Flipping and pitching plastics around cover usually requires a flipping hook plastic keeper. Many hook designs come with a built on keeper, either bulky plastic or metal. Elite Series pro Terry “Big Show” Scoggins prefers making his own plastic keeper with heavy fishing line. In his opinion, his simple heavy uni knot keeper provides more flexibility when rigging plastics, and makes for a more elegant presentation overall. This quick 1-minute tip will give you the ability to make your own flipping and pitching hooks in the boat, and in less than 30 seconds.
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How to Make Flipping Hook Keeper in 30-Sec
- Jason Sealock
- Aug 29, 2016
Jason Sealock
Currently working as Senior Advisor to Wired2fish. Former COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners. Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure. He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP. He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.
