I want to try this head and I will eventually, it is designed to hang horizontally, I have done this with other shapes of jigheads by moving the hook eyelet back some. the other thing is the bevels on the nose, causing a darting motion. I don't have anything like that yet so this intrigues me. But the size 8 eagle claw hook I'm not crazy about, I tried that before and had much better luck with a sickle, on this jig a size 6 would probably work better than an 8 so you'd have enough shank to make a decent chenille body. and the cinnamon body with a blue tail, gonna have to try that one.