Handy, I suppose you could if you wanted to, but the advantage of tin lures is that they don't need any enhancement. If they get a little dingy looking, all you have to do is polish them up or melt them down and pour them again. Once you get into lead or lead alloys like Joe Martins does with Pt. Jude lures, then you have to go to plating because of the rapid oxidation of the metal. Tin oxidizes very slowly. One of the things I learned doing this project is that tin ranks only behind platinum, gold, and silver as a precious metal. It's beautiful stuff to work with, and once you see it in the water, you'll forget all about chrome. I wish to hell it was cheaper, but that ain't gonna happen any time soon, especially with Salty sitting on a couple million tons of it. I'll bet as we speak, he's got a bunch of guys out there with Uzis and rottweilers standing guard over his stash.
