Nothing feels as good as homemade!

So I finnaly decided to make my own assist hooks. The ones you buy sometimes feel to short and they aint protected enough. I must say im very happy with the results :), can't beat the feeling of having made them on ur own.

So this is my attempt using the easiest knot I have seen out there for making assist hooks.

All you need is a heatgun ( lighter?), shrink tubing, kevlar cord and obviously some hooks!

My choice was the cheapest possible heatgun I could find, some tubing that was cheap aswell (make sure you do not buy them to small, I think i took the ones around 6.4mm) . Then I went with Jigging Master monster hooks size 11 and YGK Galis Ultra Knot, kevlar cord size 30 (250 pound).

So step one, showing you the tools of the trade.

Here comes the second picture, I tried to make like a timeline so you can see the different steps to make them.

Basically all you do is make a simple overhand knot on the kevlar cord, make sure you stick the hook in from the top of the loop.

Then just tighten it and take the loop through the eye of the hook and tighten a bit.

Then put the shrinking tube on from the top, this is the trickiest part to making these assist hooks and sometimes it got extremely frustrating :) So be prepared for that, and a word of a advice, the hooks are razor sharp so be careful!

Last one on the right is the finished assist hook!

And yes... Down below is my work of art! They are all seeing the water soon only 26 days to go!