This rod building guide to hook keepers covers the development of various hook keepers within the revolution of rod building, and the functional benefits of today’s best-selling models.
How Hook Keepers Provide More Protection
Despite the purpose of a hook keeper seeming constrained to its name, this tiny fishing rod accessory can have many functional benefits besides just housing the hook’s pointy end. Varying in model as well as results, hook keepers were born from advancements in fishing practices as well as rod building concepts.
Hook keepers are common features on many fishing rods. Although these little components often go unseen, choosing the correct hook keeper for you can boost to your custom fishing rod and its performance with additional benefits. Hook keepers are known and named for housing the hook itself, but each model also performs to preserve the integrity of rod guides and ceramic insert rings.
After pulling the bait down to the initial stripping guide, some anglers mistakenly rest their hook on the rod guides. We don’t recommend this method for two reasons. First, make sure you take slack from the reel before prepping your hook for transportation because pulling the bait is one of the easiest ways to break your rod.
Second, the hook’s friction and tension on the guide’s frame or its ceramic insert ring causes severe reductions in both strength and performance. Preserve these high-performance and often expensive components by mounting a handy hook keeper on your custom rod. When it comes to hook keepers and their benefits, this is just the beginning because many models and their designated benefits can be found below.
Whether developed from sheer demand, alongside a fishing technique, or as an engineering innovation, hook keepers are a minor cost and construction with major improvements for any custom fishing rod.
The Standard Hook Keeper
Widely referred to as the standard, this stainless-steel hook keeper is a popular option given its basic benefits. To begin, its double footed design warrants a sturdy mount to the rod blank. This helps you trust the hook keeper to maintain the hook until its next use. As briefly mentioned before, the Standard Hook Keepers works hard to hold the hook, while preserving the integrity and performance of rod guides as well as their ceramic insert rings.
Standard Hook Keepers come in either small or large sizes that are available in black, gold, chrome, TiChrome, and TiGold. Standard Hook Keepers are components that can be chosen to look great, but perform even better.
The Single Foot Hook Keeper
The standard design satisfied many anglers, but others knew hook keepers could do much more. The answer was the Single Foot Hook…
