Jaxon Tanami jig heads

Overview

The Jaxon Tanami Silver Jig Heads are a range of weighted lead jig heads designed for rigging soft-plastic lures, offering one of the broadest size and weight spreads available from Jaxon's Tanami family.

Each head is built around a silver-finished, chemically sharpened hook mounted to a round lead head, with Jaxon's own soft-lure retention system fitted behind the head. This consists of a single retaining ring combined with a small barb, designed specifically to hold soft-plastic bodies securely in place during casting and retrieval.

The range runs from hook size 6 up to 6/0, with jig head weights spanning from 1g right through to 60g depending on the hook size selected. Packs are supplied as 10 heads for sizes 6 through 4/0, while the larger 5/0 and 6/0 combinations can be supplied in packs of 10 or 5 depending on the weight.

Perfect For

With such a wide spread of hook sizes and weights, Tanami Silver heads suit a correspondingly wide range of UK lure fishing applications. Lighter heads in sizes 6 to 1/0 are well suited to small soft plastics and LRF-style presentations, while 2/0 to 3/0 heads handle small-to-medium shads and sandeel imitations.

For shore lure fishing, these jig heads are a practical option for bass on lighter and medium weights, pollack around deeper rock marks using heavier heads to work shads and sandeels, and wrasse where soft-plastic presentations are needed, though a weedless pattern may suit extremely snaggy ground better. Smaller sizes also cover mackerel on small soft-plastic jigs.

The heavier 28g-60g heads in sizes 4/0 to 6/0 extend the range into boat lure fishing, allowing soft plastics to be worked considerably deeper where tide and depth demand extra weight.

Technical Insight

The round lead head and long-shank hook give a simple, dependable jig profile, while the chemically sharpened point is intended to maintain a fine, penetrating edge without the bulk of a conventionally sharpened hook.

Behind the head, the retaining ring and barb combination is a genuinely practical piece of design: rather than relying on the barb alone, the ring helps anchor the soft plastic's head in place, reducing the lure sliding down the hook shank during casting or after repeated strikes.

Because Jaxon offers such a wide matrix of hook size and weight combinations, anglers can fine-tune presentation far more precisely than with a typical small retail selection, matching head weight to depth, current and lure size rather than compromising with a generic jig head.