i spent about $30 at thier place. they had blade baits for $2 each of all weights so i got a half dozen of those. then i got a mixed assortment of thier jigheads from 3/8oz all the way down to 1/32oz, i think i got 3 bags of each size.
whats nice about thier jigs, is the hooks are strong, but they have enough flex in them to straighten out on a snag.
Oh i got some of thier Tennessee Rig things also, thinking they might work out very well for white bass in a few weeks! at the very least, they will be turned into catfish rigs with a 3-bait buffet per rod! HA HA

i have a question. What would you use an 1/4 ounce or bigger jig head for?

Bass, walleyes, sauger. For fishing bottom in deeper water.

I throw a swimbait on a head that large. A rigging or single.

I have used jigheads as large as 3 oz before below tailraces targeting large striper. Allows you to cast far and gets your bait down during extremely fast water.

My now deceased aunt loved to fish. She used old spark plugs to cast far from shore. Of course she never figured out how to make them into a jighead. I wonder if that could be patented.

yeah buddy, ive used all kinds of things to use as sinkers. Old bolts, big washers, tire weights work pretty good.
when your hard up for cash (or realize that your gonna lose almost everything catfishing from the bank at old hickory, you quickly become a sinker engineer)
i was fishing the steps at Rockland Park at Old Hickory dam one afternoon with my brother for walleyes and saugers. just casting leadheads and tails, it was getting prime time for the evening bite when we got there, current was perfect, water clarity was perfect. in the first 5 minutes we were there, i lost 10 leadheads on 10 casts, after i snapped the 10th one off and preparing to throw the rod into the water, i calmly reeled up the slack line, grabbed what was left of my leadheads and headed toward the truck mumbling obscenities and how the river should just dry the "bleep" up! LOL. it was just not a good night!

You sir are a dedicated fisherman.
Sometimes I think those fishing trips were better than the ones where we have everything we can buy.

I should probably know who said this, but i dont, but the quote goes:
Neccessity is the mother of invention.

They havent all been "poor poor me" situations. alot of them were totally self inflicted. like not having an anchor in the boat and needing to shuffle to shore to grab a rock and rig up a "hail mary" knot and hope it holds.
or my personal favorite, giving the old Danforth Anchor with 3ft of heavy galvanized chain a heave ho in the river and realizing ya never tied the rope to the boat, $40 anchor, $30 chain and about $30 of high quality rope sitting at the bottom of the Detroit River right in front of the Joe Louis Area! LOL

Oh the books we could write as sportsman about our mis-haps and close encounters of the idiotic kind!