Abstract: A hand held device for safely holding a fish hook or small component while a line or leader is attached, having a tapered, slotted pen barrel shaped member (10), which encloses a coil spring (30), which in turn encloses the sharp portion of a hook, a cap (10a) with an adapted pocket clip (20) and a line cutter (21). The device safely assists in attaching line to a fish hook or small component faster than prior methods and produces a knot that is stronger because the line is attached with two wraps of line through the eye of a fish hook.