I use one of those rubber coated hooks you use to hang your bike up with (by the wheels, upside down).

It's about 7 inches long from tip of threads to curve.

The hook is about 3 inches wide from tip to shaft.

The curve of the hook is parallel to the top of the staff with the thread screwed into the staff at an angle.

Once the hook is screwed in as far as I want it, I bend it so that the shaft of the hook is flush against the staff (kinda looks like a shepherd's crook).

I've wrapped some cord around the staff at the hooks insertion site and shaft in a vain attempt to have something that looks like cocks-combing and to provide some stability (Not pretty but it works).

It hasn't gotten in the way at all in fact the "V" shape the hook's shaft and the staff make at the top are pretty handy for pushing branches/briars up over my head while I walk under them.

The hook at the top of the staff also acts like a lever to better steer the staff as I'm descending hills or rocks.

I've taken a picture of it and attempted to attach it to this post but I don't have a website to give it a URL address (am I saying this right?).

Like most men, I know how to download pictures (don't ask), but I'm not real savvy about how to upload them.

I guess I'm going to have to join the rest of the planet and put a "my space" site of my own (I feel so old).