Our Top 5 Best-Selling Fishing Tackle Items Right Now

Tackle is where every fishing trip is either made or lost. You can have the right boat, the right spot and the right tide, and still come home empty if your trace lets go or your rig is wrong for the depth. So instead of telling you what we think you should buy, we went through the last 90 days of real orders across our Fishing Tackle range and pulled out what our customers actually bought the most of.

Here are the five standouts — real sellers, real prices.

1. Siltlon Nylon Fishing Line, 500m / 1000m / 2000m — from $37.95

Our clear number one with 31 spools sold. This is longline nylon, bought by the hank rather than the pack — beach longliners, kontiki users and small commercial operators all run it because it is consistent, it does not kink out of the box, and one spool covers a whole season of re-rigging. The 1000m sits at $84.50 and the 2000m at $130.00, with a 500m option at $37.95 for anyone just getting set up.

Siltlon Nylon Fishing Line — see the rest of the Beach & Boat Longlines range.

2. Mono Nylon Spools, 15lb to 60lb — $10.00

26 spools out the door. Small, cheap, and the sort of thing that quietly ends up in every tackle box in the country. Six breaking strains from 15lb through to 60lb means you can grab a light spool for softbaiting traces and a heavy one for snapper rigs in the same order. At ten dollars a spool, most people buy two or three at once — and that is exactly what the order book shows.

Mono Nylon Spools, $10.00 NZD — more in Monofilament Nylon Line.

3. Hapuka Rig, Lumo Green Deep Drop — $35.00

19 bags sold, and this one is a proper finished product rather than a component — tied, ready to clip on and drop. It is built for hapuka, bass and bluenose down deep, where the lumo green attractor earns its keep in water with almost no light left. Buyers are boat crews heading out wide who would rather spend the fuel on fishing time than sit on the deck tying rigs.

Hapuka Rig Lumo Green, $35.00 NZD — full selection in Hapuka Hooks & Rigs.

4. Catch Pocket Rocket Tungsten Micro Jig — from $13.00

16 jigs sold and easily the most fun item on this list. Because tungsten is denser than lead, the Pocket Rocket gets down to the fish faster and holds its depth in current on lighter gear — which is why micro jigging has taken off with kayak and small-boat anglers. Snapper, kingfish, kahawai, trevally: if it eats a baitfish, it will have a crack at one of these. Larger sizes are $19.99.

Catch Pocket Rocket Tungsten Micro Jig — browse Catch Jigs & Lures.

5. Kilwell Chest Wader Cleat Sole, US 6 to US 14 — $109.99

11 pairs sold, and a good reminder that tackle is not only hooks and line. Cleated soles give you grip on slick river stone, which matters when you are wading a trout river or working a whitebait stand. Sizes run US 6 through US 14, so most families can kit out more than one person. Freshwater anglers and flounder spearers are the regular buyers here.

Kilwell Chest Wader Cleat Sole, $109.99 NZD

What the order book tells us

The pattern is clear: Kiwi anglers spend on the things that connect them to the fish. Line, traces, rigs and jigs move constantly, while big-ticket gear turns over slowly. It also says a lot of people are still tying their own — crimps, swivels and mono spools sat just behind these five, which is why we keep the components range as deep as the finished tackle.

Plenty of our tackle is marked export-ok, so if you are fishing out of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga or the Cook Islands and struggling to get line and rigs locally, get in touch and we will confirm what we can send your way.

Browse our full range at actionoutdoors.kiwi