If you didn’t go to ICAST or ever been to a seminar where Ivo Coia is speaking the Viper Spoon by Thundermist Lure Company maybe new to you. It’s new to me, but will soon be one of my favorite spoons for trolling and casting. The Viper Spoon is an innovative casting spoon which gives the lure or bait incredible and irresistible action. It’s a versatile spoon that can be fished in a number of different ways depending on the time of year and species of fish you are trying to catch.

Some spoons just catch your eye and you know that it will catch fish while other lures just catch anglers. The Viper Spoon is one that catches fish. “The Viper Spoon is the perfect combination of flash, flutter, and bait or lure; it’s very enticing,” said Ivo Coia, CEO at Thundermist Lure Company (www.thundermistlures.com). It’s enticing is an understatement. A combination of a premium flutter spoon with a red prism eye with colorful beads, solid, welded stainless steel rings, premium single-strand titanium line rigged with Mustad Ultra-Point hooks. “It’s really the ultimate trolling spoon; the double jointed design allows the spoon and trailer to have an independent action from each other. So you get two actions in one lure. Plus it can be trolled at various speeds and depths,” said Phil Coia, President of Thundermist Lure Company. Ivo Coia concurred with Phil Coia. “There is so many ways to fish a Viper Spoon. You can troll it with a diver with or without a planer board, troll it with a downrigger, troll or drift by flat lining, with a bottom bouncer, 3-way swivel and sinker, with a 3-way swivel and bottom bouncer, with a alternative 3-way rig and sinker, with lead core line or just cast it from shore or a boat,” Ivo explained.

The majority of other spoons that anglers can buy are not made to have anything added to the hook, but adding a lure or bait to the Viper Spoon just increases its action and appeal. “In fresh water, an angler can add a night crawler, bait fish, cut-bait strip, leech, crawfish, skein, sardine, mackerel, anchovy or herring; in saltwater, an angler can add squid, cut-bait strip, bait fish, worm shrimp, eel, sand eel, clam, sardine, mackerel, anchovy, or herring; in both fresh and saltwater artificial soft plastics can be added. The advantages of adding artificial soft plastics are you can change color, size, or action quickly. Plus lots of artificial soft plastics now come scented to increase the number of strikes,” said Ivo Coia. The lure or bait gets added to the hooks located behind the beads. These hooks are attached to premium single-strand titanium line. “The superior titanium line greatly reduces “cut-offs” from toothy fish and is resistant to corrosion and kinking,” said Coia.

The Viper Spoon is available in five colors, five sizes and two models. That’s 50 different lures. Color patterns include: silver, gold, bleeding pearl chartreuse, green mackerel, and blue sardine. The bleeding pearl chartreuse Viper Spoons have a 24 karat gold back, the green mackerel and blue sardine Viper Spoons have a genuine silver back. The Viper Spoon comes in either a beaded or Bucktail model.

The Viper Spoon is ready to fish anytime. All you have to do is add your favorite lure or bait to the hooks and you are all set to start fishing.