Hameçons
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).
- Bare jig hooks
- Skirted jigs
- Casting jigs
- Flipping jigs
- Football jigs
- Swim jigs
- Finesse jigs
- Punch and grass jigs
- Tuning a jig
- Weedguard length and trimming
- Modifying the weedguard
- Trimming the skirt
- Trailer and colour
- Fishing a jig
- Jig presentations
- Reading the bite
- Hook set and fish control in cover
- Swimbait heads
- Original swimbait heads
- Underspin heads
- Texas-rigged swimbait heads
- Weedless swimbait heads
- Swing swimbait heads
- Darter heads
- Damiki rig heads
- Ball jig heads
- Original ball heads
- Texas-rigged ball heads
- Weedless ball heads
- Swing ball heads
- Strolling jigs
- Shank-weighted heads
- Hover heads
- Raised-CoG heads
- Ned heads
- Original Ned heads
- Texas-rigged Ned heads
- Weedless Ned heads
- Swing Ned heads
- Football jig heads
- Original football heads
- Texas-rigged football heads
- Weedless football heads
- Swing football heads
- Shaky heads
- Original shaky heads
- Texas-rigged shaky heads
- Weedless shaky heads
- Swing shaky heads
- Stand-up jig heads
- Tube heads
- Swing heads
Choosing hooks
Straight or offset, fine or heavy wire (with a formula), the wire for your line and rod, hook size for each soft bait, every way to hook a drop shot, and hook eyes: which way they face and at what angle.
Offset hooks
Offset-shank hooks, round-bend and Z-bend alike, read by GAP first (narrow, wide, extra-wide EWG), then unweighted or weighted, then fine or heavy-duty wire; bladed hooks for search baits; TwistLock and Permalock keepers.
- Narrow-gap offset hooks
- Narrow gap, finesse
- Narrow gap, heavy duty
- Weighted narrow-gap hooks
- Wide-gap offset hooks
- Wide gap, finesse
- Wide gap, heavy duty
- Weighted wide-gap hooks
- Extra Wide Gap (EWG) hooks
- EWG, finesse
- EWG, heavy duty
- Weighted EWG, finesse
- Weighted EWG, heavy duty
- Weighted swimbait hooks
- Weighted hooks with a blade
- Bladed swimbait hooks
- Bladed Texas hooks
- Texas hooks (Texas-style lock)
- Weighted offset hooks
- Shank-weighted hooks
- Head-weighted hooks
- TwistLock hooks
- Narrow-gap TwistLock hooks
- Wide-gap TwistLock hooks
- Swivel fluke / worm hooks
Straight-shank hooks
The shank runs straight from the eye to the bend. One of the two big hook families: Aberdeen, straight worm, flipping and punching, drop-shot, octopus, circle, wacky and Neko hooks.
Trebles, doubles and special hooks
Hooks outside the two soft-bait families: trebles on hard baits, doubles on metal vibes and frogs, hooks with a swivel (and the ways it is attached), and floating hooks.