The present invention comprises a fishing hook, that further comprises an eye, a weighted jighead movably attached to said eye, a shank extending from said eye comprising a bend, a barb located near an end of said shank which terminates in a point at the end of said shank, and a gap which defines the bend as a distance between the shank and the point. According to one aspect of the present invention, a bait can be attached to said weighted jighead and attached to said shank via the barb and the point, and a movement of the bait when attached to said weighted jighead and attached to said shank via the barb and the point mimics a natural caridoid escape reaction of an arthropod.
