Power Shaky Head? Anyone Else Had Luck With This?

[Amarley]

I was messing around with some different presentations over the weekend and had a lot of luck with taking a heavy action rod and pitching a 5/16 oz shaky head with a Paca Craw or Rage Craw into some heavy wooded cover. If they didn't hit it on the fall, I could almost count on a strike after letting it sit and shaking it a couple times in the wooded cover. Very few hang-ups and less bulky than a normal jig with a skirt.

 

Anyone else had luck with this presentation? The craw standing straight up drove them nuts! 

[whitwolf]

I do this quite a bit with a R.I. smallie beaver.

[Bluebasser86]

I like to do this with a baby brush hog or large straight tail worm or 10" worm. 

[smalljaw67]

I make a 3/8oz shaky head with a 5/0 hook for a friend and he uses it specifically for a 10" worm and he kills with it so now I do it and the results are great!! I also like to use a 3/16oz or a 1/4oz shaky head with a 5.5" Stanley Sidewinder and use that around weeds and dead falls, killer technique that works when the fish don't want a normal jig or texas rig.

[Fishes in trees]

I tend to fish a jig head/soft plastic combo more often than I do a traditional skirted jig/trailer.  Shakey head fishing isn't just for light line & spinning gear, at least that's the way I see it.

[BassAddict1911]

all the time ... pretty much my go-to summer rig. I caught that bass in my profile pic doing exactly what your talking about.

[Amarley]

Good deal. I'll have to try it with a big worm next time I go out. Definitely a summer pattern I'll keep in my mind going forward.

[Bobby Uhrig]

There was a big article written in BassMaster Magazine about that subject that they had interviewed me on. The power shaking technique I have been using ever since I have been making the Shak-E2 heads. It has virtually eliminated my jig and skirt  jig fishing. I use a 3/8 (at least ) on Megabugs and larger baits. I showed the 3/4 oz at the FLW championship this week with a 12 inch worm and people bought them as quickly as I showed them. The larger skakey heads are great for flipping into grass and heavy cover.

[Bobby Uhrig]

megabug

[.ghoti.]

I'm with Bobby U on this. I use a skirted jig a lot less since the Shake2 head came out. I have one rod that always has a 3/8oz Shake2 / Space Monkey tied on. It's been two years, maybe longer, since that rod/reel had a different bait tied on.

Another combo almost always has a 5/16oz Shake2 / swim senko tied on.

[Amarley]

Very cool! I'll order some of the Shak-E2 heads. I needed a heavier gauge hook than what I was experimenting with. This is perfect.

[Bobby Uhrig]

About time someone freakin agreed with me!!!!

[SPEEDBEAD.]

About time someone freakin agreed with me!!!!

 

Don't get too used to that Megawhite! 

[.ghoti.]

About time someone freakin agreed with me!!!!

UH-OH does this mean I'm in some kinda hot water? LOL

[.ghoti.]

Since i first tried the Shake2 head, I've transitioned to fishing plastics mostly with jigheads of some sort. I use skirted jigs and t-rigs a lot less.

Now have three 3600 boxes full of just jigheads. There are more Shake2 jigheads than any other, followed, in no particular order, by Fin-Tech Titleshots, Gammy Skipgaps, Bass Stalker, and Tru-Tungsten Iaconelli jigheads.

Bought a whole bunch of the TT jigheads when they stopped production and TW clearanced them out.

I started out this year by going through my boxes, seeing what was low stock, and ordering about three pounds of jigheads. I probably won't need to order too many next year.

As long as Shake2 jigheads are in production, I'll be buying them. Megastrike too.

[Bobby Uhrig]

Now that's what Im talkin about G-- Im telling you-I did the same thing-im using them more and more- I even use the 1/8 and 3/6 as a flick shake  head -it keeps the bait off the bottom and has a wild falling action and wilder when pulled when working a soft plastic stick bait.. Give that a shot.. It has replaced my texas rig 100%

[.ghoti.]

Didn't know you had 1/8oz. I'll be getting some of those asap.

[Raul]

Old fart here, been shakeyheading with a big bunch of different weights since the 70's......I think that makes shakey heading not THAT NEW doesn´t it ?

[Blues19]

Ive got a question for y'all using the Megastrike jig heads. I started using spot removers a while back and the gap on the hook was not nearly big enough for thick worms or plastics, like a brush hog.  They were fine for baby brush hogs and skinny worms, but the point of power shaky head is for bigger thicker baits, right? So, do those MegaStrike jig heads have enough gap, or do they offer EWG jigheads?  I found a local store in Kentucky when I go and I stock up on the wide gap jig heads so i can power shakey.  This place also has a little local guy who makes some floating baits in similar shapes like a Brush Hog and big 10" Ribbon tail worms. They are pretty sweet cause those jokers stand STRAIGHT up in the water. Thanks guys!

[Bobby Uhrig]

POWER SHAKING

 

[Blues19]

thosse do look nice

[Vilbig jr]

I love doing this! I use about a 1/2 oz spot remover with some type of big crawdad bait on deep timber and they tear it up

[Primus]

Ive got a question for y'all using the Megastrike jig heads. I started using spot removers a while back and the gap on the hook was not nearly big enough for thick worms or plastics, like a brush hog.  They were fine for baby brush hogs and skinny worms, but the point of power shaky head is for bigger thicker baits, right? So, do those MegaStrike jig heads have enough gap, or do they offer EWG jigheads?  I found a local store in Kentucky when I go and I stock up on the wide gap jig heads so i can power shakey.  This place also has a little local guy who makes some floating baits in similar shapes like a Brush Hog and big 10" Ribbon tail worms. They are pretty sweet cause those jokers stand STRAIGHT up in the water. Thanks guys!

 

I do the same thing with 5" & 6" Senko style baits, I have them poured in a no salt floating formula. This has been very effective for me fished on a 1/4 or 3/8 oz football style shaky head.

[Amarley]

Ive got a question for y'all using the Megastrike jig heads. I started using spot removers a while back and the gap on the hook was not nearly big enough for thick worms or plastics, like a brush hog.  They were fine for baby brush hogs and skinny worms, but the point of power shaky head is for bigger thicker baits, right? So, do those MegaStrike jig heads have enough gap, or do they offer EWG jigheads?  I found a local store in Kentucky when I go and I stock up on the wide gap jig heads so i can power shakey.  This place also has a little local guy who makes some floating baits in similar shapes like a Brush Hog and big 10" Ribbon tail worms. They are pretty sweet cause those jokers stand STRAIGHT up in the water. Thanks guys!

Are you talking about Sneed products out of Scottsville, KY? www.sneedproducts.com

 

I just bought some of their stuff last week. They started making some brush hog style baits that are meant to fish on shaky heads and have been tearing up local tournaments around here in Southern Kentucky.