Legislature Considering Banning All Lead Tackle Under 1 oz. HB 2241.

For those of you who do not notice the blogs, and may not have seen Mark Bryne's blog about this bill, please read the blog posts and get involved now!

The Loon advocates promised not to promote this ban if they got the the Fisheries Commission to ban lead on 13 lakes.  The ban occurred, and now the Birders are going back on their promise and are pushing for legislation on a total lead ban of 1 oz and below.  Jigs, spinnerbaits, dropshot sinkers, all weights, and  many lures can be kissed goodbye, and instead of paying 30 cents for a QuickDrop you can pay $1.30 for tungsten.  And since Tungsten takes 6,000 degrees of heat to melt you will be responsible for wasting all that energy and creating a huge carbon footprint, you will send all the jobs to China or Japan where it is made.  None is made in the USA because the EPA won't allow us to manufacture it in a cost effective manner! 

It is pretty sad that Washington State has become even more insane than California.

FYI, this is being pushed by the Audubon Society and PETA.  When I earned a BS Degree in Ecology and took ornithology classes, I learned something very interesting about John James Audubon, who the Audubon Society is named after.  Audubon documented all the birds of North America, and to do so he killed them all, propped them up with wire, and then painted them.  He literally killed thousands and thousands of birds, including many that were endangered even back then!  I would contend that more birds were harmed and killed by the mentor of the Audubon Society, than have been killed by lead fishing sinkers!  The Birders have offered absolutely no scientific evidence that a problem exists that is worthy of any ban.

This morning at work a Wren flew into my office glass window and died.  Really!  Do I have to worry that all glass windows will be banned?  We all have experienced this same phenomina, yet how many have seen birds perish from lead sinkers?  Waterfowl each year are killed in large numbers when trying to land on wet pavement, thinking it is a lake.  Guess we had better ban pavement too!

So I ask you, are you going to take back control of your state and its laws, or are you going to let the Audubon Society and PETA do so?

Please get involved before it is too late. 

ciao,
Marc Marcantonio