Abstract: The snell holder has a foundation structure on which a snell-receiving body is mounted. The foundation structure has a support shaft and an anchor solely at one end for mounting it to another object. The snell-receiving body is elongated and compressible and puncturable and at least modestly resilient. It has a central axis about which it is rotatable. The support shaft projects into one end of the snell-receiving body at the axis of the body. The opposite end of the body has an eccentric handle. Spaced catches on the body allow attachment of the non-hook end of a snell to the body so that, upon rotation of the body by the eccentric handle, the snell can be wound around the body and the hook then pressed into the body.