Do you ever read the WARNING label that comes on the back of fish hooks you buy?  In case you missed it here is an example off of a package.  WARNING: This product contains lead, a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects and other reproductive harm.  Of course every angler knows that; however, Mister Twister should be required to put one more on their hook packages.  WARNING: The Keeper Hook is Known to Hold Lures and Hook Fish!  Is that taking it a bit too far? I don’t think so.  I mean, Mister Twister designed this Keeper Hooks to hold on to lures without tearing or balling up on the hook point so you catch more fish.  Something has got to be done about this situation or anglers using these hooks will catch every fish that bites.

The Keeper Hook by Mister Twister (www.mistertwister.com) has a unique small keeper barb that holds lures in place while an angler fishes.  This design keeps the lure tracking straight, from balling up on the hook point, weedless, and keeping the bait from tearing.  For an angler just beginning threading a plastic worm Texas rig can be challenging; the Keeper Hook eliminates that problem, but Keeper Hooks can do more than that.  For instant, Keeper Hooks can be used for fishing soft plastic frogs, swimbaits, soft plastic jerkbaits, or wacky worming; in addition to any techniques like Carolina rigging or Texas rig.

 

Similar to other hooks available Keeper Hooks come in a variety of styles and sizes for any technique.  The original Keeper Worm Hook comes in 8 sizes and in bronze.  One of the new models of Keeper Hooks is the Red Keeper Worm Hook.  The red finish is popular for bass fishing and comes in 5 sizes.  Another is a Keeper Kahle Hook that comes in 3 sizes.  This hook is all the rage for fishing fat soft plastic lures that would otherwise slide down the hook without the small keeper barb.  The other hook by Mister Twister is the multipurpose Keeper Weight Worm Hook.  It comes in four sizes including 1/16-ounce, 1/8-ounce, 3/16-ounce, and 1/4-ounce.  Don’t let the name fool you.  It can be used for more than plastic worms like a weighted hook for swimbaits, casting a soft plastic frog long distances, weighting a soft jerkbait or stick bait to get it deeper in the water column, or swimming a lizard in the spring around spawning beds.  These weight hooks are also favorites among river anglers to keep their soft plastic lures down in the strike zone, but not hung up on the bottom or with anglers who fish southern reservoirs with milfoil that need just enough weight for their worm to tick the top of the grass to draw strikes.

Leave it to California to warn people on the dangers of sticking sharp objects in one’s mouth or using fishing hooks for toothpicks.  Next, California will require hook manufactures to put the warning label on each hook.  Can you visualize it?  The extremely small print on each hook warning fish of the dangers in consuming a fishing hook to their reproduction organs, being a source of birth defects, or how it could cause them to have cancer.  Just might as well add biting this hook could cause you to be reeled in by an angler.  For right now, California had better just make Mister Twister put this warning label on their Keeper Hooks: WARNING: The Keeper Hook is Known to Hold Lures and Hook Fish!