A resident of the city of Padang, Muhammad Iqbal, started a fishing business in the wake of COVID-19.

Specialising in popping fishing hooks, his product is already being used by sea fishermen and ordered to numerous areas across Indonesia, after marketing on Facebook and Instagram.

Iqbal said, "I became unemployed. My profession as a motorcycle taxi driver was impossible with the lockdown system. While at home, I made a popping hook with tin, which I learned from YouTube and Google."

He added, "My hobby is fishing, but fish bait is quite expensive, so I made a popping fishing hook with the basic ingredient of tin."

Iqbal then uses gas stoves for melting moulds made from car wash, sandpaper, compressors, and dyes.

"The most important part of the process is being able to maintain the balance between shrewd and sensitive to colours that fish like," Iqbal said.

Due to limited manpower, Iqbal can currently only produce 800 to 1,000 products a month.

a resident of the city of Padang named muhammad iqbal managed to run a business making fishing rods namely making fishing popping hooks.

with the tools as they are, an ordinary man called iqbal managed to create a popping hook that was used by sea fishermen which he marketed online on facebook and instagram. just 4 months of exploring making hooks and selling them, the results of hooks have been ordered by anglers and shops in Indonesia such as Ambon, Natuna, Kalimantan Province, Gorontalo, and others.

Iqbal said "my business was diligent because I became unemployed after being stopped by his company and the profession as a motorcycle taxi driver was also impossible, with the lockdown system at home I just fad made a popping hook with tin which I learned from YouTube and Google".

Iqbal added "the business was also triggered because my hobby was fishing for the sake of suppressing the issuance of buying fish bait which was quite expensive, so I took the initiative to make a fishing line popping with the basic ingredients of tin which was melted and then printed with printing that I made from car wash" .

From the manufacturing scheme, it seems that Iqbal uses gas stoves for tin smelting, molds made from car wash, file, sandpaper, hollo gram stickers, compressors and paints or dyes.

"The most important process of making popping is to be able to maintain the balance of popping when on sandpaper, it must be shrewd and sensitive to colors that are liked by fish," Iqbal said.

due to limited equipment and manpower, currently iqbal can only produce 800 - 1000 pcs per month. one popping.

the video was recorded on July 7, 2020.