Secret Weapon Recoil Rig Works

The heart of this incredible fishing tackle innovation is a special elastic shock cord sheathed in Spectra that attaches between your sinker and lure.

This material is available only through Secret Weapon. It is called SpecTastic (from Spectra and elastic).The elastic shock core will stretch three times its length, allowing the angler to impart as much (or little) action to the lure as he desires.

The Spectra wrap is what gives the patented SpecTastic shock cord its 15-pound breaking strength and prevents the elastic band from snapping in use. Green, cotton fibers are combined with the Spectra to help camouflage the cord, making it easier to see for rigging, but less visible in the water.

The weight holds the rig in place, you put slight tension on your line between the weight and rod tip, and now the lure follows every rod tip movement in all directions. Even heartbeat vibrations are transferred from your hand to the lure. Unlike drop shotting where you jerk up and gravity slowly brings the lure back down, the movement of the lure now is equal in all directions, putting natural vibrations into soft plastic lures, even with them sitting in one spot. Lifelike motion can also be imparted to the lure while dragging the weight along the bottom. This gives ten times the action to your lure as any other rig.

Lure manufacturers have spent millions in R&D trying to mimic the action of the natural prey that fish feed on. They also spend huge sums trying to get the skirts, tails, or limbs of their lures to continue moving once the lure has come to rest. Very little continued movement has ever been archived after the lure stops moving through the water; yet anglers buy many millions of dollars worth of lures that supposedly move a little once the lateral action stops.

The reason is simple: natural prey moves around in one spot. Many game-fish will not hit something that is lying perfectly still unless they just watched it moving. This means you can't leave it in one spot for very long or the fish that watched it will ignore it.

Being able to keep a lure moving in one spot has been the "Holy Grail" of lure manufacturers and fishermen - to totally mimic live bait and fish a lure like live bait. The drop shot rig came closer than anything before it, and when the fish are deep and in clear water, the drop shot rig out-catches all other previous rigs even though the action is not totally natural.