Florida Road Trip 2013

[MuskieBait]

They still sell the original chromed metal gotcha, OT. I find you do have to rinse them off well with freshwater though...the metal wire will corrode if you don't rinse them out well...learned that lesson last year...

The freshwater lures mentioned, like Zara Spooks, are not as durable as lures designed for saltwater. Some of them have really poor o-rings that rust easy, poor hooks that rust easy, and I say, with personal experience, that the Zara Spook plastic body is not very puncture proof. My Zara Puppy (smaller version of the Spook) can only sustain three 24-27" barracuda before they started sinking due to punctures to the plastic body (and water leaked in). After a few more barracuda of the same size, the screw eyes were pulled out of the plastic body. The first time it happened, I lost the fish thinking the hook just came out on the fight, until I took a closer look and noticed the hook, o-ring and the screw eye missing. I thought that was just an isolated incident but it happened to all the Zara Puppies I used after. Those fish destroyed 3 Zara Puppies after a 4hr fishing session.

Here's what my Zara Puppy looks like after a few barracuda...I didn't take the hooks off on purpose...those were ripped off by the 'cudas...the three slashes close to the head of the lure punctured through the plastic.





I wish they make wooden Spooks with wire through construction...