Menhaden Glow Widowmaker Jig
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AnglerCo Widowmaker Jig – Menhaden Glow Slow Pitch Jig
You asked for Menhaden Glow. We’re bringing it to the Widowmaker.
Meet the Menhaden Glow Widowmaker Jig, combining our #1 recommended baitfish pattern with the wide flutter and hang time of the Widowmaker.
Menhaden. Bunker. Peanut bunker. Pogy. Pogies. The name changes depending on where you fish, but one thing doesn’t: predators eat them everywhere.
The Menhaden Glow finish combines a natural baitfish profile with added glow for visibility at depth, while the Widowmaker’s balanced body creates a wide, wounded-baitfish flutter designed to hang in the strike zone.
Same killer baitfish pattern. Completely different action.
Menhaden Glow Meets the Widowmaker
The Rizz is built around its signature S-shaped body, darting movement, and broken-bait action. The Widowmaker brings a different presentation with a wide fluttering fall and extended hang time.
That gives anglers another way to fish Menhaden Glow when predators want a slower, wounded baitfish presentation.
Whether your local forage is called menhaden, bunker, peanut bunker, or pogies, this is a baitfish profile predators already recognize.
Why It Gets Crushed
- Our #1 Recommended Baitfish Pattern: The Menhaden Glow pattern brings one of our most versatile forage profiles to the Widowmaker.
- Wide Fluttering Fall: Balanced weighting creates a slow, wide flutter that keeps the jig hanging in the strike zone.
- Natural + Glow: Realistic menhaden profile with added visibility for deep water, low light, and dirty conditions.
- Wounded-Baitfish Action: Wobbles, slides, flashes, and falls like an injured baitfish separating from the school.
- Built for Offshore Abuse: Heavy-duty hardware and reinforced assist systems designed for hard strikes and serious fish.
- Ready to Fish: Pre-rigged with assist hooks so you can tie on, drop, and get to work.
Built to Take Hits
- Heavy-Duty Hook System: Built for snapper, grouper, amberjack, tuna, kingfish, cobia, and other aggressive predators.
- Hard-Coated Finish: Designed to stand up to teeth, structure, and repeated offshore abuse.
- Flutter-Tuned Profile: Designed for reefs, wrecks, ledges, bait schools, and offshore structure.
Product Specs
- Weights: 30g, 70g, 100g, 150g, 200g, 300g, 400g, 500g & 600g
- Color: Menhaden Glow
- Forage Imitation: Menhaden / Bunker / Peanut Bunker / Pogy / Pogies
- Action: Wide fluttering fall with wounded-baitfish movement
- Technique: Slow pitch and flutter-style jigging
- Rigging: Tail-mounted for aggressive head-first darting action
- 30g Setup: Single assist hook pre-rigged
- 70g–300g Setup: Dual assist hooks pre-rigged and ready to fish
- Hardware: Heavy-duty hardware with reinforced assist system
Where Menhaden Glow Shines
- Fishing around menhaden and bunker schools
- Reefs, wrecks, ledges, and offshore structure
- Deep water
- Low-light mornings and evenings
- Night fishing
- Dirty or stained water
- Anywhere predators are keyed in on baitfish
Best Species
- Snapper
- Grouper
- Amberjack
- Tuna
- Kingfish
- Cobia
- Striped Bass
- Other aggressive inshore and offshore predators
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between the Widowmaker and Rizz Jig?
Both can be fished using slow pitch techniques, but they offer different presentations. The Widowmaker is built around a wide fluttering fall and extended hang time, while the Rizz uses its signature S-shaped body to produce more aggressive darting, sliding, and broken-bait movement.
If the fish are keyed in on Menhaden Glow, having both gives you two completely different ways to show them the same baitfish pattern.
Is the Widowmaker a true slow pitch jig?
Yes. The Widowmaker is weighted and balanced specifically for slow pitch and flutter-style jigging, with controlled hang time and a wide fall action.
What makes Menhaden Glow effective?
Menhaden are an important forage fish across a huge range of saltwater fisheries. Depending on the region, they’re also called bunker, peanut bunker, pogy, or pogies.
Menhaden Glow combines that familiar natural baitfish profile with added glow to help predators track the jig as available light decreases with depth or visibility drops.
How should I rig it?
Tie directly to the tail end of the jig to create the intended head-first movement and wounded-baitfish flutter on the fall.
What size should I fish?
A good starting point under normal conditions is roughly 1 gram of jig weight per foot of water:
- 30g = around 30 feet
- 70g = around 70 feet
- 100g = around 100 feet
- 150g = around 150 feet
- 200g = around 200 feet
- 300g = around 300 feet
- 400g = around 300+ feet
- 500g = around 300+ feet
- 600g = around 300+ feet
This is only a starting point. Current, wind, drift, line diameter, and fishing style all affect how much weight you need. If you’re having trouble staying vertical or maintaining control of the jig, move up in weight.
How do I work the Widowmaker?
Drop the jig to your target depth, then use smooth upward rod lifts before lowering the rod tip back toward the water.
As the rod tip drops, introduce slight slack and let the Widowmaker work. Its balanced profile will flutter, slide, and hang naturally on the fall like a wounded baitfish.
Watch the fall. Many strikes happen while the jig is fluttering and hanging in the strike zone.
Does it come with hooks?
Yes. The 30g Widowmaker comes pre-rigged with a single assist hook. Sizes 70g–300g come pre-rigged with dual assist hooks and are ready to fish.
Need replacements or extras? AnglerCo Assist Pro Jig Hooks work with the entire AnglerCo jig lineup as well as jigs from other brands.
Same Bait. Different Weapon.
Menhaden. Bunker. Peanut bunker. Pogy. Pogies.
Whatever they're called in your fishery, predators know them as food.
The Menhaden Glow Widowmaker takes our #1 recommended baitfish pattern and puts it on a jig built to flutter, hang, and get eaten on the fall.
Menhaden Glow Rizz first. Menhaden Glow Widowmaker next.