Do you guys use lizards with spot removers and shakey heads? If so, what size lizards do you use? Is it better to use a spot remover over the shakey?

I use Zoom 4" Green Pumpkin Lizards and a Bite-Me 3/16 oz. shakey head jig with a Tru-Turn Hitchhiker. Has been my top producer this year by far.

I'd use it on a shaky head.

I'd use it on a shaky head.

I'm curious, Fluke.  Because you brought this up some time ago.  

What is the significant difference between a Spot Remover and (Bagley)Shakey Head?   I'm not talking about the physicial difference in construction/form, I know about those, but what is different about them with respect to fishing technique.

I fish both and I fish them exactly the same.  I have a preference for one or the other depending on the type of bottom, but other than that, what is it that makes them so different?

the spot remover will keep the bait more vertical than a shakey, and most lizards i have tried wont stand/float vertical, i love 4inch liz's on shakeys, but i stick to finesse and floaters on the SR's

I'd use it on a shaky head.

I'm curious, Fluke. Because you brought this up some time ago.

What is the significant difference between a Spot Remover and (Bagley)Shakey Head? I'm not talking about the physicial difference in construction/form, I know about those, but what is different about them with respect to fishing technique.

I fish both and I fish them exactly the same. I have a preference for one or the other depending on the type of bottom, but other than that, what is it that makes them so different?

I'm going to be short with this and I don't mean any disrespect.

Spot Remover- Stand up head. Originally designed for a hop-pause technique. If you shake it like a shaky head it will fall over most of the time. It is also deadly when dragged across pea gravel or shell beds.

Shaky head - Round head jig with a long shank hook. As the name implies, it is design to be hoped or drug on the bottom and during the pause you shake it. This causes the worm to wiggle 30 to 40 degrees off the bottom.

I have found that the weight of the lizard causes the Spot Remover to fall over on its side shortly after it hits the bottom. That is why the Shaky head would be best for this.

I use the spot remover on the tidal creeks I fished because they have hard, sandy bottoms and they stand up better.  I used Bagley Shaky Heads, the only kind I've tried, in grassier areas because they slip through a bit better.  Otherwise, I fish them very much the same - hop and wiggle.  The Bagley does not have a perfectly round head, but is flattened on the bottom, but not quite to the extent of the Spot Remover.   That's the reason I ask, the Spot remover and the Bagley Shaky Head are appear to have very much the same use in mind.

The only head I use that I emply a "drag" technique with are football head spiral lock finesse jig heads.   These seem to be much better for that technique than either the of the above heads, and are better as keeping the bait from falling over sideways.  

Just my observations.

I would find a guy that pours football head screw lock heads. You will thank him the dont fall over at all i have tried to make them

I use the BPS Finesse Football Jig heads with screw lock.  I like them a lot.  The paint is very durable and the hooks are very nice - Gamakatsus.   I use 1/16, 1/8 and 1/4 oz heads.   It's a very good head, IMO.

Micro, good picture, i was actually about to do the same thing....

I like using the spot remover to hop around the pad beds on my lake..... the bagley shakey works great too..... but i dont use it when i need the bait to stay upright because it falls over.....    i use the shakey for faster applications than the spotremover..... but theyre both great!

If I were gonna fish a lizard on any of those heads, I'd use the football head.   The 90 degree eye makes the bait wag when you are dragging it.  It gives it really nice motion.  

The only thing I don't like about the football head in that picture is the spiral lock.  I like spiral locks but the diameter on that one I a little too wide.  If I use it with worms, I always clip the tip off the worm so I have a flat end to screw onto the spiral lock.