About Ripple Fisher
Ripple Fisher is a Japanese rod maker founded in 1997 and based in Nagomi-machi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The company began when a commercial fisherman asked for a blank powerful enough to stop fish he otherwise could not land, and its rods are hand-built in Japan for lure fishing across the size range, from big-game offshore work down to Aji and Mebaru light game.
The catalog splits into offshore game and shore game. Offshore covers GT and tuna casting and popping through GTXpedition, Aquila, BigTuna, Agile, OceanRidge, Selfish and Ultimo, with deep and speed jigging handled by OceanArrow. The Aquila series targets hard-pulling yellowtail, amberjack, GT and dogtooth tuna and carries both the recoil to work large-cup poppers and the range to throw stickbaits. Shore game runs from the RunnerExceed and RunnerEX LTD rock-shore casting rods, built to fight bluerunner yellowtail, kingfish, amberjack and GT off the rocks, through the MonsterImpact blackfin and surf line and the Avarice and SS Northern series, to the RealCrescent seabass and hirasuzuki rods. SS APIS and SSBB cover boat work.
Several flagship rods are engineered as multi-piece pack rods: GTXpedition is a three-piece GT model that collapses to 887 mm for PE6 and PE8 class fishing, and Aquila-EX carries the same travel construction. Blanks are built around Fuji guide trains, including Fuji SiC Ocean guides on the heavy jigging models, with power and bend tuned per discipline. Rods are rated by PE line class and gram lure weight and sold at Japanese-market yen prices.
What Ripple Fisher is known for
Ripple Fisher is best known for offshore GT and tuna rods and rock-shore casting rods for large pelagics. GTXpedition is its three-piece GT popping travel rod; Aquila and BigTuna cover GT, tuna, amberjack and dogtooth casting and popping; OceanArrow is the heavy speed-jigging line for tuna and marlin. On shore, RunnerExceed and RunnerEX LTD throw large lures for yellowtail, kingfish and GT off the rocks, MonsterImpact targets blackfin seabass and surf, and RealCrescent covers seabass and hirasuzuki. The pack-rod construction on GTXpedition and Aquila-EX makes them travel-ready for overseas expeditions. It cross-shops against other high-end JDM saltwater makers such as Zenaq, Tenryu, Smith and Yamaga Blanks-tier offshore brands.