nice looking jig shoemoo i tie on nothing but a collored head and sell around 60000 a year have never had 1 come apart am in 106 stores here in mississippi gonna be in crappiworld magazine for the second year in a row and ship all over the united states seems like everyone ties on a colarless jig so why not be different slater has been tieng the same jig everyone else ties for 50 years and they are good jigs just my opinion i can tie the jig on a head without a colar but every body and there grandmother is doing that i can take anybodys jig and catch a fish on it so it gos back to what u have confadince in if u dont have confadince in your jig it aint gonna catch fish be original and to each his own have yet to see a crappie with a scale weighing jigs before he thumps them