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I think they should ban anyone with a non-sealed reel from deep wading. The oil and grease can leak out an pollute the water. We'll need an organization to test and certify reels as being sealed. There should also be studies to determine if fish attractants and artificial bait is healthy for fish to eat. Chemicals can leech from the paint of fishing lures into the ocean. There's no way someone should be able to drag a plug loaded with as many as nine sharp hook points through the water. How can we be sure cute little seals or dolphins (or loons) aren't harmed? I almost forgot about the seagulls - we need seagull safe hooks so the poor critters aren't hurt when they dive bomb our poppers or snag a tin out of the air.
God only knows the impact of thousands of fishermen peeing into the water.
The only loons that were harmed by sinkers are the environmentalists who stayed up wetting their hemp-sheet-covered beds worrying about whether or not it's possible that birds can find sinkers that somehow fell or broke off the line and might eat them before a leaf covers the thing and renders it harmless for eternity.
Sinkers kind of look like shotgun shot, maybe that's how this nonsense started? Maybe if these folks ever got outside, they'd know that unlike shot, sinkers are attached to the line and aren't released into the water 600 at a time.
Small lead sinkers? Plastic baits? Look folks, if we keep going until fishermen and outdoorsmen in general have zero environmental impact, we'll all be fishing in those portable trout ponds.
Storm probably started the rumor so people would hoard swimbaits.
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