Of all carp materials available on the market period, the ‘end-tackle’ products often make the difference between catching or blanking. Especially on pressured waters, carp have developed themselves to true artists of detecting the angler’s set-up. After a long development – and testing period Strategy is proud to start a new revolution of rig & set-up camouflage: The Fuzz. This system will definitely put more fish on the bank! Read more...

Tackle wholesaler SPRO has committed itself for the coming 3 years to become the official sponsor of the 4 Dutch national sea fishing teams – Coast seniors, Coast ladies, Coast juniors and the Boat fishing team – and the National matches organized by Sportvisserij Nederland. Read more...

Many exciting products are kept in one of the storage rooms of the Rute&Rolle magazine office. In the search of hooklink material, my eye fell on a stylish black suit. Lightweight, two piece… that made a good impression! I quickly asked my colleagues if I could test the suit and they agreed as it was my size, but I had to write an article about it. A promise was made. Read more...

With great pride we can announce that Andreas Veltrup has been officially added to the SPRO consultancy team from January 2009. Andreas Veltrup is a well known angler in the Norwegian fishing scene. As one of the longest serving fishing guides in Norway he has an incredible experience and never lasting enthusiasm for this challenging fishing style. Besides sea fishing, he is also a passionate fly angler. Read more...

Both national as international Leo Koot is known as one of the most experienced feeder anglers in the world. This specialisation has mainly been created because the common Dutch watertypes such as canals and rivers are perfectly suitable for this type of fishing. Not only ‘traditional’ species such as bream, roach and rudd are targeted with the feeder, because of the improved water quality ‘new’ species such as barbel, chub and ide are often caught as well. Foreseing the different conditions on the waterside, a range of 4 specific feeder series are developed in close conjunction with Leo Koot. Leo himself and the other SPRO teammembers fish with full confidence! Read more...

The Strategy X-Ray has been designed with the view to select the best available quality of each rod components and to carefully adapt this to each other to create an optimal balance, action and casting capacity. Read more...

You couldn’t miss it during the last years: the SPRO Saltwater team has won an incredible amount of matches! What about both individual and team results on World Championships Boat and Coast? Also in the Dutch competition the team members make victory after victory. A combination of drive, knowledge and the very best materials bring them to the best results. One of the ‘tools’ of the team members is presented below... Read more...

Football Jigs become more and more popular for vertical and diagonal jigging. Fast fo fish with, incredibly stable and easy to mount. The rounded corners and positioning of the eye assure a diagonal placement of the hook, that optimalises the hook-up ratio. Read more...

Special fishing clothes used to be one of the last things to buy as a sports fisherman, but in the modern days no concessions are made anymore! As a Japanese manufacturer of the most highworthy fishing products, a broad range of cloting is also part of the extensive sortment. For 2009 we are proud to present the new Dry-Maxx® Rain Jacket; a rain jacket that is so stylish that the angler will not only wear it in fishing! Read more...

Bill Siemantel, professional Black Bass angler from America and SPRO consultant, has focused himself on the development and fine-tuning of the new SPRO BBZ-1 4” Shad. Originally developed for Black Bass fishing, but also perfectly suitable for pike, zander and perch fishing… the first catches of ASP are even reported as well! Read more...

I want to inform you about the special catch we have made last year on light material in the Filipines. The fishing set consists of the RedArc Tuff-Body 10200 casting reel and a telespin 180 ML spinning rod. Read more...

‘Winning in front of your own audience’...., a think that happens regularly with soccerteams. In some other sports this is rare that an important international match takes place so close to your home. In the past years the saltwater championships have been fished in Brazil, France and Belgium. Organised by Sportvisserij Nederland and sponsored by SPRO, the World Championship Boatfishing 2008 was organised in the Dutch Colijnsplaat. Read more...

With every (inter)national saltwater event it seems to have become ‘normal’ that the SPRO Saltwater team settles itself in the upper regions. With individual world titles Boat and Coast, and both National and World titles for teams in the pocket, the expectations for the team during the Dutch Championships Coast were also very high. Read more...

On the largest German fishing tradeshow, the ANSPO, that was held in Mannheim this year, the RedArc was again chosen as number 1. Read more...

The World Championship Casting was held in Kraków, Poland this year. Our SPRO consultant Jana Maisel had an incredible result at this tournament again! She won 6 new World Champion titles and several bronze medals as well. Read more...

For weeks we have carefully checked the water levels of the French rivers, which kept on rising from the end of January. It finally became 22 February when the water levels stagnated and we could organize our Catfish Trip. Read more...

During one of our various French catfish trips we (Pascal Faber, Stefan Weirich and Patrick Gölz) thought of a set-up for effective static catfish angling in fast flowing rivers such as the rivers Rhone and Saone. Read more...