Long ago when i first bought these spinnerbaits, i saw the trailer hook and thought, why in the world are these things on here?

So i broke the plastic ring and took them off. Now i am kicking my self for it.

So i went out today to Cabelas and bought a pack of trailer hooks with the plastic rings. Now no matter what size hook i get, the plastic ring is too big to stay snugged onto the shaft of the hook. Squeezing it doesn't work. So i thought back to my air force days when we used to use heatsink plastic tubes for wire repair. when we applied hot air to it, it shrunk. So i thought well, maybe its one of those deals. That didn't work.

This was the last thing i could think of, and quite frankly, it stays on there, but it looks ridiculous which leads me to believe, i didn't put this on there correctly.