Trout magnet weight info

[gillchaser999]

I’ve been in rut for awhile , only fishing my hand tied jigs and my next trip out I’m planning on fishing some trout magnets .
I remember they cast farther than my handtied jigs and.
So I thought I’d get my gram scale out and weigh a few .


The short trout magnet jigheads average .71 grams which is about 1/40 of an ounce . Right about in the middle between a 1/64 and a 1/32 . They weigh about the same as my 4.6mm tungsten bead jigs . The biggest ones I tie .
Most of my tungsten bead jigs are tied using a 4mm bead that weigh around .58g .
I Weighed the longer hooked trout magnet heads that come in the panfish kits and was surprised they only weigh .51 ounce . Still a little heavier than 1/64 ounce which is .44g . But less than the regular short hooked TM heads .
I was hoping the longer hooked ones would be heavier or at least as much as the shorter hooked ones ones .
With the longer hooks , I don’t have to shorten the TM bodies . The hook rides between the wings or legs of the TM .
Guess I’ll stick with the shorter hooked ones. And continue to trim a ring or two off the front of the TM body .

BTW : The 1/32 Crappie Magnet shad dart heads weigh over a gram.