Mike Schoonveld: Fishing with lead core line isn’t always simple, but it catches fish

Once upon a time, Chuck, an employee at a company that manufactured Dacron fishing line, popped into his supervisor’s office on a Monday morning and said, “Hey boss, got a minute? I’ve got an idea for you.”
“What’s up?” said the boss, tilting back in his desk chair.
“You know how our Dacron line is hollow and how sometimes we set up the machines to braid the line around a slightly thicker strand of Dacron to make it stronger? How about we weave the Dacron around a thin lead wire?”

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