Finesse fishing for bass has been refined over the years thanks to better hooks, materials and addressing of certain shortcomings with the original jighead designs. The newer Mustad Elite Series Football Heads incorporate a lot of small design features to give you a solid shaky head or small jig option for your finesse fishing. Here are a few of the features I found interesting about these new jigheads from Mustad.
Double keeper barb
The Mustad Elite Series Football jigheads feature a fine wire with sharp double barb keepers under the head to securely hold your plastics in place. The barbs with the optional collar ring work together to hold even small worms snug to the head. It can take a little maneuvering to get the worm to slide up over the optional collar ring, but I found once there, if you poke a little a barb just out of the plastic it will help lock it all in place. Which is nice because with the lighter heads I could really sling them hard under dock walkways and low hanging trees.
