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The new heavyweight jig was created to plop through matted vegetation and flip into thick wood cover, but the Omega Custom Tackle pro staff has been using it for dragging over rocks and probing through deep grass as well. FLW touring pro Craig Dowling has employed the new jig for flipping grass at Toledo Bend and dragging through deep brush piles at various lakes on the tournament trail.

Dowling ranks the jig’s pointed head and crossline tie as the key features of the 1-ounce Pro-Mega Jig. “With that head design the jig falls straight down as opposed to a lot of the other heavier jigs that angle off to the side,” says Dowling. The jig’s straight descent makes it easier for Dowling to keep the lure close to weed lines and the trunks of standing timber in deep-water situations. It also allows him to keep his jig in the strike zone longer when flipping into weed pockets or small openings in thick bushes. The Pro-Mega has become my go-to bait when probing deep brush piles,” reveals Dowling. “This jig seems to come through just about anything I put it in.”