Fudo Hooks

Technically speaking, FUDO HOOKS predecessor dates back over a hundred years within Nishiwaki, a small city located at the heart of Japan's Hyogo Prefecture. Nishiwaki has a long and storied history of manufacturing the world's premier fishing hooks. FUDO started as a small town factory that produced premium iron made fishing hooks. FUDO started as a small town factory that produced premium iron made fishing hooks. Until that time, FUDO's sole sales avenue was via OEM channel, producing hooks that would be sold under other trade names.

It was not until 1996 that FUDO began manufacturing high carbon made hooks and stainless steel commercial/trolling hooks. Since then FUDO has continually improved processes and techniques to increase quality, strength, and other qualities that serious big game anglers desire.

2005 was a major turning point for the organization. It was during this year that the brand FUDO HOOKS was officially born, with the mission of providing high quality fishing hooks not only in Japan but to anglers and commercial fishermen around the world  while still staying true to OEM production.

Fudo is an English translation of two characters (Japanese kanji), "Fu" translates as "not" (left character) and the second (a compound character of "strength" (right most character) and "heavy" (middle character) combine to mean "move." In other words the characters used for "Fudo" combine to mean "not move" or in English, immovable, immovability or stability.