Santiago
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What's up with this reel?
I cruise the FFO website a few times each month just to see if they have anything decent on sale and all of their casting/trolling reels have this
statement - the spinners do not. Anyone know what they are talking about?
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bajaguy
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Probably put there by some disgruntled wife
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woody with a view
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contains lead, or similar...
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Iflyfish
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It kills fish??
Iflyfish
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castaway$
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Made in China, Nuff said
Live Indubiously!
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woody with a view
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BTW, what's FFO?
found it.
http://www.ffo-tackle.com/
[Edited on 11-14-2009 by woody in ob]
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Taco de Baja
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Welcome to Nanny-fornia. To better to protect the citizens of the once great state, the people voted in Prop 65. AKA: The Safe Drinking Water and
Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.
Stupid voters were duped into passing this law based on its cute and fuzzy name. It was, of course, designed to promote clean drinking water and keep
toxic substances that cause cancer and birth defects out of consumer products and the environment. Unfortunately, since almost everything
could cause cancer and birth defects, the warning shows up on most products. Heck, we even have the warning on entrances to parking
garages…
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions
-Herbert Spencer
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bajabass
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Lead is the reason. All fishing products that COULD contain even miniscule amounts must be labeled now. AS of 1/1/2010 I am not allowed to use lead
wheel weights in my shop. They must be steel or zinc. The max fine is 2,000 dollars a day, for every day you are not in compliance.
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Santiago
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FFO: sorry - it's a webiste owned/used by the Berkley family of companies (Berkley, Fenwick, Abu-Garcia, RedWolf and now Penn, sigh) to dump their
overstock/last-year-model stuff. Occasionally I find a Fenwick rod at a decent price. Sometimes line is pretty good price. Most of the time prices
are too high.
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabass
Lead is the reason. All fishing products that COULD contain even miniscule amounts must be labeled now. |
I've often wondered just how much lead I got as a kid, growing up using my teeth to put on split-shot lead weights - musta done it a gajillion times.
Come to think of it, might esplain some recent behavior....
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Natalie Ann
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Lead..... you're safe, Santiago, so long as you don't lick the reel.
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Martyman
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Yeah Santiago;
Do not eat your fishing reel!!
Whatever happened to that guy that ate a whole car?
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
Yeah Santiago;
Do not eat your fishing reel!!
Whatever happened to that guy that ate a whole car? |
Heard he had trouble with his tailpipe.
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pascuale
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Dont buy anything shakespeare. very bad fishing gear.
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