
26/09/2025
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It all started with a boy... Rusting hammers and crunching pliers, metal sticks everywhere. A bunch of rudimentary pieces of machinery and a grinder to sharpen edges. And smoke, a lot of it, dust scattered all around. Tangled fishing lines hung on the walls. Water lapping on the bank in the front, as people gather on the porch to purchase fishing hooks in the small, bustling port of Poyang, China. Quite an accurate portrait of the tiny workshop overlooking the river where the 16-year-old boy of the Zhan family manufactured BKK’s first hook in 1856. All the way from Poyang, they're now available in South African tackle stores too 😉