Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jigs ~ 5 per Pack

Style: Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jig. Designed for swimming long, slim soft baits.
Weight: 1/8 oz or 3/16 oz
Hook: 5/0 Mustad Ultra Point. Long Shank. Medium/heavy strength. Black nickel finish.
Keeper: Clip-on wire corkscrew (clips into hook eye)
Quantity: 5 per pack with keeper clips

Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jigs comes in two sizes: 1/8 oz and 3/16 oz, both 5/0.

The hook has an extremely low angle eye positioned to shed weeds and debris as the jig swims through cover.

Shown below, Bassdozer Wisconsin Jigs (top) and Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jigs (bottom) are made with the same 5/0 Mustad Ultra Point long shank hook. This is a medium/heavy strength hook. Many big bass, including a few over ten pounds have been caught by customers on these jigs, so they can land big fish when fought properly on medium to medium/heavy baitcasting or spinning gear - but note this is not a heavy flipping hook for heavy tackle.

Bassdozer Wisconsin Jigs and Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jigs are made using the same 5/0 Mustad hook.

Two Jigs are Better than One

Bassdozer Wisconsin Jigs and Shakey Swim Jigs incorporate the same model and size (5/0) Mustad UltraPoint hook.

The difference between the two jig styles is:

The Wisconsin Jig is typically used with a skirt and a soft plastic trailer bait. The Wisconsin jig (with skirt and trailer) makes a bulky presentation. The Wisconsin jig also works great with just a hula grub or single tail grub body.
The Shakey Swim Jig is designed for swimming long, slim soft baits (with no skirt) to entice fish that pass up or don't want the bulkier, skirted Wisconsin jig. The Shakey Swim Jig, using the same hook, makes a finesse worm presentation.

The Bassdozer Wisconsin Jig (top) is typically a bulky package with a weedguard, skirt and trailer.

The Bassdozer Shakey Swim Jig (bottom) is typically for long, slim soft baits.

How to Use This "One-Two" Approach

Use the skirted Wisconsin jigs with trailer baits in thick, shallow cover. Follow up any missed strikes on the Wisconsin jig by throwing back with the Shakey Swim Jig. Also, use the Shakey Swim Jig on open flats, in mid-water and on deeper structure. It's that simple to catch many more fish by using both jig styles together rather than using either one alone.

So you may go down a bank swimming the Wisconsin jig, and whenever you miss a fish, or whenever you want to slow down and deadstick a worm, you basically have a second presentation you can make using the Shakey Swim Jig.

Another way to think of it is to use the Wisconsin Jig in cover - and to use the Shakey Swim Jig in open areas where there's little of no cover.

Many anglers are unfamiliar with this "one-two" approach of switching between two jogs as you go down a shoreline. No one really uses a Wisconsin jig and a companion Shakey Swim Jig in concert as two parts of a combined presentation. Read on, however, and you may discover it makes a lot of sense - and lands a lot more fish!

As you go down a stretch of fish-holding water, use the skirted Wisconsin swimming jig in shallow, thick cover. Anytime you miss a strike on the Wisconsin swimming jig, toss back in on the fish with the shakey swimming jig.

Also, any time you get away from shallow, thick cover and move into relatively open flats or deeper structure, where fish may be more wary or in open water, that's the domain of the shakey swimming jig.

So you may probe shallow, thick cover with the Wisconsin swimming jig and you can prospect more open flats, you can fish mid-water and deeper structure with the Shakey Swim Jig - and you'll catch more fish with this double-barreled approach than with either one alone.

Recommended Gear

Since the same hook is used, the same grade gear can be used too. This strong wire hook matches well with 10 to 16 lb test mono, fluoro or braided line. Many big bass, including several over ten pounds have been caught by customers on these jigs, so they can land big fish when fought properly on medium to medium/heavy baitcasting or spinning gear - but note this is not a heavy flipping hook for heavy tackle or heavy braided line.

You may use medium to medium/heavy spinning or baitcasting with the Wisconsin jig, and the same gear will work as well with the Shakey Swim Jig too. A good medium to medium/heavy spinning rod goes best with the Shakey Swim Jig - but, based on the identical hook, they really are comparable in terms of the rod, reel, line for either.

Best of all, you'll catch many more fish by using the two jigs at once (on different rods) rather than using either jig by itself. Even if you have only one rod however, you will still catch more fish by first going through an area with the Wisconsin jig, and consider that as the "power" half of your presentation. Then, tie on the Shakey Swim jig, circle back and refish the same area more slowly with a more finesse approach. Revisit anywhere you had seen a fish, caught a fish or missed a strike. In this way, you will catch more fish on the second pass with the Shakey Swim Jig - and basically they are the same lure concept, same hook, same rod, reel, line for both, except a more subtle finesse presentation (Shakey Swim Jig) versus a bulkier power presentation (Wisconsin jig).

Rigging Methods

5/0 with Yamamoto 5" Pro Senko (9P series) and 5-3/4" Kut Tail (7C series)

5/0 with Yamamoto 4" Senko (9S series) and 4" Swim Senko.

Adjust the way you rig a bait, to make the hook more or less weedless and snagless depending on the thickness of the cover.

Exposed. For open water or light cover
Tex-exposed. For moderate cover.
Texas rigged. For heavy cover.

Don't screw the bait down too tightly too close to the jig head. There are more than enough turns on the screw wire so that just a few turns will attach a soft bait more securely than most any other means of attachment including glue. So don't screw the bait on too tightly. In fact, try to "suspend" the bait relatively set back from the jig head on the wire coil.