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Tico Tackle was created from a love of fishing and our Costarican heritage. Costaricans are known around the world by their nickname "Ticos", so it seemed natural to make it our company name. Our love of fishing has given us the desire to make the best custom made fishing products we can produce. All our products are custom made by hand at our home for fishermen just like us. We use the exact tackle and gear we make when we go fishing. Our dream is to share our efforts and quality fishing products with other fishermen.
Pura Vida!
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Custom Bamboo Gear
All are products are constructed from bamboo blanks. We personally hand pick our gaff blanks from our distributor in California as well as when we are in Costa Rica. We use two bamboo types. Costa Rican bamboo from the species Bambu Aurea and Guadua as well as Calcutta Bamboo (Dendrocalcamus species) from Asia.
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Costa Rican style bamboo has been used in construction and fishing for years. It is known for its strength, flexibility and being light. Its physico-mechanical properties make it famous for resistance to the movements of earthquakes that occur in Costa Rica. People say, "bamboo that dances with movement."
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Calcutta Bamboo comes from the regions of Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. It is known as "Iron Bamboo" due to it being extremely strong and flexible.​ Calcutta Bamboo has been used in commercial and recreational fishing in Asia for hundreds of years and is a staple in the gaffs used by the California tuna fishing fleets. We work with the same Calcutta bamboo gaff blanks used by the tuna boats on the National Geographic show, Wicked Tuna for gaffing bluefin tuna.
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Let us make your customized gear
Tico Tackle can help you customize your gear to your specifications. We strive to deliver you a durable and eye-catching product. Our customers have the ability to choose their desired color schemes, decals, hooks sizes and styles, grips, etc. We have done everything from basic wrapping to exotic snake skin wraps.
Our customers have said that our gaffs are "a work of art." We even have repeat customers who have bought identical gaffs just to display in their house, office and on their boats.
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