Freshwater Bass Jigs & Wire Baits

Elevate your finesse fishing with the Z-Man Chatterbait Flashback Mini, a deadly, compact bladed jig designed to trigger aggressive strikes from a wide variety of species. By combining a downsized version of the patented hex-shaped ChatterBlade with a hand-painted, holographic minnow body, Z-Man has created a unique bait that excels in clear water and heavily pressured fisheries.

Unlike standard bladed jigs, the Flashback Mini features a skirtless design, allowing it to slip through the water with a more subtle, streamlined approach. Its signature direct head-to-blade connection ensures the bait starts thumping and vibrating the moment you begin your retrieve, delivering an exaggerated side-to-side hunting action that fish find irresistible.

Key Features:

• Patented ChatterBait Design: Features the famous direct-to-head blade connection for instant vibration and a hard-hitting side-to-side shimmy.

• Holographic Flash: The hand-painted minnow body is infused with multi-hue holographic foil, creating a realistic flash that mimics high-protein forage.

• Skirtless Finesse Profile: Offers a more subtle and natural presentation than full-sized jigs, making it ideal for wary trout, panfish, and pond bass.

• Multi-Species Dominance: A highly versatile tool for targeting crappie, bluegill, perch, trout, and bass in both fresh and brackish water.

• Superior Durability: Built to withstand dozens of catches, with some anglers reporting over 100 fish on a single rig before needing a replacement.

• Complete Package: Each pack comes pre-rigged with one minnow body and includes one additional unrigged curly tail body for versatile presentation options.

• Ultra-Light Performance: Available in 1/16 and 1/8 ounce weights, perfect for ultra-light tackle and small bodies of water.

Dominate the water with the Z-Man Jack Hammer Chatterbait, widely considered the most refined and winningest bladed jig on the professional circuit. Co-developed by "Bladed Jig Master" Brett Hite and Japanese luremaker EverGreen International, this premium vibrating jig is engineered with a flat-bottom, low-center-of-gravity head that allows it to skip under docks and track true at any speed.

The Jack Hammer features a super-thin, hexagonal stainless steel blade that starts thumping the moment it hits the water. A specialized channel groove in the head allows the blade to strike the jig, producing a signature hard-hitting "chattering" sound while ensuring the blade never detaches. Combined with hand-tied silicone skirts and a heavy-duty Gamakatsu flipping hook, the Jack Hammer is built for high-percentage hooksets and extreme durability in heavy cover.

Key Features:

• Instant Start-Up Action: The signature head and blade combo ensures the bait starts vibrating quickly and hunting side-to-side like a frantic baitfish.

• Low CG Head Design: A flat-bottom, weight-forward head makes it one of the best skipping bladed jigs ever made for getting under docks and overhanging trees.

• Premium Components: Armed with a needle-sharp Gamakatsu heavy wire hook and a snag-resistant Decoy Egg Snap line tie for maximum durability.

• Dual Wire Bait Keeper: Features two heavy-duty wire keepers that lock your soft plastic trailers (like the Yamamoto Zako firmly in place for more casts and fewer re-rigs.

• Refined Aesthetics: Hand-tied skirts in pro-driven patterns are matched with color-coordinated head and blade paint schemes for a seamless, natural presentation.

• Tournament-Proven Performance: Responsible for more tour-level wins than any other vibrating jig, excelling in everything

The Keitech Tungsten Football Jig Model II (Version 2.0) is a premium rubber jig built for both deep and shallow water fishing. Version 2.0 features a natural tungsten-colored head. Keitech's tungsten head material is harder than lead, providing exceptional bottom sensitivity. The 5-fiber weedguard deflects most snags while still allowing easy hooksets, and the hand-tied SR-40 extra-fine silicone skirt delivers a lifelike, flowing action.

Key Features

• Sold individually (1 per pack)
• Tungsten head — harder than lead for superior bottom sensitivity
• Version 2.0 — natural tungsten-colored head
• 5-fiber weedguard — snag-resistant with easy hooksets
• SR-40 hand-tied extra-fine silicone skirt
• Gamakatsu #2/0 hook
• Available sizes: 1/4 oz, 3/8 oz, 1/2 oz
• 8 colors: Dark Green Pumpkin Pepper, Green Pumpkin Pepper, Green Pumpkin Black, Brown Purple, Green Pumpkin PP Blue Flake, Black Blue, Black, Green Pumpkin Chartreuse

• Compact Metal Body: Compact design allows for long casts to maximize your fishing
• Original Jackall Blade: The rear blade gives out flashes and vibration. The bearing swivel allows it to move better with a lift and fall technique
• Special Tube: located in the rear, this special tube reduces line tangles

The football shaped head and flat eye hook of the Dirty Jigs Finesse Football jig allows the hook to ride upright at all times. This makes all the difference in getting those fish to the boat when fishing clear water with light line. Features a 60° flat eye Mustad ULTRA POINT 1X strong jig hook with new 4.3 Microsharp Point Technology, a large lead barb plastic trailer keeper, and skirt collar that accepts our double rattle system. Skirts come full length giving you the option of a full skirt or trim the front to achieve a slim spider cut profile.

Down sizing for the clear water don't have to down size quality, lead barb trailer keeper and full size skirt.

The Dobyns Skirted Football Jigs give your freshwater tackle box a carefully built football-jig option in a convenient three-pack. Each jig is hand-tied with a custom-colored skirt that combines round rubber and silicone, then finished with a Gamakatsu 604 round bend hook and a four-barb bait keeper to help hold your trailer in place.

A Hand-Tied Jig with a Purpose

These are not generic, one-color jigs. The custom skirt combinations give you a range of looks to match your water and presentation, while the football-jig profile keeps the focus on a controlled, bottom-oriented fishing approach.

Keep the Trailer Locked In

A good trailer is only useful if it stays where you put it. Each Dobyns jig includes a special four-barb bait keeper designed to hold the trailer in place, so you can spend more time fishing and less time resetting the bait.

Why This Three-Pack Earns a Spot

• Hand-tied construction: Each jig is assembled with a custom-colored skirt.
• Two skirt materials: The skirt combines round rubber and silicone.
• Trusted hook design: Built around the Gamakatsu 604 round bend jig hook.
• Trailer security: The four-barb bait keeper helps hold trailers in place.
• Useful pack size: Each package includes three jigs.

The Right Pick If...

Choose the Dobyns Football Jigs when you want a hand-tied football-jig presentation, multiple color choices, and a trailer keeper built into the jig. The available 3/8 oz and 1/2 oz sizes keep the selection simple: choose the weight that fits your setup, then choose the skirt color that matches your conditions.

What It Does Well, and What to Keep in Mind

The strength of this jig is its focused design: hand-tied skirts, a specified Gamakatsu hook, and a four-barb keeper in a ready-to-fish three-pack. The main buying decision is whether the football-jig profile and available weights fit the presentation you want, rather than treating it as a one-size-fits-everything jig.

Best Techniques and Conditions

The current listing is categorized for freshwater fishing and built around football-jig applications. Use it when a skirted jig presentation and the football-jig profile make sense for your setup. Specific target species are not identified in the current product data, so match the selected size and color to your local water, forage, and tackle.

Best For

• Freshwater football-jig presentations
• Anglers who want hand-tied skirts instead of a plain, mass-produced look
• Trailer-based jig setups that benefit from a four-barb keeper
• Keeping multiple colors and spare jigs ready in one three-pack

Models and Specs

Current Color Options

Brown Orange Special, Midnight Red, Green Weenie, Rootbeer Green Pumpkin Craw, Craw Daddy, Mud Craw, Magic Craw, Two Toned Brown Purple, and Two Toned Brown Craw.

Tackle Express Tips

1. Choose the weight first, then select the skirt color that best fits your water and forage pattern.
2. Seat the trailer firmly over the four-barb keeper before the first cast and check it after hard cover contact.
3. Keep the extra jigs from the three-pack ready as replacements when a productive color is getting worn.

Questions Anglers Ask

How many jigs come in a pack?
Each pack includes three Dobyns Skirted Football Jigs.

What sizes are available?
The current listing offers 3/8 oz and 1/2 oz options.

What holds the trailer in place?
Each jig includes a special four-barb bait keeper.

Comparing football-jig options? Also see the Dirty Jigs Tour Level Skirted Football Jig, the Strike King Tour Grade Football Jig, and Bass Patrol Football Jigs.

The Z-Man ChatterBait Elite EVO is a high-performance bladed jig designed to deliver the premium features of elite baits like the Jack Hammer but at a more accessible mid-market price point. It features a unique head and blade geometry that produces a radical, unpredictable hunting action that fish find hard to ignore.

Key Performance Features

• Instant Start-Up: Features Z-Man’s patented direct head-to-blade connection and a signature hex-shaped ChatterBlade, ensuring the lure starts thumping the second you turn the reel handle.

• Erratic Hunting Action: The blade-to-head angle and blunt nose design cause the bait to wander and dart randomly during retrieval, mimicking a distressed baitfish.

• Upgraded Durability: Equipped with a wire-tied 100% silicone skirt that provides more natural flare and longevity compared to standard rubber collars that can dry out and slip.

• Advanced Trailer Retention: Uses a hybrid molded split-grip and wire keeper system to lock soft plastic trailers securely in place, even when ripping through heavy grass.

When bass get finicky, downsize. The Strike King Bitsy Bug Jig is built for exactly those moments — a compact, precisely tied jig with a premium silicone skirt and fiber weedguard that punches through cover without hanging up. Equally deadly on smallmouth and largemouth, it shines in clear water, rocky structure, and pressured fisheries where big jigs get ignored. At this price, you can fish it confidently in the gnarliest spots without thinking twice.

Key Features

• Downsized profile — ideal for finicky fish and clear water conditions
• Premium silicone skirt — lifelike action and color on every fall
• Fiber weedguard — snag-resistant through rocks and cover
• Effective on both smallmouth and largemouth bass
• Available in 4 sizes: 1/16, 3/16, 1/8, and 1/4 oz
• 10 proven color patterns — sold 1 per pack

Specifications

Enhance your tail spinner fishing with the Damiki Axe Blade Tail Spinners. Its unique design features a double hook just below the spinner blade, increasing your chances of landing short bites. Available in multiple colors, this bait is perfect for targeting suspended fish. Count it down, retrieve slowly, and let the Axe Blade do the work.

Damiki Axe Blade Tail Spinners:

Dirty Jigs Swim Jigs are a Coosa River style swim jig features a 50 strand full skirt that gives this bait a more bulky profile for use in dirtier water or any time bass are targeting large shad or bream. There is no light wire hook here, the 5/0 3X Mustad hook is sharp enough to stick the fish with little effort but has all the strength of a heavy wire flipping hook.

This jig features a bullet head for better movement through vegetation and 3-D eyes for a more realistic look. Available in 1/4oz - 4/0 Hook, 5/16oz - 5/0 Hook, 3/8oz - 5/0 Hook, and 1/2oz - 5/0 Hook. 

Premium Alabama Rig for Multi-Bait Bass Fishing

The Warbaits War-Rig delivers premium Alabama rig performance designed for serious bass anglers who demand maximum attraction and effectiveness. Built with quality construction and optimized multi-wire design, this umbrella rig provides exceptional schooling baitfish presentation, multiple lure capability, and proven effectiveness for targeting bass with realistic baitfish schools. The War-Rig represents Warbaits' commitment to creating quality Alabama rigs for bass fishing.

Advanced Multi-Wire Alabama Rig Design

• Multi-Wire Configuration: Multiple arms create realistic schooling baitfish presentation
• Quality Construction: Durable wire frame withstands heavy use and big bass
• Optimized Design: Balanced configuration provides ideal swimming action
• Multiple Lure Capability: Accommodates multiple swimbaits or soft plastics
• Realistic Presentation: Mimics natural baitfish school for maximum attraction

Premium Construction Features

• Durable Wire: Heavy-duty wire construction ensures long-lasting performance
• Quality Components: Premium materials withstand demanding fishing conditions
• Balanced Design: Optimized weight distribution provides natural swimming action
• Strong Construction: Built to handle multiple baits and big bass
• Proven Configuration: Time-tested Alabama rig design triggers strikes

Multi-Bait Bass Fishing Applications

The War-Rig excels in multi-bait bass fishing applications. Perfect for targeting schooling bass, fishing open water and deep structure, slow rolling around points and ledges, imitating shad schools, or any situation where realistic baitfish school presentation is critical. The multi-wire configuration creates the appearance of a natural baitfish school that triggers aggressive strikes from bass while the quality construction ensures reliable performance when fishing multiple baits.

Key Features

Warbaits Quality

Warbaits has been creating quality fishing lures for serious bass anglers, and the War-Rig continues this tradition with premium Alabama rig construction and quality components. Every rig is manufactured to exacting standards to ensure consistent performance. From weekend anglers to serious bass specialists, the War-Rig delivers the multi-bait performance that Alabama rig anglers demand.

Experience the premium Alabama rig performance that serious bass anglers trust. The Warbaits War-Rig isn't just an umbrella rig—it's a precision tool built for multi-bait fishing success.

Catch more bass with realistic baitfish schools using Warbaits War-Rig—where multi-wire design meets Alabama rig performance.

Unlock the ultimate finesse presentation with the Z-Man ShroomZ Micro Finesse Jig, a compact, skirted jighead designed to entice even the most finicky predators. Built on the legendary mushroom-shaped head that popularized the Ned Rig, this micro-sized jig adds a flowing, lifelike attraction that excels in clear water and high-pressure situations.

The standout feature of the ShroomZ Micro Finesse Jig is its 100% silicone skirt, custom-designed to deliver a tantalizingly slow fall rate and a realistic profile that mimics small crawfish or aquatic bugs. Despite its small size, it is built with high-quality hardware, including a size 1 black nickel light-wire hook that ensures effortless hook sets on light tackle.

Key Features:

• Mushroom-Style Head: The signature flat-bottom design allows your bait to stand straight up on the bottom, creating a natural, defensive posture.

• Slow, Tantalizing Fall: The fine-cut silicone skirt creates extra water resistance, slowing the descent to keep the bait in the strike zone longer.

• Adjustable Wire Weedguard: Features a dual multi-strand wire guard that provides snag resistance in wood and rocks without hindering hook penetration.

• Welded Wire Keeper: A specialized mid-shank keeper that locks ElaZtech trailers firmly in place, allowing you to catch dozens of fish on a single bait.

• Perfect Pairings: Optimized to work seamlessly with downsized trailers like the Finesse TRD, TRD CrawZ, or CrusteaZ.

• Weight & Color Options: Available in 1/8 and 3/16 oz weights and a variety of custom forage-mimicking colors like Green Pumpkin, PB&J, and Candy Craw.

Jigs are not all the same and the Bass Patrol Football Jigs are in a class of their own.  They have a japanese style head and each one is hand tied for longevity and durability.  

The premium skirts and Gamakatsu hooks put this little baby up an a very tall pedestal.  The low price of these jigs does not represent the quality and you can loose them without throwing a temper tantrum.  

3/0 Black Nickel Hook

The Keitech Tungsten Mono Spin Jig takes finesse fishing to the next level. This ultra-light tungsten jig is designed for light line and spinning tackle, delivering the compact profile and precise action of a hair jig with the durability and hook-setting power of a premium Katsuichi hook. The tungsten head is 30% smaller and harder than lead, keeping the profile tight while maintaining sensitivity and bottom contact.

Key Features

• Tungsten compound head — 30% smaller and harder than lead
• Compact round design with hand-tied skirt
• SR-40 silicone skirt — ultra-fine cut, ultra-soft, 80 strands
• Mono weed guard — single mono strand, hand glued
• #3 Katsuichi hook — remarkable strength and hook-setting power
• Available weights: 1/16oz and 3/32oz
• 7 color/weight combinations — Green Pumpkin, Dark Green Pumpkin, Bluegill Tiger, Brown Purple (both weights)

Jigs are not all the same and the Bass Patrol Football Jigs are in a class of their own.  They have a japanese style head and each one is hand tied for longevity and durability.  The premium skirts and Gamakatsu hooks put this little baby up an a very tall pedestal.  

The low price of these jigs does not represent the quality and you can loose them without throwing a temper tantrum.  

Master finicky fish and pressured waters with the Z-Man Jack Hammer Stealth Blade Chatterbait, a refined finesse bladed jig designed in collaboration with Elite Series pro Brett Hite and Japanese luremaker EverGreen International. This specialized version of the legendary Jack Hammer features a clear polycarbonate blade that produces a more subtle, high-frequency vibration and reduced flash compared to traditional metal blades.

The StealthBlade is engineered for stealth and efficiency, utilizing a specialized oval split-ring line tie that minimizes surface area to glide through vegetation without snagging. Armed with a lighter-wire Decoy fluorine-coated hook, this bait ensures effortless penetration even on lighter lines, making it the "smartest play" when you need a combination of unpredictable action and visual stealth.

Key Features:

• Clear Polycarbonate Blade: Delivers a unique sound and subdued vibration profile that excels in clear water and heavily pressured fisheries.

• Instant Start-Up Action: Patented head-to-blade connection ensures the bait starts thumping intensely from the very first turn of the reel.

• Decoy Fluorine-Coated Hook: A premium, light-wire hook designed for superior hook-up ratios with less setting effort.

• Low Center of Gravity: The fish-shaped head design allows the bait to track true and skip easily under docks and overhanging cover.

• Hand-Tied Silicone Skirt: Each skirt is meticulously wire-tied with stainless steel to ensure long-lasting durability and a premium look.

• Dual Wire Trailer Keepers: Features two heavy-duty wire keepers to lock your soft plastic trailers firmly in place duri

The Keitech Model I Tungsten Casting Jig (Ver. 2.0) is Keitech's answer to fishing jigs in cover. The head is meticulously designed and tuned to slide through cover without rolling over at rest on the lake bottom — a critical detail for maintaining hook-up position in heavy structure.

The skirt is tied using 150 strands of Keitech's signature SR-40 rubber — softer and lighter than standard silicone, producing a more lifelike, breathing action. The weed guard is hand glued in perfect alignment with the hook for consistent weedless performance.

Key Features

• Tungsten head — tuned to slide through cover without rolling
• 150-strand SR-40 rubber skirt — softer and lighter than standard silicone
• Hand-glued weed guard — perfectly aligned with the hook
• Gamakatsu 3/0 hook
• Available weights: 1/4oz, 3/8oz, 1/2oz
• 20 weight/color combinations — Black Blue, Black, Green Pumpkin Chartreuse, Dark Green Pumpkin PP, Brown Purple, Green Pumpkin PP Blue Flake, Green Pumpkin PP, Green Pumpkin Black (across all weights)