Okay everybody, today's video is going to be making a soft float hook. Now a couple years ago I had a video on making a float hook and this was kind of a derivative of what 311 Polped had on his channel when it was up on YouTube and he used to use pair floats and I decided to use a corky instead of a pair float but the truth of matter is this is a little bit of a bugger to make. You know I had to drill a help with a drill bit and it still got beat up pretty bad by the by the crab. So if you watched my video called Big Pop and O Rig floats you saw how easy it was to make up floats out of flip flops and I thought you know I think we've got a good purpose for these now. Quite a bit larger than the last floats I had in the original video and I thought you know wouldn't it be nice if we could make a float hook that wouldn't get tore up by the crabs okay it's got great floatation ability and once an old timer told me that when a fish goes to a bite you know they might nip at something first and a float like this is very flesh like you know if they're coming in fast they might think it's a sand fling. The whole purpose of the float hook is it's just it's less hardware you know all you've got is this float you know if you look at some of my rigs that I make you know I've got a float on there and I've got a bead and you know it's quite a bit of hardware so if you want to minimize your hardware and still have floatation you've you've got to make a float hook and that's where they became popular so and all I did with this is I made the floats and after I made the floats I taken a skewer one of these floats on one of these sputnik sinkers okay and that puts a nice hole and after I get it skewered all we have to do is drop a hook into it and I'll show you how to do that let's talk a little bit about the hooks now if we if we use a circle hook it's just not going to work for this this is this is a kale hook now this particular hook is a size two mustad and that's a good size hook I like that now you could use a little bit bigger hook you could use a a one-ought wide-gate mustad if you're targeting a little bit bigger fish like black drum but I like that size two and keep in mind that you know don't confuse a size two with a two-ought a two-ought hook is going to be huge compared to a size two and these happen to be stainless they're not very fish friendly you may want to go with a black carbon or even the gold hooks would be pretty fish friendly too so but getting back to the the circle hook would not work good for this application because we we wouldn't have any distance between the hook I mean you can see that you would lose a lot of bites and that's why we need that wide gap on the kale hook to get it done okay so let's show you how easy it is to make one of these float hooks first thing you want to do is skewer that float on whatever you have I use the spot Nick once you get that take that number two kale hook and by the way it's a three seven one six zero on the style if it's a gold it's going to be a GL if it's going to be a stainless it'll be an ass and I'm not sure for the black carbon it's probably be your BC but anyways just lubricate the end of your hook and push it through that hole that you made okay make sure that hook is all the way at the end get rid of any debris and rotate that float make sure that you've got the widest spot between your hook and the float and now once you got that just go ahead and grab your hot glue gun and you're gonna start loading it up and you know don't worry about using a lot it's gonna hold a lot better you want to make sure that you're gonna have a cone when you're done and also make sure that you get around the backside of that hook too loaded up pretty good it's about it there you know that's a that's a nice cone shape you might have a few hairs you're gonna have to clean up but that's it you know reposition that hook if you have to by rotating that float so you get the widest gap possible and that's it just let it dry and you've got yourself a float hook if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our popin' o' brownie channel and that will do it for this video