Putting in air in my rafts need help

[Joe Bifano]

I am putting in soak-er hose in the bottom of my rafts. As I am putting this in I am having trouble keeping them on the bottom becasue they float up. I tried sand in plastic snack bags and will try quart bags next.

I was wondering if I could use lead weights with fishing line to hold the hose down but I am affraid of the lead leaching into my water.  Does anybody know if lead will leach?

Is there any ideas you all might have to keep the hose down?

[Joe Bifano]

Herd back from another friend and he uses soak-er hose with no problems. He also uses re-bar in PVC with caps so nothing gets out and uses ties to the pipe. I will use re-bar and maybe do the PVC with caps and give it a try. Thanks all who replied.