Heddon Fishing Lures: Divers, Wigglers, Gamefisher, & SOS

By Dr. Michael Echols

An odd lot of midget and baby minnows which seem to have been put together by a committee or suffered a genetic mishap.

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1. In red-white-red, an L-rig, single hook Deep-O-Diver in the correct cardboard Intro box.
2. In frog scale, an L-rig, two hook baby Crab Wiggler in the correct down leaping Bass box.
3. In natural crab, an L-rig, two hook baby Crab Wiggler, with box tag, in the correct down leaping Bass box.
4. A set of L-rig and two piece Wigglers in green crackleback, rare black, and frog.

Gamefishers

Heddon SOS

The Heddon injured minnow or Swims On Side minnow. First introduced in 1927:

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A new in the box SOS, marked 169R, R is the designation for old natural scale. The hardware is L-rig.

First is an L-rig golden shiner scale 160 SOS.

Middle we see an example of an L-rig 170.

Bottom a new in the box 170 in two piece flap hardware.