ICAST 2011 | VMC Stepping up with Award Winning Terminal Tackle
Posted by Jason Sealock on Thu, Jul 14, 2011 @ 09:00 AM
Hot of the heels of VMC's award for Best of Show in the terminal tackle category for their new Spin Shot drop shot hooks, we stopped by to check out the cool terminal tackle they had on tap for 2012.
The Spin Shot overcomes one of the most frustrating problems with fishing a drop shot in deep water -- line twist. Anyone who has fished a drop shot much knows that as you quickly reel up your plastic from the depths to make your next cast or pitch, your bait spins like a propeller in the water and coils your line. Do this for a couple of hours, and your dropshot line has been reduced to a twisted slinky.
The new Spin Shot hook allows you to tie to the top of the hook and then tie a dropper line to your weight on the bottom of the hook and and the hook itself is free to spin on the arm that you've attached your line to. The result is no more line twist. We took and tested the drop shot and caught several fish and never had an issue with fighting fish, line twist, rigging and in fact we though our baits had a much more natural presentation.
The hooks come in sizes ranging from No. 8 to 1/0 and will sell for $3.99 a pack.
The other cool VMC product is tungsten. They have entered the foray of tungsten worm weights with their own line of sleeveless painted and unpainted tungesten bullet weights and flipping weights.
We're excited to fish these weights as we've long preached the benefits of using tungsten in fishing. The weights will retail from $4.49 to 8.99 depending on size.