Shakey Head

[krisjack69]

What is the best bait to use on a shakey head and any other help would be great.I bought some shakey heads over the summer and figure I need to try em sometime.I never done shakey head fishing before and would like to know any and all info about it.

[Raul]

In practical terms any soft plastic bait works on a shakey head.

[Tin]

The finesse worm is probably the most popular and productive.

[radman]

When I fish a shakey head 99% of the time I am using a 4 3/4 inch yum houdini worm, color of worm depends on water clarity. But any type of small soft plastic will work when you need a finesse presentation. I like to use 8lb silver thread fluorocarbon it is some very tuff line.

[krisjack69]

How would I thread the worm on the hook?Like texas rig worm hook or what?Any pic of one rigged would be great

[Tin]

Texas, very easy to rig if the jighead has a screw.

[radman]

The heads designed for shakey head fishing are made with either a spring or something to stick the worm on and some like the tru tungston ikey heads are a offset hook. But yes you pretty much texas rig them on whatever head you use. I like they spotremover, but I just found some football head for shakey head fishing from strikeking that looks good. Always make sure it has a good hook, and go light as you can when fishing. wind and deep fishing you will need to go heavier.

[Raul]

The heads designed for shakey head fishing are made with either a spring or something to stick the worm on .

Not entirely accurate, the only difference between a shakey head and a regular jighead is the size of the hook.

You can pour your own shakey heads ( like I 've done for years ) and not need a bait hanger on them to hold the bait, you rig the bait just like if you were rigging a t-rig bait and use the bait holder along the neck to keep the bait from sliding from the hook.

Now if you want a more fancy looking shakey head you pour the jighead with a 3-4-5 or 6/0 hook and attach a Tru Turn HitchHiker to the hook eye to screw in the bait.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

this is with a standard straight jig head.If using a 6 inch or longer worm sometimes bite(yum) the first 3/4 inch or so off.A drop of glue may be reccomended as plastic sliding down can be an issue.

[Raul]

Did the glue thing ....... ended up with the jighead, worm and glue bottle attached to 3 fingers on my left hand.  :-?

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Like was already said,any plastic will work,limited only by imagination.Preferrably something that will get a lot of subtle smooth action with very little rod movement.Normally when you fish this you want to try to keep it in place as much as possible then move forward little by little when you dont get a bite.Work the bait slowly like you arent trying to draw attention to it and sneaking it by the fish.Not crazy and erratic such as works with standard texas rigs sometimes.

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Did the glue thing ....... ended up with the jighead, worm and glue bottle attached to 3 fingers on my left hand. :-?

way to go Raul   Did ya lose any skin over it?  

[radman]

If you don't want your fingers stuck to anything, just go buy some spotremovers or some type of head you can just stick the worm on.

[Raul]

Did the glue thing ....... ended up with the jighead, worm and glue bottle attached to 3 fingers on my left hand. :-?

way to go Raul Did ya lose any skin over it?

Actually I stared at my hand for a good 10 min or so asking to myself:

1.- how stoopid I must look with the bait & glue bottle sticking to my fingers

2.- Am I retarded or what ? should have checked how big the hole in the glue bottle was

3.- really, all they need is a drop of glue ........ not the entire content of the darn glue bottle !

Didn 't loose any skin though, I always carry a tiny bottle of acetone ..... just in case  , my practice has shown me that when you use cyanoacrylate you should always have a bottle of acetone at hand, and I mean AT HAND AT ALL TIMES ! otherwise, try to reach for the bottle you got right there 20 ft from you when you 've got your fingers glued to the skin of a 120 lb dead asleep Rottweiler.

[Evan Pease]

I prefer a Zoom Ultravibe Craw for shakeys. The places I fish are wormed to death so I mix it up lol.

[Bassboy15]

I've only fished it one time but I used a giggy stick, got one bite in ten minutes though when temps were low 30s and 30 mph wind...

[krisjack69]

Thanks for the reply guys.I thought I was banned for making this post but I guess not.It said when I came here sorry u are banned from using the forums but I guess everything is fine now.Whew that was a close one lol.Is there a way to wacky rig a yum dinger on a long shank shakey head?

[HookMaster]

good info!

[Raul]

Thanks for the reply guys.I thought I was banned for making this post but I guess not.It said when I came here sorry u are banned from using the forums but I guess everything is fine now.Whew that was a close one lol.Is there a way to wacky rig a yum dinger on a long shank shakey head?

Weeeeelllll, you just wacky rig it ya know. But, why would you want a shakey head to wacky rig a stickbait when a common & ordinary weedless or non weedless jighead serves the purpose and it 's by far a lot less expensive than a shakey jighead ?

[krisjack69]

Well there the only jigheads I've got lol.

[LCpointerKILLA]

Rock on with the giggy stick, they are an awesome worm for the shakey head.

[JT Bagwell]

My best producing shakey head bait this year was the Yamamoto Shad Shape Worm. It started off

as a bait I only used on a drop shot rig and then one day I tried it on a shakey head. It is really an awesome bait. (sorry if I let anyone's secret bait out)

JT Bagwell

[Davis]

My best producing shakey head bait this year was the Yamamoto Shad Shape Worm. It started off

as a bait I only used on a drop shot rig and then one day I tried it on a shakey head. It is really an awesome bait. (sorry if I let anyone's secret bait out)

JT Bagwell

JT isn't that bait a bit to short though for a shakey head? I bought a pack and was thinking of jerking them and dropshotting them. Never thought about throwing them on a shakey head. Wouldn't it be too stiff because the bait would pretty much be all hook?

Curious is all.

[jwo1124]

I haven't got a lot of experience with the skaey head, but I have heard that a good bait is the Strike King 3X plastic worm. The worm is very bouyant in the water and has great action with the shakey head. I saw Shaw Grigbsy using this set up once on his show for targeting smallmouth on sandy flats in clear water. Also, Berkely makes a Powerbait brand Shakey Head worm.

Hope this can be some help to you.

[JT Bagwell]

No, it is not too short, I used them a lot this year. A shakey head with a 2/0 hook works great. I have a Shad Shape Worm laying here on my desk (along with a bunch of other lures and hooks) and I just stuck a 4/0 hook in it just to see if it would make it to rigid and it didn't. There is still roughly 1 3/4" to 2" past a 4/0 hook.

Since you already bought a pack, give them a shot.

JT Bagwell