New SIMPLE WEEDLESS RIG for Deep Water Fishing [3 ft to 100 ft]
- By: Luke Simonds
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If you’ve ever fished around docks, bridges, or rock piles, you know how frustrating snags can be.
Since redfish, seatrout, snook, flounder, and pretty much all other ambush predators tend to feed near structure, it’s crucial for us to be able to rig our soft plastics weedless in many cases.
The new jighead was designed specifically to help you as a saltwater angler to be able to easily convert your favorite soft plastic lures into weedless fish catching machines.
Here’s a quick video that shows how it works and how to select the right size jighead for the lure you’re using for each depth range:
Click Here To Get These Weedless Round Eye Jigheads
📖 Not sure which size to use? Grab our cheat sheet for the perfect rigging setup! → Lure Rigging Guide
Conclusion
If you want to be able to consistently catch inshore slams throughout the year, you’ll need to be able to rig your soft plastics weedless for fishing high structure zones without getting snagged.
This rig gives you all the benefits of a jighead (getting down to the fish fast, solid hookups) while staying completely weedless. That means I can skip it under docks, bounce it around jetties, and work it near pilings without worrying about the snags.
And the best part? The hookup ratio is surprisingly good—when a fish bites, the hook is exposed, giving you a solid chance at landing redfish, snook, flounder, and trout.
I’ve been using this rig more and more when fishing deeper structure, and it flat-out works. If you’re tired of losing lures and want to catch more fish without the hassle, give this setup a shot.
🔥 Grab your Weedless Round Eye Jigheads here → Weedless Round Eye Jighead
Questions?
Please do not hesitate to post any questions you may have in the Comments feed below… I always enjoy hearing from you, and I’ll gladly respond as quickly as I can.
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What weight would you recommend for 100ft?
I’d go with the 2oz for 100 ft of water.
Thanks Luke. Weedless setups have improved my fishing tremendously!
Can you use any type of a circle hook in a weedless application?
Circle hooks do not typically work well with lures… they are best for live/cut bait applications.
Great info. Thanks, Luke.
I think a real man can do it with a football jig head. They are my favorite
Great video Luke. Thanks.
Thanks Joe!
Thanks for the video and info Luke. Is there an application you would choose a twistlock swimbait hook over the round eye?
Yes, I use the weighted hooks when fishing in less than 2.5 ft of water. And I go to jigheads like the round eyes when in need of getting lures deeper than 2.5 ft.
Thanks Luke
Our pleasure Craig!
Thanks, I used them on Tuesday on the Manatee River. I had tough time finding the fish but when I did, it was on! The weedless football jigs were what they were hitting. With both, Prawn Jr., A small mullet colored paddletail and, a Tweaker.
Glad to see that you got into a fun bite!
In my experience and opinion, weedless hooks works great, but for grass flats only. If you fish under (around) docks or anywhere where is the rocks or some structures on the bottom… not so much. Hook tip rarely snug the rock… it’s pretty much always the whole lure it self… which snug between rocks.. or brunches… so weedless doesn’t help so much.
Thanks for sharing your feedback. Yes, there are some structure zones that is shockingly good at causing lures to get snagged even if they are rigged weedless. But even in those situations where there are jagged rocks that lures can often get wedged into, the odds are always lower when there isn’t an exposed hook point… even it it doens’t snagged the rock, the hook point will snag the lines of other lures that were already broken off and are stuck on the bottom.