A Fishing Line, a Small Town by the Water, and Fifteen Years of Dedication

We come from Heze, Shandong—a place of winding rivers and interwoven waterways. Here, fishing isn’t just a sport. It’s a way of life.

Fifteen years ago, in a small courtyard, we started doing one thing: **tying the best fishing rigs, by hand.**

Craftsmanship That Flows Through the Fingertips

Every hand-tied rig begins with the line. We test dozens of varieties—tensile strength, knot retention, abrasion resistance—until we find the one that performs consistently, reliably, trip after trip.

Tying the hook is the heart of the craft. It takes an artisan three years of practice to achieve consistent length, precise gap, and a knot that holds tight without damaging the line. Left hand holding the thread, right hand guiding the hook—wrapping, tightening, adjusting. Every motion depends on feel. No machine can replicate it.

We don’t work like an assembly line. One artisan completes only a few dozen rigs a day. Each one is tested under simulated fishing tension before it leaves our hands. Because we know: when you’re on the water and a fish takes the bait, you’re not just holding a line. You’re holding our care and commitment.

Most of the young people in our town have moved to the city. But we chose to stay and keep this craft alive. Because we believe **there are things machines cannot make, and connections that only hands—and hearts—can create.**

From Rigs to a Complete Fishing Kit

Starting with rigs, we gradually expanded to include everything you need for a day on the water.

We make fishing floats—from reed and balsa wood, shaped and finished by hand through twelve separate steps, tuned to stand steady and respond sensitively on the water.

We make bait buckets and water buckets—from mold to finished product, testing wall thickness, handle comfort, lid seal. They’re built to be your reliable companion on every trip: carrying fish, holding water, organizing gear. No shortcuts.

Every product follows the same principle: **handmade, durable, and built with care.** No unnecessary frills. No excess decoration. Just honest gear that anglers can count on.

 How We Believe Fishing Should Be

We believe fishing isn’t about conquest. It’s a quiet conversation—with the water, with the fish, with yourself.

In a world that prizes speed and excess, we choose to be slow. We don’t make disposable gear. We don’t chase the fastest catch. We don’t encourage taking more than you need. What we believe is simple: **take what you need, and leave the rest.**

That’s why we work with natural materials—reed, balsa, bamboo, cotton thread—things that come from the water and can return to it. That’s why we use minimal, recyclable packaging. And that’s why every order includes a small booklet we call *The Angler’s Code*, with simple guidance on reducing your footprint and practicing catch and release.

We know this much: a clean piece of water is worth more than a hundred fish. **We protect the craft. We protect the water.** That’s the quiet promise of a brand born and raised along these shores.

My Story

My name is Wang. I grew up in a small town in Heze, Shandong.

When I was a child, my grandfather often took me fishing on the river behind our village. He had a rig he’d used for years—the hooks were worn, the line had been replaced more than once, but the knots were always the same: simple, strong, dependable. He’d sit on his stool, barely speaking, watching the float with a focus I didn’t understand at the time. Fishing seemed quiet. Almost boring.

Later, I moved to the city for work. Every now and then I’d stop by a tackle shop, but something always felt missing. The rigs were fine—standard, cheap—but they were machine-tied. They lacked something I couldn’t name.

Fifteen years ago, I returned to my hometown. I found the old craftsmen still there, still tying rigs and making floats—but there was less work now, and no young people wanted to learn. That’s when I realized what I’d been missing. It wasn’t a rig. It was a feeling: the warmth of something made by hand, touched by the water I grew up with.

So I stayed. Together with those craftsmen, I started Tab. We tie rigs, shape floats, make buckets. Fifteen years now. No outside investment. No aggressive expansion. Just one day at a time, one piece of gear at a time, made as well as we know how.

I still go to the river almost every day to test our rigs. Every time I land a fish on a line I tied myself, I think of my grandfather. **I don’t make fishing gear to change the world. I do it because I want to share this craft—born by the water, passed down through hands—with anglers everywhere.**

 From Heze, to the World

Today, Tab products have crossed oceans and found their way into the hands of anglers around the world.

But no matter how far they travel, every hand-tied rig, every float, every bucket still comes from our small town in Heze—from the people who have spent their lives by the water, and their hands in the craft.

If you believe, as we do, that fishing is more than catching—that it’s a connection to water, to nature, to something quieter inside yourself—

Then welcome. Our story begins at the water’s edge.

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*Fifteen years. Hand-tied rigs. From Heze, to the world.*

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