Fishing Wobbleheads 101

[cchobot]

This is a real common question we get at the shop. When and how to fish a wobblehead. How do you fish a wobblehead and what sort of experiences have you had?

Pt. Jude Wobbleheads

[Yaker]

The Point Jude Wobblehead is one of my favorites to use on the Kayak. I like to use it with a 14" Hogy and go with slow troll near rocky areas. I find it be effective in places where eels are used but it is a lot easier than dealing with slimy eels.

[wrikerjr]

deadly when fished through broken jetties. The weight will keep it in the strikezone and the length with a good hogy or sluggo makes for a bigger attractant than a bucktail.

[swanny]

Hi Chris. Like yaker said a slow troll behind a kayak is deadly. A plastic that is very supple, like a hogy or fishstix is preferred as it follows the natural motion imparted by the head. My personal preference is a 10" fishstix. Unreal action. I feel a sluggo is not quite supple enough it almost fights the natural serpentine action of the head. The wobble head doesn't drop as fast as a bucktail / jighead of equal weight. There are lots of applications where the wobble head shines. You can cast it and slowly retrieve it giving a slow sexy wiggle along the bottom of a sandy beach or bounce it along the rocks on a rocky shoreline, switching retrieves between twitching it and a more steady one. Speed up the retrieve and the bait will run for the surface but let it drop and then slow retrieve to keep it lower in the water column. Use a snap and change between the two attachments points. The foremost attachment will give a more shallow presentation but impart more of a slow sexy wiggle while the rear attachment point causes a tighter wobble but the bait dives deeper. Where this bait shines is when you want to get a plastic down a little be able to retrieve slowly and still have a ton of action. It gives plastic baits an action no jighead can match and a profile no other artificial can imitate. My only complaint is that the plastics I use with it, like all plastics, are not bluefish proof so I primarily use it in spring and late fall. While alot of fish fall for this thing, my most memorable day was in spring 2006 when I took a handful of keepers and 2 fish over 30# on the same day with a large wobble and a pink fishstix. It's definately a unique bait with features no other bait matches. Also on a different note, These things hold up unbelievably well. They hold a point very well and respond great to a good sharpening. A few guys in the kayak community have been asking me to bug Joe to make a jighead from this hook since people are very impressed with it. If you bury this hook there is no way even the biggest girls are gonna open that hook up.