I keep seeing an advertisement for this Ned Head and I am intrigued because it looks incredibly weedless but I am worried the angle wouldn't pin the fish very well and cause a lot of fish lost before landing them.  Has anyone tried these?  

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/232586002629

So pretty much 12 fiddy TYD, at $2.50 a jig head? I can understand why you might be intrigued @JediAmoeba, but I’d pass personally and look for another option.

 

Good luck and be well ?

Agree it looks needless but I don't think I could bring myself to trust those hooks. The hook bend just looks off. I'd pass. 

This product has been discussed before on BR forums with negative results.

Tom

if you really need it totally weedless, try the tiny child rig instead

Check out lifted jigs on TW

I don't need any weedless Ned's honestly - I just kept seeing these advertised in my Facebook feed and I am a sucker for tackle.  They just didn't look to be great to me but it seems a lot of people are buying them.  

I use Lifted Jigs EWG jig heads for weedless Ned applications.  They work pretty good.

 

I don't think those hooks are manufactured. I believe those hooks are being bent by someone into those odd angles, which is going to severely weaken an already thin wire hook. Even if they're not, those sharp angles aren't going to be real great at keeping a fish pinned.

 

Tacklewarehouse literally has a whole page devoted to Ned rig accessories though. Lots of offset and weedguard "Ned" heads listed.

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Ned_Rig_Fishing/catpage-NEDRIGFISH.html

 

I bought 15 of these off FB. Not really a Ned rig head with a 1/8oz head and 2/0 hook, I just want them for something like a finesse shakyhead.

On 4/18/2020 at 4:36 PM, nascar2428 said:

Check out lifted jigs on TW

 

How well does a normal TRD and TRD craw rig on these? They look to be too big to truly texas rig them and keep the bait straight. 

Just now, TBAG said:

How well does a normal TRD and TRD craw rig on these?

Normal TRD's work pretty well.  It's a 1/0 hook and sometimes takes a little work to get on straight, at least for me, and stays on nicely.  A little super glue makes it permanent.

 

I've not used TRD craws on it.

1 hour ago, DogBone_384 said:

Normal TRD's work pretty well.  It's a 1/0 hook and sometimes takes a little work to get on straight, at least for me, and stays on nicely.  A little super glue makes it permanent.

 

I've not used TRD craws on it.

 

Cool, I'll give them a shot. 

On 4/18/2020 at 12:48 PM, JediAmoeba said:

I keep seeing an advertisement for this Ned Head and I am intrigued because it looks incredibly weedless but I am worried the angle wouldn't pin the fish very well and cause a lot of fish lost before landing them.  Has anyone tried these?  

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/232586002629

$8.49 per 5 pack plus shipping ? I like the concept but I'll just stay with my Siebert Outdoors Morel 1/16th oz. jig head in the appropriate hook options .

I still like a Morel Ned jig Heads (Siebert Outdoors) with the Owner #2 hook in 1/16th oz. size . *I also found a guy on E-Bay who makes a killer 1/24th oz. plain lead color Ned head using a by me specified Eagle Claw #4 size  'Lil Nasty hook . When I get them I paint them up using Testors enamel model paint (thanks Cali Tom) . I buy them in bags of 50 or 100 and a small drop of Super Glue gell seals the deal with a Z-Man TRD attached  ... If you are getting hung up with a Ned jig then most likely you are using too large of a hook , too heavy a jig head - or both . 

Of the weedless mushroom heads, the lifted jigs is the best one I've found so far. Owner (maybe jackall) has a ball head that is similar that was on amazon, I think it's a JDM product. It was fine, but the marked as size 1 was still as long as a 1/0 ewg. Still hunting for a true weedless with a smaller hook. I'm at about 15 different brands and styles in the box now trying to find exactly what I'm looking for.

 

But per the advice from around here, the really light heads (1/15 or 1/16) with size 1 or 2 hooks are surprisingly snag free if you work it gently through cover. Occasionally starts to get a snag and a tiny little bow-style pull and release will pop it free. I've been fishing that for now to see if I really needed it to be as weedless/brushless as I thought. Still on the same head nearly 100 fish in, but I'm also not throwing it directly into a nasty brushpile.