Choosing The Right Weight And Hook Size For Your Jig Head

[Gerty]

Hey AFO

I'm wanting to update my jig head collection but I'm wanting to avoid any unnecessary buys. I mostly fish in the brisbane area and I just want to have a good selection of weight and hook sizes for the appropriate conditions and fish species.

If you had to choose like 3-5 different jig heads for the below 3 species What weight and hook size would you go for.

Bream

Flathead 

Bass

Thanks in advance

[The Mad Hughesy]

your bass and flathead can take some fairly large sized hooks

depends on your location too. chasing bream against pontoons youd want a very light jig head so when your plastic sinks, if floats ever so slowly past the bream. 1/24th weight or lighter

if you wanted to get cheeky, you could buy various sized hooks, and attach split shot sinkers to them to suit your location.

[bassmandan]

A while back I bought a bream/finesse jig head pack from BCF, I'm pretty sure they are still available! with bream the lighter you can go the better!! and they come in a small box that will fit into the bottom of your tackle box!

for flathead anywhere from 1/4 - 3/8 you want to be on the bottom!!! hook size anywhere from a 2/0-4/0

As for bass, i use a worm offset style of hook with a small ball sinker rigged weedless, as most times chasing bass in some pretty snaggy country and the conventional jig heads seem to get snagged a lot!! hook size ranges from 1/0 - 3/0 (tt also do the snakeheads style of jig heads this is much the same as the above mentioned weedless rig)

Good luck @Gerty

Cheers and tightlines!