About Tiemco
Tiemco (TIEMCO LTD., 株式会社ティムコ) is a Japanese tackle company established in December 1969 in Tokyo to import, export, sell, and manufacture fishing tackle. Its head office is in the Kikukawa district of Sumida-ku, Tokyo. The company built its early business as the exclusive Japanese distributor for major foreign brands, taking on Fenwick rods in 1971, Orvis fly tackle in 1973, and Scientific Anglers/3M fly lines in 1980, and it opened one of Japan's first fly-fishing schools in 1976 to promote the sport domestically. It went public in 1996 and now trades on the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Alongside distribution, Tiemco developed its own products and is best known internationally for TMC fly hooks, made in Japan and launched in 1984, which are widely used by fly tiers worldwide. The company describes itself as dedicated to fly fishing, covering rods, reels, hooks, tools, lures, apparel, and accessories. Its own rod brand, EUFLEX, launched in 1994 as a flexible-action fly rod line. Tiemco also builds spinning rods for native trout under the TIEMCO brand, including the Path Prover and Enhancer families, and markets lures (TIEMCO LURES, Critter Tackle), Oracle fly reels, Sight Master polarized sunglasses, and the Foxfire outdoor clothing line. In 2017 it introduced the Fenwick ACES flagship bass rod series for the Japanese market.
What Tiemco is known for
Tiemco is best known as a fly-fishing specialist and as the maker of TMC fly hooks, a Japanese hook line used by tiers around the world. On the rod side it is recognized for the EUFLEX fly rods and for native-trout spinning rods such as Path Prover and Enhancer, as well as for being the long-time Japanese distributor of Fenwick, Orvis, and Scientific Anglers.