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Gotta agree with Timbo.
The ligher jighead will move more on each pop of the cork. It’s just better form to go lighter. I use an 1/8 ounce Death Grip or an 1/16th oz flutter hook.
You shouldn’t throw a jig on spinning tackle anyway. You’ll have way faster and accurate presentations using casting tackle. Yes, it takes more skill and will be a skill to acquire if you don’t have it. You’ll be better off once you do.
That and a 1/4 oz or a 3/8 oz jighead by itself isn’t going to work everywhere you fish. You’d have to retie anyway if you need to go lighter or heavier. For example, you’d throw an 1/8oz jighead against the rocks at a place like the Long Rocks and use a 1/2 oz or 3/4oz or even 1 ounce jighead in a place like Seabrook or The Jump.
Failing to do that is leaving a lot of fish in the water. This is why mentioning tackle used in fishing reports is good because at least myself can notice that and say something. If you’re throwing a 3/8oz jighead in The Jump or Seabrook, or when the tide is really ripping at the Hwy 11 bridge, you may as well be flying a kite.
Whenever someone doesn’t mention tackle in their report, and they had a tough day, I wonder if the issue was really them not finding fish so much as the issue is they weren’t getting good presentations because they were throwing the wrong tackle.
You really want to go light as possible on a jighead because that weight at the eye is basically a lever the fish can unwittingly use to throw the hook. It’s a single hook. On something like the SB150 (topwater lure) that weighs 1.5oz: yes, it’s heavy as all get out, but it also has three giant treble hooks, so exerting leverage on one to pull it out will bury another (or two or three) into flesh.
A further note: use cheap jigheads where you will get snagged and have to break off, i.e. Trestles, rigs, Long Rocks, etc.
