Jig hooks and jig heads: Swing ball heads

A round head hinged to the hook: the bait swings free on the retrieve and the fish cannot lever the head against the hook. A ball-head build of the swing head.

Item	Detail
Models	Kalin's Pendu Jig, VMC Swingin' round heads
Weight	1/8–1/2 oz (3.5–14 g)
Baits	Grubs, craws, small creatures
Techniques	Drag and slow swim; a reel-it bait, the joint eats rod shakes
Where	Rock, gravel, shell; wind and current

Every swing head, whatever its head shape, is on the swing-head page too.

Top 10 en cuatro mercados

Estados Unidos

Eagle Claw Lazer Sharp Swing Head 4pk — $3.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #5; 5.0/5 avg rating. Round ball weight hinged by a wire loop to a free-swinging EWG hook (maker text says football, the photo is a ball); no eyes; no keeper, bait Texas-rigged Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Trokar Swing Head Jig 4pk — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #12. Round ball hinged to a free-swinging Trokar EWG hook; no eyes; no keeper, bait Texas-rigged Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Arkie U-Bolt Finesse Jighead 3pk — $2.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #15; 4.0/5 avg rating. Small round ball loosely attached to a light-wire hook by a U-bolt wire loop; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Queen Tackle Tungsten Swingheads 1pk — $5.99 - $7.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #27. Compact tungsten head hinged to a free-swinging Mustad hook; maker calls it football but the product photo shows a round ball; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Santone Lures Wobble Hog Jig Head 2pk — $6.29. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #32. Ball weight with a hook hanger on its back for a free-swinging Gamakatsu hook (maker says football; photo is round); no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Gambler Wrecking Ball — $7.59. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #35. Round ball with a clevis instead of a moulded-in hook so the Mustad hook swings free; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Motion Fishing Wobble Head 2pk — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #37. Small rounded head with recessed tie hinged to an extra-wide-gap hook (maker says football; photo reads as a ball); no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Bass Patrol Deflection Jig 2pk — $5.59 - $6.79. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #46. Round ball with a recessed tie and a pivoting, swivelling 4/0 VMC hook; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.

Canadá

Kalin's Pendu Jig — C$8.99. fishingworld.ca 'all-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #5 (not listed in bass-jigs; anglingsports.ca does not carry it); painted round ball head with 3D eye hinged to a free-swinging hook that acts like a pendulum, wire bait keeper on the hook shank; 2 per pack Eyes: yes; keeper: wire keeper.

Japón

Zappu バウヘッド — ¥770 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed (jig-head genre) sorted by best-selling order: #5 (first ball-shaped joint head; #1 DS-13 is a delta head). Ball weight split-ring-jointed to a Cultiva Skinny Rip 3/0; Kenta Onishi design; amazon.co.jp popularity #21 for the weed-guarded round query. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Jackall カットボールサイス — ¥660 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #6. Cup-cut ball weight jointed to a Scythe hook; the eye sits above centre so the head pendulums. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
Hayabusa (FINA) JOINTED SHOOTING BALL HEAD FF404 — ¥507 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #22. Ball weight with a screw-type attachment so the hook can be changed. Eyes: no; keeper: spring / screw.
Zappu バンパーヘッド — ¥430 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #25. Satoshi Okumura's round head whose line eye carries a 'bumper ring' joint so the line angle swings freely; double wire keeper. Eyes: no; keeper: wire keeper.
Zappu バウヘッドTG — ¥1386 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre filtered to ZAPPU, sorted by best-selling order: #6. Tungsten version of the Bow Head ball joint. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.

China

玄鸿户外越障防挂圆球摇摆铅头钩 (曲柄钩自由链接) — ¥11 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weedless jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 14; shop 玄鸿户外旗舰店; ball weight joined to a free-swinging offset hook by a ring; the only round swing head found on the swing (swing) keyword pages, all others are teardrop / fish-eye heads Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.

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Jig hooks and jig heads

Hooks whose shank bends at the eye so a head can be poured on: the bare jig hook, and weighted jig heads for soft plastics classified by head shape and build (ball in four builds, strolling jigs by mechanism, football, swing, stand-up, Ned in four builds, shaky, darter, swimbait, underspin, tube, weedless, grass), because each fishes differently; and the skirted jig itself, by head shape (casting, flipping, football, swim, finesse, punch).

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