Jig hooks and jig heads: Football jigs

A wide head shaped like a football. On rock it rolls over rather than wedging in cracks, and rocks side to side as it is dragged, like a crawfish.

ItemDetail
HeadWide football (pigskin), 90° line tie
Hook4/0–5/0, light weedguard
Weight3/8–1 oz (10.6–28 g)
TrailerDouble-tail grub, craw
WhereRock, gravel, offshore ledges, points; summer to winter
HowDrag slowly along the bottom so it wobbles; bump it over rocks
Rod / line7'2"–7'4" (2.18–2.24 m) MH–H, 12–17 lb FC
SpeciesLargemouth and smallmouth bass offshore

Feel for the change from gravel to rock: that change is usually where the fish are.

Top 10 in four markets

United States

  1. Keitech Tungsten Football Jig Model 2 Version 2 — $7.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #1. Raw unpainted tungsten-compound football head, 100-strand hand-tied SR-40 skirt, 10-strand hand-glued fiber weedguard, Gamakatsu 2/0 hook, double-barb keeper, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  2. Dirty Jigs Tour Level Finesse Football Jig — $5.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #2. Compact football head, Gamakatsu 4/0 60-degree flat-eye hook, full-length skirt you can trim to a spider cut, fiber weedguard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  3. Beast Coast Hand-Tied Tungsten Compound OW Sniper Jig — $5.99 - $11.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #3. Compact tungsten-compound football head with NO weedguard (open-water design), 2/0 BKK 90-degree hook, short-cut hand-tied skirt, double-barb keeper, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  4. Bass Patrol Round Rubber Football Jigs — $2.79 - $3.29. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #4. Traditional football head, recessed line tie, hand-tied round-rubber skirt, Mustad 2X Ultra Point hook, fiber weedguard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  5. Dirty Jigs Tour Level Skirted Football Jig — $5.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #5. Football head, Gamakatsu 3X-strong jig hook, large lead-barb keeper, skirt collar takes a rattle, fiber weedguard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  6. Strike King Bitsy Football Jig — $4.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #6. Compact football head, black-nickel Mustad hook, fiber weedguard, banded silicone skirt, barbed keeper, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  7. Bass Patrol Silicone Football Jigs — $3.29 - $3.59. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #7. Traditional football head, recessed line tie, hand-tied silicone skirt, Mustad 2X Ultra Point hook, fiber weedguard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  8. Missile Jigs Ike's Micro Football Jig 2pk — $8.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #8. Ultra-compact football head, 90-degree line tie, 1/0 Gamakatsu hook, thinned frog-hair skirt, weedguard supplied unattached, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  9. Beast Coast Hand-Tied L-Metal OW Sniper Jig — $4.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #9. Lead football-style head with NO weedguard, 2/0 BKK 90-degree hook, short-cut hand-tied silicone skirt, matte finish, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  10. Beast Coast Tungsten Hand-Tied Compound Baby Dozer Jig — $7.99 - $11.99. Tackle Warehouse "Football Jigs" sorted by Popularity: #10. Compact tungsten-compound dragging (football) head with friction bumps underneath, short-eye 4/0 BKK hook set back in the head, moderate weedguard, short-cut skirt, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.

Canada

  1. Strike King Tour Grade Football Jig — C$5.99. anglingsports.ca 'jigs' collection best-selling #33 (highest-placed skirted football jig there) and its 'Finesse & Football Jigs' collection #4; wide football head that stands the trailer up on bottom, flat-eye line tie, Gamakatsu 60-degree round-bend hook, fiber weedguard, 1/2 oz; no eyes. Transparent PNG flattened onto white Head: football; eyes: no.
  2. Beast Coast Open Water Sniper Football Jig — C$9.99. anglingsports.ca 'jigs' collection best-selling #36 and 'Finesse & Football Jigs' #5; fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' #60 (C$7.99 there; tungsten version #67); Ontario smallmouth football jig designed with Travis Manson (Smallmouth Crush): tungsten-compound football head, NO weedguard by design for open rock bottoms, 3/8 oz; no eyes. Photo from the fishingworld.ca listing (2048 px) Head: football; eyes: no.
  3. Nishine Lure Works Finesse Football Jig — C$7.49-9.49. anglingsports.ca 'Finesse & Football Jigs' collection best-selling #2; fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' #28 and 'all-jigs' #40; oblong 'footballesque' head that shimmies through rock crevices, 90-degree Owner jig hook, hand-tied skirt, fiber weedguard, 3/8-1/2 oz; no eyes. Photo (three jigs) from the maker's site nishinelureworks.com, cropped above its caption; the store photos carry colour-name captions over the skirt Head: football; eyes: no.
  4. Keitech Model II Tungsten Football Jig — C$11.99. anglingsports.ca 'Finesse & Football Jigs' collection best-selling #3; fishingworld.ca lists it in 'Swim Jigs' #9 (C$8.99 there); tungsten-compound football head for deep water, hand-tied 100-strand SR-40 silicone skirt, hand-glued 5-strand fiber weedguard, custom Gamakatsu 2/0 hook, 3/8-1/2 oz; no eyes Head: football; eyes: no.
  5. Berkley Football Jig — C$8.99. anglingsports.ca 'Finesse & Football Jigs' collection best-selling #6 (not stocked by fishingworld.ca); Gary Klein football jig: football head, Fusion19 hook, fiber weedguard, PowerBait-scented skirt, 1/4-3/8 oz; no eyes Head: football; eyes: no.
  6. War Eagle Pro Football Jig — C$8.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection best-selling #38 (not stocked by anglingsports.ca); keeled football head that crawls over deep structure without rolling, fiber weedguard, 3/4 oz listed; no eyes Head: football; eyes: no.
  7. Greenfish Tackle Crawball Football Jig — C$5.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection best-selling #43 and 'Flipping Jigs' #5 (not stocked by anglingsports.ca); scalloped football head, hand-tied fine living-rubber skirt accented with silicone, fiber weedguard, 1/2 oz; no eyes. Filed here by its name and head; the store also lists it among flipping jigs Head: football; eyes: no.
  8. Dirty Jigs Tour Level Football Jig — C$8.99. anglingsports.ca 'jigs' collection best-selling #61 and 'Finesse & Football Jigs' #9; football head with a large lead barb plastic keeper, Gamakatsu 5/0 hook, fiber weedguard, 1/2 oz; no eyes Head: football; eyes: no.
  9. The Perfect Jig Finesse Football Jig — C$12.99. anglingsports.ca 'Finesse & Football Jigs' collection best-selling #12 (Ontario maker; fishingworld.ca carries the sibling Football Jig at #92 and Tungsten Alive Football Jig at #66); compact finesse football head, fiber weedguard, hand-tied skirt, 3/8 oz; no eyes Head: football; eyes: no.

Japan

  1. Nories ガンターオーバル BT — ¥430 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 3/8 oz #3.5/0). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #9 and #1 for the keyword フットボール. Rear-weighted football head for a fast fall and 'hover' fall, narrow-gap long-shank hook, laid-back brush guard; no eyes; BT = bulky-trailer version. Head: football; eyes: no.
  2. Jackall ナカタジグ — ¥866 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 3/8 oz). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #10. Nojiri-lake deep jig by guide Hiroki Nakata: flattened oval stand-up head that lifts the trailer on every shake, brush guard, no eyes. Not a classic football but the store has no head-shape sub-categories; filed here as a deep bottom stand-up jig. Head: ball; eyes: no.
  3. Daiwa STEEZ フレックスフットボール — ¥829 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 14 g shown, 5–14 g). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #12 and #2 for the keyword フットボール. Football version of the jointed C.J.S. jig: resin-tungsten football head, 90° line eye for short-hop moves, tool-free swap of the WOS #2/0 offset hook; no brush guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  4. Nories ガンターオーバル — ¥527 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 5/8 oz). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #15 and #3 for the keyword フットボール. Standard-trailer version of the Gunter Oval: rear-weighted football head, narrow-gap long-shank hook, laid-back brush guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  5. Daiwa BHマルチジグ — ¥410 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 10 g). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #17 and #4 for the keyword フットボール. 'Multi' football jig for both dragging and mid-water swimming: low-slung rice-ball (onigiri) football head, 45° line eye, brush guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  6. Deps クリングヘッドジグ — ¥770 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 5/8 oz). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #20 and #8 for the keyword フットボール. Football-type head with a side line eye designed to deliberately 'cling' to structure and then come free, brush guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  7. Deps スーパーヘッドロックジグ — ¥560 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 3/8 oz). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #22 and #10 for the keyword フットボール. Big-bass reaction football: wide football head with the line eye set far back for a stand-up, low-trajectory bottom bump, up-sized nemuri-point hook, brush guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  8. Evergreen リアクションフットボール — ¥876 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 1 oz shown). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #30 and #7 for the keyword フットボール. Morizo Shimizu's deep football for big bass: football head, long-shank hook he bent himself, tuned guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  9. Evergreen TGブロー — ¥1,069 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 14 g). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #34 and #9 for the keyword フットボール. Sintered high-density tungsten football (SG ≈ 18) for the fastest reaction fall, wire keeper, six-strand guard, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  10. Deps ハイパーフットボールジグ — ¥696 (naturum list price, 1 jig; 1/4 oz shown). naturum ラバージグ genre sorted by sales #36 and #5 for the keyword フットボール. Football jig built for 'straight swimming' (slow-rolled like a spinnerbait) for suspended big bass: football head, brush guard, silicone skirt, no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.

China

  1. 水上狙击 WATER SNIPER JIG 橄榄头胡须佬 3.5g/5g/7g/10g — ¥10.47 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weed-guarded skirted jig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 7 of 20; shop 白沙洲路亚基地. Highest-placed football head in the lists (weed-guarded skirted jig #7, football headjig #2). Football head, fibre weedguard, silicone skirt; no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  2. KEITECH Rubber Jig Model II ver.2.0 (Tungsten Football) — ¥45 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'football headjig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 3 of 20; shop 一尾路亚. High-density tungsten-resin football head, fibre weedguard, Keitech skirt; no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  3. O.S.P Hunts 半橄榄头JIG — ¥43.5 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'football headjig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 8 of 20; shop 林城路亚. Half-football (rounded football) head, fibre weedguard, rubber skirt; no eyes. Sold as a structure/bottom jig under the football head keyword. Photo cropped from the 岚溪钓具 listing of the same jig. Head: football; eyes: no.
  4. KEITECH Crankin' Football 橄榄头JIG 3/8-1oz — ¥45.5 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'football headjig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 9 of 20; shop 乐筏路亚. Football head made for dragging and cranking bottom, fibre weedguard; no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.
  5. Daiwa 达亿瓦 Football Jig 树脂钨钢橄榄头 — ¥30 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'football headjig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 10 of 20; shop 姥姥家鲈钓社. Tungsten-resin football head with fibre weedguard and rubber skirt; no eyes. Photo is a top-down shot on a dark plain background. Head: football; eyes: no.
  6. RAID Japan Foot Master 钨钢橄榄头JIG — ¥49 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'football headjig' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 12 of 20; shop 精品路亚. High-density tungsten football head, fibre weedguard, silicone skirt; no eyes. Head: football; eyes: no.

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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