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TACKLING A NEW HOBBY
Level up your fishing with a custom jig made by a Starved Rock Country native Story by Stephanie Jaquins, Photos provided by Dan Bosi
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an Bosi’s hobby of making jigs started when he was trying to make the best use of a lead pipe. His dad had found 20 foot of lead pipe in one of his rental properties and offered it to Bosi, who was thinking of a way to put it to use. He bought a pot to melt the lead and one plastic jig mold in summer 2017, with plans of making jigs for himself. “I enjoyed it and I just kept buying more molds,” says the Starved Rock Country native, who taught himself using YouTube videos. He stuck to making jig heads for two years until his wife, Emily, and children, Isabel and Drew, gave him a mold for Christmas, expanding his repertoire to soft plastic baits. He eventually started selling them to people he knew and posting pictures of his work to social media. “It kind of took off from there,” he says. “Everyone started asking for it. That’s when I started mailing them out.”
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