In an effort to remain as economical as is practical and considering I am predominantly a shore fisherman am I correct in thinking limiting my jig selection to football heads and banana shaped Arkie jig head as I feel I am best served by a jig head design(s) that makes the bait present the hook and trailer pointing up at a 45* angle more or less.

I didn't get to fish jigs at all last year and my spring fishing got wrecked by work so I am just now amassing my jig and trailers selection.

I wish to purchase a bunch of Seibert Outdoors Grid Iron Arkie jigs to get me started.

Try strike king bitsy bug and bitsy flipping jigs. They don't break the bank if you hang one up, plenty of effective colors, and a variety of sizes.

The original bitsy has a rounder head, a bendable hook, and goes down to 1/8oz. I use 3/16oz more than anything, but have plenty of 1/8 and 1/4oz as well.

The flipping version has a more streamlined head, very stout hook and starts at 1/4oz, which is what I mostly use.

I don't really care for an Arky style head unless I'm flipping stuff with wood mixed in.

Dragging bottom says football. I'm all about compact. If Keitech made a Model 2 with a halfway decent hook, I'd never throw anything else.

In summer, I'll sometimes target grass with a ballhead finesse jig and a kicking trailer. Get hung in grass, rip out, bass eat.

To me it depends on the bottom:

For a rocky bottom a football head, for a softer bottom a standup head, and an Arkie head for the bottom of the trash can.

8 hours ago, ElGuapo928 said:

To me it depends on the bottom:

For a rocky bottom a football head, for a softer bottom a standup head, and an Arkie head for the bottom of the trash can.

Why exactly do do you not like Arkie head jigs?

I know next to nothing about bottom contact bass jigs but based on a lot of videos I thought Arkie heads were effective and popular

Lastly

is a stand up jig head called that or another name.

30 minutes ago, CDMTJager said:

Why exactly do do you not like Arkie head jigs?

I know next to nothing about bottom contact bass jigs but based on a lot of videos I thought Arkie heads were effective and popular

Lastly

is a stand up jig head called that or another name.

Arkie heads are great for flipping timber/weeds, but have a terrible tendency to roll to the side when working the bottom, and hang up horribly in rocks.

Standup heads are shaped/designed to keep the hook upright and the jig mimicking a crawdad in defensive posture. Chompers makes an excellent head for this (1/4 oz head with a 4” Hula grub is deadly).

36 minutes ago, ElGuapo928 said:

Arkie heads are great for flipping timber/weeds, but have a terrible tendency to roll to the side when working the bottom, and hang up horribly in rocks.

Standup heads are shaped/designed to keep the hook upright and the jig mimicking a crawdad in defensive posture. Chompers makes an excellent head for this (1/4 oz head with a 4” Hula grub is deadly).

Thank you for educating me. As I currently do zero P&F of jigs I will stay away form Arkie head jigs.

One of my favorites for bank fishing is a 1/4 oz football head with a Berkley Chigger Bug trailer - works just about everywhere without too many snags.

When I'm fishing from the bank I will have a 1/8 oz. Bitsy Bug tied on. Most of the small water I fish is either weed choked, or has vegetation encircling the entire body of water. A quick snap pulls that small size jig through the weeds fairly easy.

Thanks again for the suggestions and helping to educate me on the finer points of jig fishing. I just figured out I when I am listing to YT fishing channels I often forget their lurer buying recommendations are made under the assumption those that are going to fallow their buying advice are also so boat fishermen like they are, hence the popularity of Arkie style jig heads for P&F which is essentially never an option for a shore fishermen.