After several failures, I tried Sirrom's approach. Works great. I used a heated bodkin to put a hole longways in the tentacle, then ran it onto the hook and put the hook in the vise. Then pulled the tentacle down around the hook curve and wrapped the hook shank with thread. A little CA glue on the thread where i wanted the tentacle to stop, move the tentacle up onto the thread and Voila! Permanently attached to the hook. Caughts bluegill and bass on it today.