Jig hooks and jig heads: Hover heads

Heads and hooks that hold a small minnow suspended, level and nearly still in mid-water: for pressured or cold fish, and for forward-facing sonar. Three forms, two of which are jig heads.

FormWhat it isModelsSizes
Hover rig head (US)Lead poured along the shank ahead of the tie; horizontal glide and spiral fallCore Tackle Hover Rig, Weedless Hover Rig (wire guard)1/32–1/8 oz (0.9–3.5 g); #4–5/0
Damiki / vertical headCentre-weighted head with a 90° line tie on top and a flat chin; the minnow hangs level for vertical dead-stickingDamiki Rig Jig Head and clones1/8–1/2 oz (3.5–14 g); 1/0–3/0
Hover shot (Japan, ホバスト)Not a jig head: an unweighted 90°-eye hook with a nail sinker pushed into the wormRyugi Hover Shot, Hover Shot FG#6–#1; nail 0.3–0.9 g
ItemDetail
Baits3–4" (7.5–10 cm) minnows (Armor Shad, hover minnows)
TechniqueHover rig: tiny shakes and long pauses, the bait glides level. Damiki: drop to the fish on sonar and hold still, shaking only the rod tip
Line / rodFC 4–8 lb or PE 0.4–0.6 with a leader; ML–M spinning
WhereSuspended winter bass, clear reservoirs, bait schools; pressured fish that follow a mid-strolled bait but will not eat it

A hover head is a shank-weighted strolling head built to hold still rather than roll: raised-CoG heads roll the bait, shank-weighted heads glide it, hover heads park it. Pick by how much movement the fish want that day.

Top 10 in four markets

United States

  1. Core Tackle Hover Rig 3pk — $6.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #2; 4.5/5 avg rating. Hover-strolling rig: lead poured along the shank and ahead of a 90-degree top line tie so the minnow hangs horizontal
  2. Core Tackle Weedless Hover Rig 3pk — $3.00 - $7.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #4; 5.0/5 avg rating. Same hover rig weighting with a single wire weedguard for cover
  3. Missile Baits Hover Jig Head. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #5; 1.0/5 avg rating. Torpedo-shaped on-shank weight with a top line tie for hover / mid-strolling a Spunk Shad
  4. 3 Brothers Baits Dice Rig Hover Head 4pk — $7.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #6. Ribbed on-shank weight with a 90-degree eye on a 4/0 Mustad short-shank hook for minnows and dice baits
  5. Primal Tackle Hover Head 3pk. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #7. Ribbed shank weight fully concealed inside the minnow with a vertical line tie for a horizontal hover
  6. Gambler Hover Hook — $2.98 - $4.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #8. Weighted 90-degree hook that suspends soft jerkbaits horizontally without nail weights
  7. Hag's Depth Charge Tungsten Jig Heads 5pk — $7.99 - $9.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #9. 97% tungsten pointed head with top line tie and double wire keepers for mid and hover strolling
  8. Core Tackle Weedless The Heavy Duty Hover Rig 3pk — $7.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #10. Power version of the hover rig: 90-degree line tie, heavy hook and single-cable weedguard
  9. Poor Boy's Baits The Stalker Jig 4pk — $3.00 - $4.19. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #11; 5.0/5 avg rating. Ribbed on-shank weight with a top line tie for a horizontal hovering minnow
  10. Lure Parts Online Bass Academy HD Hover Jig 5pk — $6.49. Tackle Warehouse 'Weighted Hover Hooks' (16 items) sorted by Popularity: #14. Heavy-duty hover jig with Gamakatsu X-Strong 604 hook and top line tie for larger-profile plastics

Canada

  1. Core Tackle Hover Rig Weedless — C$10.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #6; kept only jighead-hover heads from that list; the original hover rig: 90-degree jig hook inserted behind the worm head with a nail weight in the nose so the bait glides horizontally; weedless version; store photo shows it rigged in a worm so no image
  2. Core Tackle Hover Jig — C$9.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #13; kept only jighead-hover heads from that list; internally weighted 90-degree hover head that suspends the minnow horizontally with a gliding fall
  3. Core Tackle Heavy Duty Hover Rig — C$12.99. fishingworld.ca 'bass-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #44; kept only jighead-hover heads from that list; stout 90-degree flipping-hook hover rig with a beefed-up weedguard for cover
  4. Hag's Tungsten Depth Charge — C$12.99-14.99. anglingsports.ca 'jig-head' collection, best-selling sort #111; kept only jighead-hover heads from that list; tungsten hovering-rig head on a BKK hook, sold as a hover rig

Japan

  1. Ryugi ホバーショット — ¥504 (naturum list price per pack). naturum 'Worm hooks (offset)' category (genre3code=10, 199 items), sorted by best-selling order (best-selling): #34. Hover-strolling hook built on the Vespa jig-head hook with a fixed wire worm keeper behind the eye (pin pressed into the bait head, not a spring); narrow gap, fine wire, unweighted. Gap: narrow gap; wire: fine; weighted: no; keeper: Permalock pin. Gap: narrow; keeper: TwistLock-type. Re-filed by the owner: a hook made for the hover-strolling rig; listed with the hover heads.

China

  1. 三只鸬鹚 9879-NP/T 火巴斯托钩 特氟龙顺滑 — ¥7.8 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 1 of 20; shop 三只鸬鹚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  2. aigema 爱格玛 微铅火巴斯托钩 隐形插铅 — ¥14.9 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 3 of 20; shop aigema旗舰店. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  3. 钱塘路亚 火巴斯托钩 隐藏铅头 强化版 — ¥9.9 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 6 of 20; shop 钱塘路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  4. 钓之猪 火巴斯托钩 隐形小铅头 — ¥5.98 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 7 of 20; shop 钓之猪路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  5. 国王路亚 KINGDOM 火巴斯托/米多斯托 微铅铅头钩 — ¥15 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 9 of 20; shop 千岛路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  6. 国王路亚 KINGDOM 火巴斯托直角钩 — ¥15 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 10 of 20; shop 千岛路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  7. 破川 隐锋钨钢火巴斯托钩 直角钝角宽钩门 — ¥27.8 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 11 of 20; shop 破川旗舰店. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  8. 青威路亚 (Mr JiggingG) 火巴斯托钩 4X加强血槽钩尖 — ¥9.9 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 12 of 20; shop 青威路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  9. ESSE 火巴托钩 悬停摇摆铅头钩 — ¥25.5 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'hover-strolling hook' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): original position 16 of 20; shop 波波路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless.
  10. INSHERING 影小渔 米多斯托专用钩 微铅宽腹直柄钩 — ¥19.5 / 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 19 of 20; shop 三水路亚. Sub-type: hover-strolling (hover-strolling) hook: insert/sleeve weight on the shank, no moulded head, so the bait hovers almost weightless. Listed under the strolling keyword but the picture shows a shank-weighted hover hook.

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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