Purchase a mold and cast your own sinkers. I've never seen 14 ounce cannon ball sinkers commercially available

 

Just use 12oz on the back rods and 16oz up front. Folks using 14oz cannonballs probably made their own molds


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There was a guy selling them on a popular Facebook fishing group several months ago. Might try that avenue. As for me, 16 ounce in the Columbia and 12 at Drano worked fine.

 

I have a container of all different sizes 2 to 12.If want 16 oz l put a couple 8 on my oversized snap,if I wanted 14 i might put a 10 and 4 on together,etc etc etc.

 

I like the 14oz option as well. I have a few left that sinker Steve made for me but I will need some soon as well. Have never seen them for sale and will probably have to pour my own.

 

i wonder if you cut off a piece of the 16 oz sinker could it be made to be 14 oz. is that possible

 

Thanks for the info and suggestions. I'm not handy enough to make my own (and don't find molds available for 14 oz cannonballs, as opposed to bank and egg sinkers). Cutting down a 16 oz. sounds like a good option to try -- and less awkward than putting on 10+4 or 6+8.

 

There's a guy in Goble(Rainier) that makes them. He's on Facebook. PM me for his name. I don't want to put his name up on the board without his permission. At least he was still making them a year ago when I traded him some lead for weights.

 

I have some I got at the sportsman's show. One thing ya gotta understand is, just because someone is using "something' doesn't mean that's the only thing that'll work. Think out of the box. The only thing that matters is depth. How you get there doesn't mean a whole lot.

 

The sinker police won't ticket you if you use a different kind of 14 oz sinker with your pro-troll.

 

Bobs in Longview has them.

 

If you've never actually weighed all your sinkers, you may be in for a big surprise.

You might have some 14 oz leads already.

 

This.

I've bought 16 oz cannonballs that actually weighed 14 oz. And 1 oz that weighed 3/4 oz. Just examples. When lead weights are off spec, they often tend to be light. Both the mold and metal purity can affect this.

Turns out, when you start weighing stuff, you find it is rare for fishing products to consistently weigh as advertised. But it also only rarely matters.

 

We had a machinist make us a 14oz. sinker mold years ago. Its nice to have the option and we pour all our own, so why not.

But yeah, depending on the alloy of lead you have the weight can be variable. But then the premise is still the same, cut the gap between 12 and 16 in half. Regardless of alloy, the 14oz. mold achieves this.

 

Or just use the 16 and troll a bit faster. The speed won't make much difference when using protrolls and spinners.

 

fish field might have them call first.........

 

If you add 2 marbles to your 16 oz lead mold when you pour you will have 14 oz leads

 

I'm pretty sure there's a Walleye Club selling them at the sportsman show every year.

 

Thanks for all the tips and suggestions, everyone! Fish Field doesn't have them and the guy I talked to there confirmed that they are not made commercially (no 18 oz, either, he told me, although I wasn't looking for those). I wasn't desperate for the 14 oz'ers, and didn't think I couldn't fish successfully without them, it just got me really curious that I saw iFishers posting here refer to them, but I couldn't find them for sale anywhere.

I will follow up on some of the other leads and meanwhile I'll continue to use my 12 oz'ers.

Now on to pursuing the fish and not the sinker!

 

Portland Marine has 14oz weights sitting on their counter as of Friday.