I'll be honest, I was planning on doing some research as it seems you already have. I'm new to the forum and tackle making in general. I've painted cranks for about a year now and got hooked (pun) on catching my personal best on something I made. I tend to loose a lot of jigs and figured making them may be another fun practice. I've seen this type of jig being sold and thought it might give the most stable vertical presentation without being a traditional shaky head (gotta have the skirt). I also reasoned that a larger trailer slid up the hook on a stand-up football jig would be temporarily raised to the vertical position before settling instead of simply being scooted across the bottom with a standard football. Thoughts?