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Is anyone making shakyhead with a fine wire, wide gap, offset hooks that can be Texas rigged? I've been using the VMC rugby heads, but their hooks are a little too big for what I'm using them for. If someone could make me some 1/8 oz and 3/16 oz shakyheads to my specifications, I'd buy I'd buy about 100 of each. If not, can someone point me towards a mold, so I can pour them myself? 

Do-it makes a "shake it" mold with a screw lock.  The upside of pouring your own jigs is that you can use any hook you want.

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I need something that can be Texas rigged. I don't like screw locks.

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1 hour ago, S. Doolittle said:

I need something that can be Texas rigged. I don't like screw locks.

I use these on light 7# fluorocarbon. I know you don't like screw locks but this has a light-wire, ewg hook for texas rigging. 

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There's no mold for that. I have seen a version of what you wanted, but can't think of what the name was! It wasn't the VMC, and it was unpainted. I think tacklejunky81 uses them also???

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41 minutes ago, Kevin22 said:

There's no mold for that. I have seen a version of what you wanted, but can't think of what the name was! It wasn't the VMC, and it was unpainted. I think tacklejunky81 uses them also???

Owner Ultrahead Finesse Ball Head 

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13 hours ago, iabass8 said:

Owner Ultrahead Finesse Ball Head 

Those are pretty close to what I'm looking for. I wish they had a fine wire hook, but I'll give them a try. Thanks for the help everyone. 

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I've inquired about heads like that a long time ago and here is the deal. The rugby heads and the Gamakatsu Skip Gap heads are what I wanted to make, I have friends that use the Elaztech plastic from Strike King and Z-Man and screw locks don't play well with those and so they asked if I could make a head like that. Getting a mold made isn't the problem, I have to have a hook made with an offset like a worm hook but it would need to have  an elongated hook eye leg that would make a 60 or 90 degree turn so you can pour a head on it and still have enough room to rig. There was only 1 company that would make the hooks to my design, I'd have to buy 50K minimum and only 1 size and that would cost over 5 figures, I was quoted that a hook like that in a 3/0 wide gap, not EWG, would run 22 cents per hook making just the hook cost $11,000, then the mold would be about $500 or so. I looked into that after seeing the skip gap head from Gamakatsu, but I use regular plastic and even after using those rugby heads and stuff I found I like the screw lock and that is because it holds, the T-rigged heads still have the problem of the plastic getting pulled down after awhile.

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Slider makes a really good head that stands upright, and they have a few versions...Check out the spider heads..They also have a wide gap, and then they make a snagless which is different but has plenty of uses...

You can buy the slider jigheads in pks of 20 and the spider Pro heads stand upright and you can throw them on heavy gear, they also have stand up jigs that have thinner guage hooks. I forget how they break down the 5 different models, but you can google and get good info...I find the Slider Jig heads to be the most versatile for shaky head fishing and texas rigging....Swim Jigs as well....

hagens Fish sells shaky heads in bulk, 100 or 1000, I think they have a few similar to what you want....I have never really looked at them but I know a few guys buy them in bulk and then sell them online...

Actually Slider has added a ton of hooks that look like they may be a good fit....

 

http://www.sliderfishing.com/HEADS-HOOKS_c7.htm

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