Inshore Casting: Jigs
The Hogy Casting Jig Philosophy
If plugs are the first question you ask the water, casting jigs are the first answer.
Casting jigs deliver. They reach further than plugs, sink faster, punch through wind, and get into the column where fish are actually feeding. When plugs tell you there are fish present but can’t close the deal — too far, too deep, too windy, too picky — jigs are the next move.
In the Hogy System, casting jigs are organized by body profile and material. Each profile imitates a specific forage shape and produces a specific action in the water. There are two families
- Epoxy Jigs (resin body): Translucent, light-for-size, slow-sinking finesse. The technicians
- Metal Jigs (solid metal): Dense, far-casting, wind-punching workhorses. Three profiles — Heavy Minnow, Peanut, and Sand Eel — each with a defined lane.
Between these two families and their profiles, you can match virtually every inshore baitfish shape, cover every realistic casting distance, and fish every speed from surface burn to deep flutter. No redundancy. Each jig exists because no other jig in the system does what it does.
Meet The Lineup:
System-level guide to the Hogy casting jig family — what each profile does, when to reach for it, and how the metals fit together.
"Land Soft. Hover Long. Match The Micro Hatch."
The EPOXY JIG™ Lure
The Epoxy Jig is your precision casting tool for pressured, finicky, or micro-feeding fish. It lands soft, hovers long, refracts light naturally, and buys you the extra seconds in the strike zone that convert follows into eats. It’s the scalpel in the casting jig system — and for albies and striped bass, it’s the lure that unlocks the bites nothing else can get. The 7/8oz is the workhorse. Carry a progression for conditions. Fish it when calm water, micro bait, or spooky fish demand finesse.
“The Imitative Slow Wobbler.”
Peanut Jigs
The Peanut Jig is your finesse metal. When fish are tracking small bait and refusing faster, louder presentations, the Peanut’s flutter-fall and wobble convert followers into eaters. It’s the metal jig that fishes slow without losing its identity. The 1oz is the workhorse. Tie one on when nothing else is getting bit.
"The Wind Beater. The Distance Driver. The Albie Panic Button."
Heavy Minnow Jigs
The Heavy Minnow is your distance and wind jig. Maximum casting range in a micro metal package. Grab it when the Epoxy can’t reach, when the wind shuts down lighter jigs, or when you need a small profile that gets there first. The 3/4oz is the workhorse. The 2oz is the long-range missile. Fish it fast, fish it deep, or jig it on structure — it does everything.
Roll. Rinse. Fish.
Mesh In-Line Jig & Plug Bags
Stop digging through a wet, tangled tackle bag. The Hogy Mesh Roll-Up keeps your go-to jigs, plugs, and washables organized, protected, and ready to fish—then rinses clean and dries fast. Roll it up, drop it in a hatch, stow it in a bag, or park the Small right in a cup holder. Tough, compact, and fully wash-proof.
In The Field Videos:
Open Water Bonito on the Peanut Jig
Using Hogy Epoxy Jig Lures for Big Stripers Keyed In On Herring
Micro-Bait Striper Fishing On Hogy Epoxy Jigs
How to: Cast & Retrieve Hogy Epoxy Jigs for Striped Bass
How To: Fish the Peanut Jig Slow & Low for Finicky Ablies
Albies on the Rocks - Hogy Peanut Jig