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wat should i use with a 5inch shaky worm?

i was lookin at a football head style but i dont know wat size and weight to use :-/

3/8 ounce shaky head/jighead    if you can find a 3/8 ounce shakey head with an over size hook  buy that   u will have fun shakey head fishing is awesome   do u deadstick?

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Andrew, you can't go wrong with your shaky head presentation using a five inch finesse or 3X Strike King worm.

Read up on the shaky head presentation on this site's article section or Google shaky head and read what others suggest.

There are the football heads and the round heads so you can get confused easily.

Right now it seems that the makers of the shaky head jigs are starting to advertise how their jig head design will hold the worm up in the water column.

Gary Yamamoto has a new shaky head jig for $3.49 in five weights and four hook sizes to meet all of your needs.  He claims his shaky head jig can come through weeds and brush cleanly when fishing weedless Texas-rigged baits.

For $3.49 it should also land and put the fish in the well.

So read about the shaky head technique and then go out and experiment.

I guess I'm cheap, but I still use plain old ball jigs ranging from 1/8-3/8 oz for shaky head presentations with a 4/0 hook. I use a Hitch Hiker to attach the worm and rig it Tx posed. Still, I don't fish a shaky head in the weeds, at best just around them.

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umm i dont usually dead stick. i like to give a few good twitches then let it sit for a few seconds, repeat

yea thats what i normally do to but i had some good days rigging a shakey worm on a shakyhead and just dead sticking it   its easy too do if the bite is slow  u dont even have to change rigs or baits  just presention  

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