Zara Spook

And as I expected, it's impressive as to how old these bait styles are.

You know, the Zara Spook, the original walking bait, is well over 100 years old.

The Popper, over 100 years old.

The Plopper, everybody thinks the Whopper Plopper was the first? No.

Can't believe the Devil's Horse didn't pick up some votes.

Can't believe the Pop R didn't pick up more votes.

I get Zara Spook's way up there.

My gosh, how many bass has that thing caught?

That's where these roving schools of fish will come up, and you'll see them.

They're busting shad and going crazy in top waters like the Zara Spook or the Buzzbait, deadly, because you can cover a lot of water in a hurry.

I like the

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Well, I remember my grandfather and my dad looking in their tackle boxes for lures and all the little bright and shiny sparkly things in there.

And the 52M Mirror Lure was the first lure I can remember other than the original Zaragoza, which is the forerunner of the Zara Spook.

And I still have Zaragozas.

They're like 100 years old, 80 years old.

Yep.

Let's remember the, the, the Zara Spook was introduced in the 19-teens.

Yes.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

He says 'cause when western, uh, when they started going back east, before Western Bass/US Bass expanded, um, they, Hines and Tauber and all those guys were coming back and fishing the central pro-ams, and, you know, whatever other tournaments there were.

And Hines was in the boat with Charlie Campbell and learned how to fish the Zara Spook.

Oh, wow.

But my analogy, when I'm trying to do it, is like...

Like if you work a walking bait, like a Zara Spook style bait, it's kind of the same theory, right? It's like tight slack, tight slack to get it to do that.

And it's the same kind of theory with that.

So I think that super juice is not overpowering it with ratio, is finding that middle of the road ratio.

And it was just a really cool chance for you guys to hear how he did it, the story, the bait he brought back to us for Grandpa's tackle box.

You know, the Hedon Zara spook was gone.

Nobody had ever heard of it anymore.

And Greg won the tournament throwing the Hedon Zara spook, fishing way away from the boat, long cast.

And it's a mainstay, man.

We've all got it tied on these days.

And so you are single handedly.

I give you all the credit in the world.

I experienced it firsthand this summer.

So Zara Spooks, we all love a Zara Spook.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Our listeners love Zara Spooks.

Mm-hmm.

Right? So the Super Spook, the original size is four and a half inches, right?

Splash, splash, splash.

I'm getting mad, I'm throwing a temper tantrum at the casting deck.