I don't know how easy this picture is going to be to see, but does anyone have experience rigging these? I couldn't seem to rig the keeper properly, so as soon as I got hung on something the plastic bait was basically ruined. does anyone know how to properly rig this type of keeper?

 

Insert the wires into the nose of the bait and push the bait up. I love these heads they are the main ones I use because I do not like the screw on type

What Ninja said.  I use the swim bait model, works well for me.

Sounds like you are rigging it right, I use these too but yeah they will destroy your plastic fairly quickly with that wire insert.

I use various brands of shaky heads.  One thing that they all have in common is that they tear up plastics.

 

For a similar presentation that doesn't tear up plastic quite as much try nose hooking baits on an appropriate drop shot hook with a 2" or so drop line.  Start with a quarter ounce (figuring 8 or 10 lb fluorocarbon) and be ready to go heavier (5/16 or 3/8) if you don't want to mess around, get to the bottom asap.  This rig is slightly less weedless (let me emphasize slightly) than a shaky head, but it solves the problem of tearing up your plastics.  Pick your poison.

Never tried those but could see how the bait would slide off easily.

 

I use their u-bolt heads asnd really like them.

Never tried those but could see how the bait would slide off easily.

 

I use their u-bolt heads asnd really like them.

I second the ubolt heads. They are my go to when shakyhead fishing.

On the ones pictured above, it looks like the two barbs on the keeper wire are facing the same direction. I wonder if you can twist the back one 180*.

They do tear up baits a fair bit, but I've come to the conclusion: if I'm catching fish, I don't mind going through plastics. 

 

If it starts bothering me that I'm going through a lot of them, I'll use a hard body bait.