Northland Fishing Tackle’s New Weedless Wacky Jig
Eugene L. 03.10.23
My biggest go-to rig for worming in middle school was wacky rigging, the lake down the street? Wacky rig. Small farm pond? Wacky rig. Reservoir I’ve never fished before? Wacky Rig. It just works everywhere, forget the ned rig. My tough day on the water solver is the wacky rig. It simply just catches fish and is as simple as you can get for rigging up. Just tie on a hook and run it through the middle of the soft plastic worm. But it did have one downside, it fishes really slow and snags about everything it can. We quickly learned that nail weights were the answer but it wasn’t an elegant answer. The new Weedless Wacky Jig is that answer.
Northland Fishing Tackle is bringing out its newest jighead as that elegant answer for modernizing wacky rigs. The new Weedless Wacky Jig is a sleek, built-in weighted jig-head to get your bait to where the fish are fast, with no adjustments needed. This is a godsend especially when it comes to extra buoyant soft plastics, perfect for covering all depths and conditions, the new Northland Weedless Wacky Jig comes in three weights, 1/16-, 1/8-, and a middle-ground 3/16-ounce option. All three sizes feature a #2 sticky-sharp, premium Gamakatsu hook.
Now the weight and slow sinking situation has been taken care of there if the other issue of wacky rigs, snagging everything. To solve this common problem Northland Tackle designed the Elite Series Weedless Wacky Jig with two easily bendable, but nigh unbreakable, titanium wire weed guards for penetrating into that fish-filled cover. And for making sure the bass stays on the hook, the Northland Tackle Weedless Wacky Jig design comes with a wide hook gap and straight eye shank to those toads stay on the hook and can be cranked out of the cover.
Northland Fishing Tackle’s New Weedless Wacky Jig
In terms of colors, most experienced bass sticks rely on two worm jig-head colors to do serious damage—and that’s what Northland offers: Black and Green Pumpkin. The new Weedless Wacky Jigs come two per card with an MSRP of $4.99.
Northland Tackle Marketing Manager, Charlie Peterson, explains: “First, the Weedless Wacky Jig comes in all the weights bass anglers need to cover a lot of weed-choked depths, shallow to deep. And the dual titanium weed-guard bends nicely and slithers through the salad, no matter what kind of vegetation you’re fishing. Its design is part finesse, part power. From the dead, shallow vegetation of early-season through weeds just emerging—and deeper in the cabbage as the season progresses, it’s an absolute fish-catcher. Depending on where bass are cruising, it’ll will work along the inside or outside weedline.”
