About Major League Shrimp
Major League Shrimp, which trades in Chinese as 蝦戰天下, describes itself as Asia's first competitive shrimp-fishing brand. Its stated purpose is to move 釣蝦, the Taiwanese prawn-pond pastime, from casual recreation into an organised competitive sport, and the company is a tournament organiser and a tackle maker in roughly equal measure.
The competition side runs through the MLS International Shrimp Fishing Invitational, staged with the Shrimp Fishing Culture Development Association. The first edition in 2024 drew 28 teams and 112 anglers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. The 2025 edition added an individual event alongside the team format and widened entry to five territories, taking in Malaysia and Vietnam. The company also operates a ranking system, a counter, a dealer directory of shrimp ponds and a teaching section, and its storefront switches between Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam and mainland China.
The rod catalogue is deliberately narrow: three ranges at present, all of them 7-section prawn poles built to the Taiwanese hardness scale rather than a power rating. Venom arrived first and sold out at launch. The SPEED range followed, themed on supercars down to the colourway names, and built on Toray 50T carbon with 45-degree four-axis cross reinforcement. Shrimp Battle Performance sits above both as a numbered limited edition. Beyond rods the company sells the rest of a competitive prawn-fishing kit: floats, long floats, PE main and leader lines, counterweight balances, rod rests and starter packs.
What Major League Shrimp is known for
Major League Shrimp is known first for running the MLS International Shrimp Fishing Invitational, the event that gave Taiwanese prawn fishing a cross-border competitive circuit. On the tackle side it is known for Venom, the MLSxVIPER collaboration rod that sold out on release, and for the SPEED range, whose supercar-themed colourways and 93.5H half-step stiffness were added specifically because competitors found 93H too soft and 94H too stiff. Shrimp Battle Performance is the halo product, limited to 310 units with only 299 sold and each rod individually numbered. Prices run from about $93 to $213, which places the range well above general-purpose Taiwanese prawn tackle such as Protako's 蝦竿 line.