $$$-dollars all else is aload of bull ****.

Fred

Fred

Well, their response this morning was to point me to their webpage
selling the tungsten. They didn't get the hint even though I smacked
them with a 2X4.
Frank Reid