Do Some “Vicious Fishing” This Year
When new companies hit the market in the fishing industry they are always quickly evaluated making them prone to bashing or glorifying. Fisherman of all types maintain a tight circle of trust, passing their insight, opinions, and results across the TV, radio, web sites, message boards, magazine articles, and word of mouth. Even with fishing being primarily an individual sport, we share our information with others in an attempt to not see anyone fall on their face. Especially because of a bad product. For that reason, companies in the fishing industry either go away quickly because of initial bad reviews or they begin to grow as confidence in the anglers grow with stories of their success. In reality, anglers control the rise or fall of a business in this industry.
For Vicious Fishing, they haven’t had that problem. Vicious could possibly be the best fishing line that you have never heard of and if you haven’t heard of them, you have probably been taking the year off. But do not worry because if it is not me telling you about Vicious, it would be someone else telling you about the tournament winning lunker they landed or a proud dad bragging about his son’s first catch using Vicious fishing line.
Located in Pell City, Alabama and distributed by JBS Fishing, Vicious Fishing is the maker of premium fishing lines that include Co-Polymer, Fluorocarbon, High-Visibility Pan Fish, and Off-Shore, all of which are made right here in the USA. When I say made in the USA, I don’t mean that the line is made overseas and then shipped here to be spooled in the USA. I mean that when you use Vicious fishing line, you are getting a true product of the USA.
The first factor that drew me into trying their line was the price. I use fluorocarbon lines for just about every application besides topwater. Because of this I am always in the store buying more and more line. If anybody else reading this uses fluorocarbon line than you know that you aren’t getting out of the store with a filler spool of about 200 yds for less the around $14.00-$25.00 with most manufactures. Eventually you will get tired of paying that much. Desperate for relief from the inflated prices of the Fluorocarbon Market, I came across Vicious Fluorocarbon and was set back and somewhat skeptical when I saw it retailing at $9.99 for a filler spool of 250 yds. Without hesitation, I purchased a couple of spools fearing that it may have been a sale or clearance item. Upon further investigation I found out that it was nothing more than a great product at an affordable price. Now the only thing left to do was put it to the test.
On the first day I used the Vicious Fluorocarbon, one of the first things that I noticed was its limpness and low memory. Something that is hard to find in a good fluorocarbon line. Usually you will sacrifice abrasion resistance and line strength for limpness and low memory or vice versa. Not the case with Vicious. They have defiantly figured out the ingredient for including the best of both qualities. Upon further use and many fish later, I really wanted to get a good idea of its knot strength. If catching around 4 limits of fish in the heavy vegetation on the Potomac River without re-tying isn’t enough than try this. Going into my fifth limit without a re-tie, I hooked what would be my big fish of the day at around 5 1/2 lbs on 8lb. test and brought it into the boat no problem. After that fish I went ahead an re-tied believing that I had enough proof and to avoid leaving any fish injured in the process.
Throughout the remainder of the year I used Vicious Fluorocarbon line in every tournament I fished. I pulled 5lber’s out of 25 feet deep brush piles on a drop shot rig with 6lb test Vicious Fluorocarbon and horsed in 6 and 7 lber’s out of matted vegetation while punching the thickest stuff I could find using 20lb Vicious Fluorocarbon. My point. Great abrasion resistance, knot strength, low memory, and limpness all tied into one. This stuff works. It proves that high prices don’t always mean you will be getting the best.
Along with their fishing line, Vicious Fishing also offers a line of unique soft-plastics that I guarantee your bass have never seen before and an awesome line of apparel.
Vicious Fishing is relatively young and I am talking around 2 yrs. old, but since gaining the respect and backing from professionals like Jeff Reynolds, Jason Quinn, Stephen Browning, Brian Snowden, and Pete Ponds to name a few, Vicious has been on an uphill ride growing faster in a couple of years than most companies do in ten years. Don’t just take my word for it. Give them a try or check them out at www.vicious-fishing.com.
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