Made my own surf weights today...

[ArcheryNerd]

So it's a crap day and I was cleaning the garage then I decided to get totally side tracked and make surf weights. I took a copper sleeve, a coat hanger and some heavier metal rod and a bunch of spider weights with the legs broke off. it took about 20 mins to melt the lead on the camp stove in a $3 pot I got from Goodwill. wrapped the bottom with aluminum foil and pour... I learned you have to pour fast. The chunky one I poured slow. I didn't expect the copper sleeve to but I quenched them in the pool and bam it came off. These are both pretty serious weights I am going to guess around 12oz each but that's ok I will use them to run out big shark baits.... I guess now I have to go back to cleaning the garage

[Pedernal]

Awesome!! 12oz might be more like anchors I was contemplating making some out of some duck decoy weights.

[alwaysinshorts]

I make my own also. They are much better than what you can buy.

[alwaysinshorts]

How often do you go? I'm always looking for some good people to go with

[ArcheryNerd]

It's looking like I am going to hit surf side this weekend...

[alwaysinshorts]

This coming weekend? April 8th? Where you going

[BLACKFINTURKEY]

I make my own also out of lead like yours and cement also for break aways. Even 12oz won't hold on bad conditions. Good job how do you get the copper sleeves off? Mine always stick.

[alwaysinshorts]

You don't. You now have a cool copper outside

[RiverRat00]

That's awesom workman

[Winman]

I make my own also out of lead like yours and cement also for break aways. Even 12oz won't hold on bad conditions. Good job how do you get the copper sleeves off? Mine always stick.

When I lived in Brownsville,we used to surf fish in Mexico about one weekend a month. We made our spider weights by taking a bucket of damp/wet sand ,take a round rod,broom stick up to a baseball bat size..use it to punch a mould hole in the sand....insert the twisted wire into the hole ,then fill it up with melted lead.

[ArcheryNerd]

I usually head down to surf side maybe a mile north or south of the Peregine town homes. we do pretty well there and with the family it's not one of the more nuts beaches. I am probably the only one you will ever see in a blue Subaru and a big orange Malibu two ocean kayak. I think we will be down there the 8th and 9th this weekend if the surf isn't too bad.

[sharkhunter]

That will work. I made a 10 hole mold out of oak and it works great. Just clamp two pieces of oak or pine together and drill the desire hole as big as you want in the center of the two Boards. Drill holes for the wire legs and clam together and pour away. I have one mold I can pour 10 8 oz weights at a time and another for 16oz pie shaped weights for my shark rigs that could probably hold a boat at anchor.