# Fishing Tackle Manufacturers in China | Verified Data

> Where Chinese fishing tackle is made, what each cluster is good at, and the numbers behind it, with cluster-level specification and compliance detail.

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Tackle sourcing starts with the cluster, not the factory list. Pick the cluster that makes your product family, read its specification standard, then ask for a price against a band. Which clusters make these products? Weihai, Shandong Rods, hard lures and metal jigs. The deepest rod supply chain in China. Guan, Hebei Rods and accessories at a lower cost base, for volume on known specifications. Xianxian, Hebei Lures and value rods. A newer supply chain, useful as a price reference. How do the three clusters compare on the numbers that decide an order? Cluster choice is a trade between tooling depth, cost base and how easy the supply chain is to audit. Records are published per factory, so a cluster average is never a quotation. Measure Weihai, Shandong Guan, Hebei Xianxian, Hebei Primary strength Rods, hard lures, metal jigs Rods and accessories at volume Lures and value rods Share of global fishing rod output Roughly 60%, per industry reporting Not a rod-first cluster Not a rod-first cluster Tooling depth Deepest - the oldest rod supply chain Moderate Newer, still building Best used for Programmes where specification risk is highest Cost-driven volume on known specifications An independent price reference Verification runs Per factory, 4 verification gates, every 90 days Per factory, 4 verification gates, every 90 days Per factory, 4 verification gates, every 90 days What do the reference price bands look like by sub-category? Reference price bands by sub-category, aggregated from 62 sampled listings. Basis must be confirmed per quotation (FOB port or EXW factory). Sub-category Sample size Reference price band (US$ / unit) Median low MOQ band (pcs) Category Fishhook 9 0.07 – 2.40 / piece 0.65 100 – 2,000 Fishing Accessories Spoon & Spinner 6 0.31 – 6.00 / piece 1.25 50 – 500 Fishing Lures Other Hard Lure 6 0.56 – 12.04 / piece 2.95 20 – 500 Fishing Lures Soft Lure 6 0.20 – 3.85 / piece 1.55 50 – 1,000 Fishing Lures Hard Lure 6 1.85 – 3.20 / piece 2.60 100 – 100 Fishing Lures VIB 6 0.24 – 2.50 / piece 1.39 100 – 500 Fishing Lures Minnow 6 0.37 – 3.17 / piece 1.40 50 – 500 Fishing Lures Metal Jig 5 0.97 – 2.01 / piece 1.39 100 – 200 Fishing Lures Fishing Rod 3 9.15 – 132.55 / piece 28.05 20 – 100 Fishing Rods Crankbait 3 0.30 – 0.85 / piece 0.66 200 – 500 Fishing Lures Octopus Skirt 3 0.08 – 2.80 / piece 0.98 100 – 2,000 Fishing Lures Fishing Accessory 3 0.62 – 60.00 / pack 9.62 5 – 200 Fishing Accessories How big is the Chinese fishing tackle export market? How big is the Chinese fishing tackle export market? China exports under HS heading 9507 — fishing rods, hooks, reels and artificial bait. Source: UN Comtrade reporter data for China, retrieved via the official API. Measure 2024 2023 Change All fishing tackle (HS 9507) US$1.93 bn US$1.77 bn +9.0% Fishing rods (HS 950710) US$0.66 bn US$0.62 bn +6.5% Fish hooks (HS 950720) US$0.11 bn US$0.11 bn flat Destination countries served 196 197 -1 Largest single destination US$546 M US$445 M +23% Rods account for about 34% of the total and hooks about 6%. The largest single destination takes roughly 28% of the 2024 total — which is why the export markets already on a supplier record are worth reading before you ask for a price. Who supplies the United States? US imports under HS heading 9507 in 2024, by source country. Source: UN Comtrade reporter data for the United States, retrieved via the official API. Source 2024 import value Share of total China US$538 M 59% Japan US$74 M 8% Malaysia US$53 M 6% Viet Nam US$42 M 5% All other sources (65 countries) US$199 M 22% Total US imports US$906 M 100% The United States bought US$906 M of fishing tackle under HS 9507 in 2024 from 69 source countries. China supplied US$538 M of it — 59% of the total, and roughly 7 times the next largest source. That concentration is why specification discipline matters more than factory discovery: the factories are not hard to find, the comparable quotation is. Figures retrieved from UN Comtrade (reporter China and United States, HS 9507, 2024) and aggregated across partner countries. They are historical customs values, not offers. How should you choose between the three clusters? Pick the cluster by product, not by price. A lure programme in a rod cluster pays for capability it cannot use. Get a band from each cluster for the same specification before choosing; a single quote tells you nothing about the market. Normalise 3 fields first - unit, order quantity and basis (FOB port or EXW factory) - or the comparison is meaningless. Read the export markets on the record. A factory already shipping to your market has cleared its compliance route once. Re-run the 4 verification gates on any factory that is new to you , in any cluster, however large it looks. Re-check after 90 days. Capacity, MOQ and freight move, and the record date is the only warning you get. What should be in place before you ask for a price? The product family and sub-category, stated as specifically as you can manage. The order quantity you would actually place, not a range. Hardware named, not described: an owner-style hook is not a specification. Colourway against a physical or measured reference, with the tolerance stated. The packaging format, because retail packaging changes both the unit cost and the MOQ. The destination market, because it decides the compliance route and the duty treatment. Where does the detail live now? This page is the hub. Each decision belongs to the page that owns it: What can be made, and how a catalogue is navigated — Product catalogue What has to be locked in the specification — the three cluster pages above HS codes and market compliance — the same three cluster pages What a price should be — Reference price bands Which factories are published — Verified supplier directory Terms that decide an order — Sourcing glossary Which suppliers are currently verified? Only factories that passed all 4 verification gates appear in the directory . Records that fail are excluded by the build rather than published as pending, so the directory can be short without being wrong. Every record carries the date its gates were last run, on a 90-day re-check cycle.