Jig hooks and jig heads: Shank-weighted heads

The lead is poured down the hook shank (or a sleeve / insert weight sits on it) instead of in a head: the bait hangs level, glides on the pause and rolls less. The Japanese hover shot is the hook-only form: an unweighted 90°-eye hook with a nail sinker in the worm.

ItemDetail
ModelsGamakatsu Horizon Head / LG / Sn, VMC Minnow Shaker, Buckeye Scope Head, Beast Coast Scoper's Delight; Japan: Ryugi Hover Shot + nail; China: shank-slot hover hooks (shank sleeve / insert weight)
Weight3/64–3/8 oz (1.3–10.6 g); hover shot nails 0.3–0.9 g
EyeIn-line, often 45°–90° up for a level posture
Baits3–4" (7.5–10 cm) minnows; on forward-facing sonar
TechniqueSlow shake and glide; count down to the fish

Top 10 dans quatre marchés

États-Unis

  1. VMC Minnow Shaker Ball Jig Head — $7.99 - $8.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #2; 4.0/5 avg rating. Mid-strolling minnow head with the weight above the shank for a rocking, high-centre-of-gravity action Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  2. Gamakatsu Nano Alpha Horizon Head LG Ball Jig Heads 4pk — $3.00 - $7.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #4; 4.0/5 avg rating. Maker: smallest possible head with extra weight on the shank for horizontal balance with bulky hover-strolling plastics; 90-degree hook Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  3. Gamakatsu Nano Alpha Horizon Head Ball Jig Head 4pk — $3.00 - $7.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #10; 5.0/5 avg rating. Maker: horizontal presentation head for hover strolling and live sonar; 90-degree hook with double-barb keeper Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  4. Primal Tackle Hi Roller Head 3pk — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #14; 5.0/5 avg rating. Maker: round head with a high centre of gravity and semi-recessed line tie for hover and mid-strolling Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  5. Buckeye Lures G-Stroll Ball Jig Head — $5.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #17; 3.0/5 avg rating. Named and sold as a strolling head (G-Stroll) with a top-mounted eye; TW shows no maker text, so placed here on the product name alone Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  6. Treeshaker Austin Felix's Dream Stroller Ball Head 3pk — $8.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #21; 4.0/5 avg rating. Maker: 90% of the weight above the hook shank plus a welded ring that rocks up to 180 degrees for a rolling swimbait action Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).

Canada

  1. Gamakatsu Horizon Head LG — C$9.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #16; kept only jighead-strolling heads from that list; Japanese mid-strolling head: weight sits high on the shank so the minnow holds a horizontal posture under forward-facing sonar; LG = larger hook Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  2. VMC Minnow Shaker Jig — C$9.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #45; kept only jighead-strolling heads from that list; high-centre-of-gravity minnow head with a 45-degree line tie that rocks and shakes the bait on a slow strolling retrieve Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  3. Gamakatsu Horizon Head — C$9.99. anglingsports.ca 'jig-head' collection, best-selling sort #77; kept only jighead-strolling heads from that list; the original mid-strolling head developed in Japan for forward-facing sonar; keeps the minnow horizontal (fishingworld.ca stocks it too) Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  4. Beast Coast Scoper's Delight Jig Head — C$10.99. fishingworld.ca search "scope head", best-selling sort #1; kept only jighead-strolling heads from that list; live-sonar minnow head with most of the weight positioned above the hook shank (high centre of gravity); not in the bass-jigs collection Mechanism: weight moved onto the shank (owner).
  5. Buckeye Lures Scope Head — C$8.99. anglingsports.ca 'jig-head' collection, best-selling sort #89; kept only jighead-strolling heads from that list; Jacob Powroznik forward-facing-sonar minnow head with a keeled, high-riding weight for horizontal strolling

Japon

  1. Gamakatsu ホリゾンヘッド — ¥440 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre (265 items) sorted by best-selling order: #29, the best-selling bass mid-strolling head on the site; #1 in the Horizon Head search. Weight pushed back into the keeper so the rig swims and falls level (horizontal posture) — the original mid-strolling head. Mechanism: weight on the shank.
  2. Gamakatsu ホリゾンヘッド Sn — ¥352 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jighead bass search sorted by best-selling order: #12; #2 in the Horizon Head search. Tin (Sn) head down to 0.35 g for surface-slow strolling with the same level-swim keeper. Mechanism: weight on the shank.
  3. Deps ミドストジグヘッド — ¥715 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword mid-strolling sorted by best-selling order: #5. Round head with the eye rising straight up and set sideways so the knot cannot slip — a 'rolling-action generator' for 5-6 in bulky worms; 0.35 mm spring-wire guard for deep structure. Mechanism: weight on the shank.
  4. Gamakatsu ホリゾンヘッド LGライト+G — ¥660 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword mid-strolling sorted by best-selling order: #7. Light-weight version of the LG midst head (flat-top keeper for shallow rigging) with a guard for weed and structure. Mechanism: weight on the shank.
  5. Gamakatsu ホリゾンヘッド LG — ¥550 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword mid-strolling sorted by best-selling order: #8. 'Midst-only head for big bass': compact head with a long low-centre keeper that levels bulky shad worms and adds roll. Mechanism: weight on the shank.

Chine

  1. ICHIKAWA 市川 专攻中层 米多斯托钩 (日本制) — ¥28 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'mid-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 20 of 20; shop 千岛路亚. Sub-type: mid-strolling (mid-strolling) head: small high-centre-of-gravity head on a fine-wire hook, rolls the bait while shaking in mid-water. Mechanism: raised centre of gravity and weight on the shank (both).

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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).

  1. Bare jig hooks
  2. Skirted jigs
  3. Casting jigs
  4. Flipping jigs
  5. Football jigs
  6. Swim jigs
  7. Finesse jigs
  8. Punch and grass jigs
  9. Tuning a jig
  10. Weedguard length and trimming
  11. Modifying the weedguard
  12. Trimming the skirt
  13. Trailer and colour
  14. Fishing a jig
  15. Jig presentations
  16. Reading the bite
  17. Hook set and fish control in cover
  18. Swimbait heads
  19. Original swimbait heads
  20. Underspin heads
  21. Texas-rigged swimbait heads
  22. Weedless swimbait heads
  23. Swing swimbait heads
  24. Darter heads
  25. Damiki rig heads
  26. Ball jig heads
  27. Original ball heads
  28. Texas-rigged ball heads
  29. Weedless ball heads
  30. Swing ball heads
  31. Strolling jigs
  32. Shank-weighted heads
  33. Hover heads
  34. Raised-CoG heads
  35. Ned heads
  36. Original Ned heads
  37. Texas-rigged Ned heads
  38. Weedless Ned heads
  39. Swing Ned heads
  40. Football jig heads
  41. Original football heads
  42. Texas-rigged football heads
  43. Weedless football heads
  44. Swing football heads
  45. Shaky heads
  46. Original shaky heads
  47. Texas-rigged shaky heads
  48. Weedless shaky heads
  49. Swing shaky heads
  50. Stand-up jig heads
  51. Tube heads
  52. Swing heads

Jig hooks and jig heads