A project two and a half years in the making, Daiwa Bait Junkie Jigheads are finally here. Designed in collaboration between Daiwa Australia's product development team, long-time Daiwa angler Kris Hickson and field tested, these jigheads offer a unique feature set which elevates performance for an often overlooked category in fishing.

It all starts with the hook, and Bait Junkie Jigheads are built around quality BKK hooks in combination with Daiwa's SaqSas hook coating. This super-slippery, Teflon-like coating increases the penetrating power of the hook point, providing a superior hook-up ratio. Available with a 2X strong BKK heavy wire, Bait Junkie Jigheads come in a variety of weights and sizes to cover a wide range of salt and freshwater applications.

The totally unique bait keeper is a standout feature, a design which evolved over 18 months and more than 25 different prototypes. The goal was to create a jighead bait keeper that performed exceptionally well with Daiwa's stretchy ELASTOMAX material from their Bait Junkie soft plastics, effectively eliminating the annoying occurrence of your plastic being pulled down over the keeper and balling up into a twisted mess.

The head design of the Bait Junkie Jighead is a mostly cylinder-shaped concept with a flat back for optimal clean rigging. It also features a flattened 'chin' which, when used in combination with Daiwa's buoyant ELASTOMAX material, offers a 'tail up' posture when your bait comes to rest on the bottom. This ensures excellent presentation, even in very hard bottom situations where a bullet shape head might not perform as well.

The features extend to the packaging, which has been carefully designed to offer both convenience and a long-term storage solution. Bait Junkie Jigheads come in a resealable zip-lock bag, which is great for keeping brand-new jigheads free from wet tackle boxes where rust can ruin hooks before they have ever been used. The sticker, which indicates weight and size, is also easily removable and can be re-attached to a tackle box or storage tray for easy identification when you are carrying a box full of jigheads in your boat or bag.