Jig hooks and jig heads: Swing ball heads

A round head hinged to the hook: the bait swings free on the retrieve and the fish cannot lever the head against the hook. A ball-head build of the swing head.

ItemDetail
ModelsKalin's Pendu Jig, VMC Swingin' round heads
Weight1/8–1/2 oz (3.5–14 g)
BaitsGrubs, craws, small creatures
TechniquesDrag and slow swim; a reel-it bait, the joint eats rod shakes
WhereRock, gravel, shell; wind and current

Every swing head, whatever its head shape, is on the swing-head page too.

Top 10 in four markets

United States

  1. Eagle Claw Lazer Sharp Swing Head 4pk — $3.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #5; 5.0/5 avg rating. Round ball weight hinged by a wire loop to a free-swinging EWG hook (maker text says football, the photo is a ball); no eyes; no keeper, bait Texas-rigged Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  2. Trokar Swing Head Jig 4pk — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #12. Round ball hinged to a free-swinging Trokar EWG hook; no eyes; no keeper, bait Texas-rigged Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  3. Arkie U-Bolt Finesse Jighead 3pk — $2.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #15; 4.0/5 avg rating. Small round ball loosely attached to a light-wire hook by a U-bolt wire loop; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  4. Queen Tackle Tungsten Swingheads 1pk — $5.99 - $7.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #27. Compact tungsten head hinged to a free-swinging Mustad hook; maker calls it football but the product photo shows a round ball; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  5. Santone Lures Wobble Hog Jig Head 2pk — $6.29. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #32. Ball weight with a hook hanger on its back for a free-swinging Gamakatsu hook (maker says football; photo is round); no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  6. Gambler Wrecking Ball — $7.59. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #35. Round ball with a clevis instead of a moulded-in hook so the Mustad hook swings free; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  7. Motion Fishing Wobble Head 2pk — $6.99. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #37. Small rounded head with recessed tie hinged to an extra-wide-gap hook (maker says football; photo reads as a ball); no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  8. Bass Patrol Deflection Jig 2pk — $5.59 - $6.79. Tackle Warehouse 'Swinging Jigheads' (63 items) sorted by Popularity: #46. Round ball with a recessed tie and a pivoting, swivelling 4/0 VMC hook; no eyes; no keeper Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.

Canada

  1. Kalin's Pendu Jig — C$8.99. fishingworld.ca 'all-jigs' collection, best-selling sort #5 (not listed in bass-jigs; anglingsports.ca does not carry it); painted round ball head with 3D eye hinged to a free-swinging hook that acts like a pendulum, wire bait keeper on the hook shank; 2 per pack Eyes: yes; keeper: wire keeper.

Japan

  1. Zappu バウヘッド — ¥770 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed (jig-head genre) sorted by best-selling order: #5 (first ball-shaped joint head; #1 DS-13 is a delta head). Ball weight split-ring-jointed to a Cultiva Skinny Rip 3/0; Kenta Onishi design; amazon.co.jp popularity #21 for the weed-guarded round query. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  2. Jackall カットボールサイス — ¥660 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #6. Cup-cut ball weight jointed to a Scythe hook; the eye sits above centre so the head pendulums. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.
  3. Hayabusa (FINA) JOINTED SHOOTING BALL HEAD FF404 — ¥507 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #22. Ball weight with a screw-type attachment so the hook can be changed. Eyes: no; keeper: spring / screw.
  4. Zappu バンパーヘッド — ¥430 (naturum list price per pack). naturum keyword jointed sorted by best-selling order: #25. Satoshi Okumura's round head whose line eye carries a 'bumper ring' joint so the line angle swings freely; double wire keeper. Eyes: no; keeper: wire keeper.
  5. Zappu バウヘッドTG — ¥1386 (naturum list price per pack). naturum jig-head genre filtered to ZAPPU, sorted by best-selling order: #6. Tungsten version of the Bow Head ball joint. Eyes: no; keeper: no keeper.

China

  1. 玄鸿户外 越障防挂 圆球摇摆铅头钩 (曲柄钩自由链接) — ¥11 / item（pack count varies by option，not specified in listing）. Taobao list page 'weedless jighead' sorted by sales (fetched 2026-09-27): position 14; shop 玄鸿户外旗舰店; ball weight joined to a free-swinging offset hook by a ring; the only round swing head found on the swing (swing) keyword pages, all others are teardrop / fish-eye heads 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