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Snowbee's new, lightweight Travel Vice is a beautifully engineered piece of kit, with some innovative design features.

Packing down into a neat moulded Carry Case, measuring just 9½” x 8” x 2”, the kit includes a small, heavy pedestal base into which the main vice head stem fits. The Vice head is precision engineered from lightweight Aluminium and offers a full rotational facility, which can be easily adjusted for tension, or locked up completely, if not required.

The hardened steel jaws have an adjuster screw at the tip, for primary adjustment and then a quick, simple cam-lock lever, to set the hook. This powerful system offers a 4.5:1 purchase, allowing any size of hook to be held securely. The entire jaw assembly can be slid up or down, by means of a simple grub screw (allan key supplied) so adjustment can be made, depending on the gape of the hook. This allows complete rotational symmetry along the centre line of the main rotating shaft.

For the travelling angler, where weight is all important, the heavy pedestal base can be left behind, as the carry case has an ingenious 2nd stem mount, moulded into the corner. In this mode, the entire kit weighs just 490g (overall weight, including base 1227g).