Fishing sinker and then crimped closed. This feature makes adding and removing the weights easy and quick. Bullet sinkers are bullet-shaped and used widely on largemouth bass fishing for rigging plastic worms "Texas-style". Dipsey sinkers are ovate or egg-shaped and are attached to the fishing line with a loop of brass wire embedded in the sinker. Bank sinkers are long and ovate and have a small hole at the top for the fishing line to thread through. A claw sinker consists of a sinker weight which is typically of round shape, and a number of metal wire spikes grouped around the sinker
Sinker (baseball) regarded either ability as a "gift from heaven." Bill James cites Curt Simmons as the first pitcher to be able to throw both sinkers and rising fastballs, apparently indicating that it was not known how to make a pitch sink and how to make one hop. Zach Britton, Marcus Stroman, Charlie Morton, Dallas Keuchel, Jake Arrieta, Jim Johnson, Rick Porcello, Kendall Graveman, Sonny Gray, Jeurys Familia, Tanner Roark, and Mike Leake are current major league players who rely heavily on the sinker. One method of throwing the sinker is to simply grip the baseball along the two seams and throw