In a message dated 6/6/00 1:13:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> I'll recommend that he turn it into high class sinkers.


Mitch,

Seriously, on NPR within the last week a fellow was interviewed that is
prepared with several barrels of the powder with which to make bismuth
fishing sinkers, as a substitute for lead sinkers. He had sold them before
but the local fisher's demand was not high enough for supposedly more
ecologically PC sinkers.

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