Heddon ZARA GOSSA

[airborne_angler]

Anyone ever heard of this lure? Can anyone shed light on this lure? They are Triangular in shape,jointed have a rattle chamber inside and about 4 inches in length. They appear to be a crank bait of some sort. No lip or bill though. Could these possibly be shallow diving lures? Can anyone shed light on this lure?

[Raul]

Got two of those gathering dust in the dishonarably discharged from duty box along with other completely useless lures like a couple of Heddon 's Cousin II, never caught even a cold with them.

[Craw]

It's a jerkbait. The bait enables you to create a "walk the dog" effect underwater. They look pretty cool when you do it but I never caught a single fish with one. A pretty neat little idea someone had way back when but I'm guessing that not a lot of research and development went into it. Cutting edge jerkbaits of today like Lucky Craft's Pointer and Rapala's X-Rap will do the job much better and are PROVEN fish catchers.

[GAMEOVER]

Those are now antiques, I think itd be a challenge and a pray to catch something with those.

[flippin4it.]

          I have one of them in firetiger......... Junk lure. It has caught more fishermen than fish.

[Infidel.]

These baits came out back when Slug-o's became all the craze.  It was supposed to be the hard bait version of a soft stick bait.  I wouldn't say it is a great bait but it does have good action to it when worked properly.  It is not supposed to be fished like a hard jerk bait.  I have caught a few on the chrome and black one.  

[RoLo]

The "Zaragossa Minnow" is one of the oldest fishing lures in existence.

It was introduced in 1922 by James Heddon and Sons. The original Zaragoosa Minnow was a hand-painted wooden plug.

It was named as a tribute to the hookers that sashayed in walk-the-dog fashion, down Zaragossa Street, Pensacola, Florida.

Incidentally, don't rush to Zaragossa St, because the stroll aint' what she used to be ;D

Roger

[rocknfish9001]

You can still buy new zara gossas. They look pretty cool. I even have a heddon cousin II. Thats a weird looking lure.

[aa4as]

I dont know how people don't love this lure. If they were still made, I would buy dozens. Caught a nice bass hustle yesterday,  on one I bought on Ebay 

[softwateronly]

In my short time posting here, this is the record!

 

scott

[Scott F]

Replying to a post made almost exactly 18 years ago!  As a matter of fact, I have at least 4 Zara Gossas in 2 sizes I believe. I used to do well on pike with them. The pike used to tear up my Sluggos and these are a hard body version. 

1 hour ago, aa4as said:

I dont know how people don't love this lure. If they were still made, I would buy dozens. Caught a nice bass hustle yesterday,  on one I bought on Ebay 

If you need more I’ll sell you what I have.

[MAN]

On 10/30/2006 at 4:29 PM, Raul said:

Got two of those gathering dust in the dishonarably discharged from duty box along with other completely useless lures like a couple of Heddon 's Cousin II, never caught even a cold with them.

Let me know if you would like to sell them instead of letting them collect dust!