Jig hooks and jig heads: Weedless ball heads

A round head with a fibre or wire guard over the point: the same fall and swim, but it comes through brush, dock posts and grass edges.

ItemDetail
GuardFibre brush (trimmable) or wire (bend to set)
Weight1/8–1/2 oz (3.5–14 g)
BaitsGrubs, worms, small swimbaits, craws
WhereBrush piles, docks, grass edges, riprap
Trade-offA guard costs a few hook-ups: trim it until it just covers the point

Top 10 dans quatre marchés

États-Unis

  1. BOSS Mini Ball Jig Head 4pk — $6.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #16; 4.5/5 avg rating. Perfectly round head with a stout fibre weedguard on a 2/0 Mustad Ultra Point; no eyes; moulded double-barb collar Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  2. Deps Midst Weedless Ball Jig Head 4pk — $8.75. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #23; 5.0/5 avg rating. Round head with a 90-degree tie and a single 0.35 mm stainless spring-wire guard; no eyes (weight embossed); moulded arrow-barb collar Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  3. BOSS Brent Ehrler Gamakatsu Ball Head Jig 3pk — $7.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #28; 4.5/5 avg rating. Round head, semi-recessed tie, medium fibre weedguard, 4/0 Gamakatsu; no eyes; moulded double-barb collar Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  4. Gamakatsu 26R Weedless Ball Jig Head 3pk — $9.49 - $10.89. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #36; 5.0/5 avg rating. Round head with twin titanium-wire weedguards; no eyes; dual offset rebarb wire keepers plus a lead collar Eyes: no; keeper: wire keeper.
  5. Eagle Claw Pro-V Weedless Ball Jig Head 5pk — $3.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #52. Ball head with a clear mono weedguard on a Pro-V bend hook; painted eyes; moulded collar with a barb pointing up toward the eye Eyes: yes; keeper: shank barb, pointing up.
  6. Santone Lures Texas Finesse Ball Jig Head 3pk — $5.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #61; 5.0/5 avg rating. Compact ball head with a fibre weedguard on a Gamakatsu hook; no eyes; moulded barbed collar (skirt collar) Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  7. Hayabusa Brush Easy Ball Jig Heads — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #63. Mud-black round head with twin double heavy-mono brush guard; no eyes; moulded keeper with the barb pointing down/away from the eye Eyes: no; keeper: shank barb, pointing down.
  8. Bite Me Tackle Hunter Weedless Ball Jig Head 3pk — $3.75. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #65. Ball head with a single wire/mono guard on a 60-degree 3/0 Gamakatsu flat-eye hook; no eyes; moulded double-barb collar Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  9. Decoy VJ-77 Plus Guard Ball Jig Head 4pk — $6.15. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #74. Compact ball head with a single mono guard on the VJ-44 hook; no eyes; rubber tube sleeve keeper (closest to a bump collar) Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  10. VMC Weedless Minnow Shaker Jig — $8.29. Tackle Warehouse 'Ball Jigheads' (98 items) sorted by Popularity: #93. Round head with a woven-wire weedguard and 45-degree tie on a long-shank hook; 3D eyes; dual monofilament keepers Eyes: yes; keeper: wire keeper.

Canada

  1. Eagle Claw Eagle Eye Jig Head Weedless — C$7.99-9.99. anglingsports.ca 'jig-head' collection, best-selling sort #71; the only round-ball head with a weedguard in either store's jig collections: lead 'aspirin-style' round head with 3D eyes, double barb keeper, stainless-steel wire weedguard covering the gap of the Lazer Sharp LV570 hook Eyes: yes; keeper: shank barb, pointing down.

Japon

  1. Engine スーペリオ タングステンシングルガードラウンドジグヘッド — ¥715 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #2 (#1 is the Ryugi Darting Vespa, a strolling head). Tsuguhiko Komori's tungsten round head with a single mono guard; also #1 in the round jighead search. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  2. Reins ウィードレスジグヘッド — ¥483 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #4. 'Standard round-head type' tungsten-resin head with a four-fibre guard. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  3. Decoy (Katsuichi) DECOY Plus Guard(プラスガード)-S VJ-77 — ¥352 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #5. Semi-round head with a clear mono guard and tube keeper; amazon.co.jp popularity #7 for the weed-guarded round query. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  4. Keitech モノガードラウンドジグヘッド — ¥656 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #8 (sizes fill #8-#14; best-placed shown). Tungsten-resin round head with one planted mono guard; amazon.co.jp popularity #13. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  5. Owner (Cultiva) JH-14 ブラシヘッド — ¥415 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #22. Mitsuo Suzuki's round head with a tuned brush guard for cover. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.
  6. Zappu こちょこちょヘッド アイガード — ¥680 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #25. Tungsten round 'kocho-kocho' head with a shape-memory wire eye guard and wire keeper. Eyes: no; keeper: wire keeper.
  7. Keitech ファインガードジグヘッド — ¥697 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre, keyword guard, sorted by best-selling order: #28. Ultra-compact round tungsten-resin head with a fibre brush guard for reeds, rock and floating debris. Eyes: no; keeper: moulded collar.

Chine

  1. 钓之猪 DIAOZZ 挡草版 Inch Wacky 微铅圆头钩 10枚 — ¥7.98 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 4; shop 钓之猪路亚; round micro ball head with a single wire weed guard; positions 1-3 of the list are non-round swim-jig / racing heads Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  2. Ryugi 流義 EGU WACKY 钨树脂挡草铅头钩 — ¥38 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 9; shop 乐筏路亚; tungsten-resin ball head with flexible double guard; photo from a Bing image result (bluewatergear.co.za product page) Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  3. ZAPPU 扎普 Inch Wacky i-Guard 挡草钨钢铅头钩 — ¥36 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 10; shop 鲈钓专家; tungsten ball head with the i-guard wire Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  4. ZAPPU 扎普 Inch Wacky 挡草钨钢铅头钩 — ¥36 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 11; shop 西子进出口有限公司; same ZAPPU head from a second shop; photo cropped from the 鲈钓专家 listing image of the same product Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  5. Ryugi 流義 EGU WACKY 带挡草树脂钨钢铅头钩 — ¥38 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 19; shop 岚溪钓具路亚店; second Ryugi EGU listing (岚溪钓具); photo from a Bing image result (kkjapanlure.com product page) Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  6. 钓之猪 DIAOZZ Inch Wacky 挡草版 特氟龙微铅圆头钩 — ¥3.98 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'wackyjighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 4; shop 钓之猪路亚; secondary keyword; teflon-coated ball head with a wire guard 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).

  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