There was a topic about these around a year ago I think but it didn't get much attention so I thought I would try my luck this time. Has anybody fished these with success? Pros/Cons? I'm more so interested in hook ups with their slender long shank hook. The river is rising so I thought I may just dink around with these on some backwater gravel on smallmouth this weekend. I hate to shy away from the Pumpkin E2D but these look neat and finding pumpkin ed's in 1/8 and 3/16 seems darn near impossible. Always sold out and never reordered in local stores. I've read there are also other companies that make a copy of these but /w better components and and EWG hook. If you know of them I'd love to try. Fall smallmouth shaky head fishing is coming up quick!

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-videos/jig-heads.html

Theres some good information in there I just watched about Arkie heads.

That is a great video. However, it has nothing to do with the u-head.

I have used them a lot and have given them plenty of opportunity to prove their performance. I like the design using a regular offset worm hook. BUT not any more. The hooks are very weak for the wire diameter they have and are not as sharp as most other hooks I use.

As far as copies, I would not buy them if they have EWG hooks, only with a quality offset worm hook in at least the 3/0 size.

Love em and use em regularly. I typically only use a zoom trick worm with it and it just kills em where I fish. I rarely miss a fish and in fact I don't think I have using these so far. Tht first time I threw these I caught 8 in an hour so they pretty much sold me on them. I typically get great side hooksets or roof of tht mouth hooksets most of tht time.

Like the head, the hook is crap though.

Could you cut off the stock hook, add a split ring, then add the hook of you choice?

That would be called a jika rig.