GEAR
PRODUCT REVIEW
PERFECTION LURES SURE HOOK-UP SHAKY HEAD
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PHOTOs BY maTT Pace
By Matt Williams
Lw Tour pro david
dudley had several
goals in mind when
he set out to design a
shaky head he was willing
to associate his name with.
Ultimately, it had to main-
tain a stand-up posture,
navigate easily through all
sorts of tricky cover, pro-
vide solid hook-ups and,
more importantly, keep the
fish pinned. while few
things are perfect in this
world, what he came up
with for Perfection Lures
turned out to be pretty
darned close.
First Impression
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dudley’s shaky head is
clearly constructed to per-
form a balancing act. The
football-shaped head is
molded with a flat spot on
the bottom to give it some
stability as the bait trav-
erses a lake floor, but
what makes it unique are
two thin titanium wires
that protrude at outward
angles from the base of
protect the knot and
reduce fouling. a spike
keeper is made from a rigid
aBs plastic.
In Action
ACTUAL SIZE
the head. Their purpose is
to provide additional sup-
port to keep the jighead
standing erect so it is
more visible and easier
for the fish to inhale. The
wires spring back to
shape without bending
and are outfitted with
small rubber tips to help
prevent fish from feeling
the wires and spitting the
bait prematurely.
The jighead is built
around a needlepoint 4/0
mustad hook with a vertical
90-degree line tie that is
slightly recessed to help
i played around with the
shaky head for the better
part of two months and
was very impressed by the
hook-up/landing percent-
age as well as the head’s
weedless nature. mostly i
rigged it with Zoom Trick
worms or Finesse worms
and Yamamoto senkos and
caught close to 100 bass up
to 4 pounds on the same
jighead (most fish hooked
solidly in the roof of the
mouth) before one of the
titanium legs snapped off
at the head. even then, the
jighead went right back to
catching fish.
There isn’t much rock in
the east Texas lake where i
did most of the field-test-
ing, but there is plenty of
brush, stumps, docks and
vegetation – mainly hydrilla
and lotus pads. i threw the
shaky head into some pret-
ty gnarly stuff at times,
hung up rarely and broke
off once using 12-pound-
test braid with an 8-pound-
test fluorocarbon leader.
Final Thoughts
i’m hesitant to say the
hook-up and landing per-
centages were significant-
ly better than with any
other shaky head i’ve
thrown, but they were
way better than some.
equally impressive were
the bait’s ability to slide
up and over wood and
through scattered vegeta-
tion with minimal hangs-
ups and the performance
of the spike keeper at
holding plastics in place.
The jighead is versatile in
that it can be hopped,
dragged or shaken in
place to give your favorite
finesse worm, soft jerk-
bait, craw, lizard or tube a
reliable stand-up action
that a lot of other shaky
heads can’t.
FLWFISHING.COM I MAY-JUNE 2018