What’s your go too bait,hook, jig head set up for a shaky head in 8’ or less of water?
What’s your go too bait,hook, jig head set up for a shaky head in 8’ or less of water?
Frenzy Nail Head with a floating worm so it stands up.
3/16 oz Canterbury shaky jig, Airtail Wiggler worm...
Roboworm Fat(4.5 or 6)/Perfect Plastics baby Fat Finesse Worm with a Megastrike Shake2 Jig head 1/8 or 3/16
Anything Spotsticker. I use finesse worms, trick worms, baby brush hogs, craws, Roboworms and even a tube.
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2020 Basscat Caracal
2020 Mercury 225 ProXS 4s
#1, I've always used a baitcaster with 10 or 12 lb test line. Rod is a 7'MH Denali Attax, reel a Chronarch. Started with FC and went to copolymer. I like the Owner shakyheads best, but be aware that they have a modified round head, a football head, and a "Bullet head" and all are referred to as "Shakyheads". The Dirty Jigs Canterbury shakyhead is on my rod at this moment. It seems to work pretty well in either weedy or rocky lakes. Drag it on the bottom, and when it stops, hop it free just like a T-rig. I always hold the line ahead of the reel to increase my strike detecting ability. Try it and you'll see!
I'm a fan of the Zoom 5" lizard because we fish for smallmouth mostly, tho I have caught some SM on the 6" Zoom lizards...the bigger bait seems to reduce the numbers. Biggest fish so far was a common Carp of about 15 lbs that I managed to snag in the hindquarters. That was a battle. It's difficult to find a shakyhead with a hook smaller than 4/0, and I am not convinced that it'd be possible to reliably set that 4/0 hook with 6 lb test like the pro's claim. Line size and hook size gotta be paired correctly.
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I use a custom 7'ML Phenix UMBX with a Curado 71XG spooled up with 10lb fluoro. I use the C to C Closer jighead in 1/8 or 3/16 and usually have a Zoom Trick worm on it.
Dobyns 742 Extreme, Daiwa Alphas sv tw, 1/8 oz. buckeye spot remover
853 NRX, 14# sniper, Lews hyper mag 8.3:1, megastrike shake2 3/16. Most of the time my go to would be some sort of trick/finesse worm. Sk of zoom
Had best results with spot sticker and air tail worms.
2016 Phoenix 819 Mercury 200 Pro XS
Kenny
I like the Davis Baits Shakey Head. It's pretty inexpensive and has a Gammy O'Shaughnessy hook. My go to worm is the Netbait T-Mack or Reins Swamp Mover.
I mostly favor a Neko Rig over Shakey heads, much more versatile.
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Yum Pumpkin Head