A fellow by the name of Dennis Hunt came by one day to pick up some Puddle Jumpers. Dennis does a lot of crappie fishing. He asked me if I knew how to put a weed guard on a jig head cheap and easy. Cheap and easy sounded good to me, so I had him show me how to do them.
Go somewhere like a flower shop, Walmart or Hobby Lobby. You need some soft, easy-to-bend, wire.
The picture below shows a 1/16 oz. jig with about 3-4 inches of wire. If you cut the wire a little long it will be easier to work with. This would work on about any size jig. Big jigs might need a little stiffer wire.
Wrap the wire around keeper a couple of turns (2) then up and around the eye. (3) Bring the wire back to the hook point and (4) cut off to correct length.
You can still hang up but the weed guard helps a lot. The wire doesn’t seem to bother the action and bends easily when a fish bites. I make up some before I go fishing, so I won’t have to stop and make one when the fish are biting fast and furious on a Puddle Jumper.