Galapagos; Bait with Japanese Enginuity

2025-03-14 2025-03-14

Ty Hasegawa

What is your impression of Japanese products in general? High quality, high durability, and so on. Something that makes the Japanese brand itself is the well thought designs.

Galapagos is the brand actively pursuing this direction.

The brand’s statement said that they “GO DEEP.” It stands for that they dive into the products to make it better and better. They firmly believe that Japanese designs and productions bring the fishing tackle better, in their word, to evolve.

And what they put emphasis on, additionally, is the joy of fishing. It combines with their belief on improvement to produce their goods. Further on, their ultimate goal is to enrich the Japanese fishing culture.

Products

This brand was established in Osaka, in 2021, with the Tairaba Stick (rod.) The first well sold product was the Grace 240F.

This lure swims on your will. It can work well in various techniques, from simple retrieve, fast retrieve, to deadly slow twitching. This versatility, or easy-to-operate, feature gained popularity.

The detail, the Japanese speciality, is on the joints. It looks simple but the angles of the connections are well calculated to perform in various actions. Both in the smooth S-shape swimming and in the silky slide action. There are two variations of tail. Standard tail is softer to make the lure very responsive, and harder (separately sold) one is to tune the swimming to be more straight.