History of KG Enterprise, INC.

Ed and Ken invent the Hound Dog Lure Retriever in the early 80’s so they wouldn't lose all their lures. After three or four years of making the Hound Dogs with rubber hand molds in Ed’s garage Ed automates the casting process. He finds an old indexing machine and several months later it is ready to make Hound Dogs. However, none of the famous mold makers they knew could make an aluminum mold to duplicate the Hound Dog. In the mean time several fishing lure companies needed to make a lot of jigs. Since Ed and Ken had the machine and knew someone who could make jig molds, they decided to cast jigs with Ed’s invention.

They quickly moved from the garage to Ed's mini storage building and finally to their present location. It didn’t take long to discover that getting new molds made was taking way too long for their customers. They took the plunge and bought a used CNC Bridgeport mill along with an old Mac Plus and some CADD software. 3D software was just coming out so in order to make the products their clients required they invested in a hot Mac IICX and the latest in 3D software. Ken was on his own as the 3D trainer knew very little about making the designs customers needed. All lead and soft plastic molds are now designed and cut in house.

Early customers such as Precision Lures, Mister Twister, Stan Sloan and Bobby Garland had some wonderful ideas that were turned into some of the great jigs and spinner baits that are still found in many tackle boxes today.

The original Hyper Striper Jig was born about this time and Bass Pro Shops included it under their Striper Stump Jumper Label. The Hyper Striper Tail and later the Hyper Umbrella trolling rig were added to form the basis for the Hyper Striper System, which is a very effective method of catching big stripers on artificial lures. Sales grew and KG Enterprise expanded adding seven automated casting machines to the three Ed originally made from salvaged parts.

Ed then started work on a state of the art soft plastic injection machine to meet customer demand for better products. Of course this meant another building and more injection machines. By now, KG Enterprise was producing a wide variety of products for many more companies including Action Plastics, Arkie Lures, Bass Pro Shops, Betts, Big Bite Lures, Bink's, Blakemore, Canyon Plastics, Crooked Creek, ISG, Jef International, Jewel Industries, Realures, Rinky Dink, Wapsi Fly, War Eagle, Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, and Zig Jigs

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