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Post by 90collector on Mar 28, 2011 13:26:27 GMT -4
Has anyone ever been fishing and caught a rapala? I know my cousin caught an F8 in perch down below my house while useing a spinnerbait over shallow rocks.
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Post by browntownutah on Mar 28, 2011 14:47:05 GMT -4
Yes I have- Once I was fishing Lower Twin Lakes in Ca. I was trolling an f-18 rainbow when I thought I got a good bite!! - i fought the fish but quickly realized it was a snag- i pulled on it as hard as I could when all the sudden it popped free- when it came up i had my f-18 plus another f-18 Gold and Orange- it looked like it had been there snagged for a decade or so...
I took it home custom painted it up and ran it- it has a better more wide wobble than the newer f18's- for a few trips I continued to catch fish with it-until I snagged and lost it out in Utah- hopefully one day it will happen to someone else!!
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Post by roeroeyerboat on Mar 28, 2011 15:09:32 GMT -4
Never reeled in a rapala yet but had plenty of other lures when pulling in other folks line and snags. It always seems to be spinners i end up with though.
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Post by jaketomberlin on Mar 28, 2011 22:55:22 GMT -4
Well no....... I can't say I have.
But I've got another fish story. I was fishing a Jr. Bass tournament throwing a Carolina Rig. I made a long cast, but my reel got a little fuzzed up.... so I was picking it out and the line broke deep down in the spool.
Well... I found where it broke and started pulling it in (because I didn't wanna lose my rig) I had a long way to go, and about halfway through me dragging my rig back I started thinking "I wonder what the hell I'm gonna do if a fish bites right now" sure enough.... about ten seconds later... I felt a "tick" and my rig being pulled away from me. So I did what anybody would do and wrapped the line around my hand and JERKED LIKE A SUM BEACH. hahaha. Five minutes later I had a 3 pound largemouth in the boat.
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Post by 90collector on Mar 28, 2011 23:16:35 GMT -4
Well no....... I can't say I have. But I've got another fish story. I was fishing a Jr. Bass tournament throwing a Carolina Rig. I made a long cast, but my reel got a little fuzzed up.... so I was picking it out and the line broke deep down in the spool. Well... I found where it broke and started pulling it in (because I didn't wanna lose my rig) I had a long way to go, and about halfway through me dragging my rig back I started thinking "I wonder what the hell I'm gonna do if a fish bites right now" sure enough.... about ten seconds later... I felt a "tick" and my rig being pulled away from me. So I did what anybody would do and wrapped the line around my hand and JERKED LIKE A SUM BEACH. hahaha. Five minutes later I had a 3 pound largemouth in the boat. I bet that felt good on the hand haha weirdest thing I've did is went smimming for a fishing pole after a fish pulled it into the river. I saved the $20 panfish combo but ruined a $60 phone that was in my pocket |
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Post by jaketomberlin on Mar 28, 2011 23:23:56 GMT -4
hahahaha. I laughed out loud when I read that. Yeah I think I ended up with some cuts after that. The funny thing was we had been dragging Carolina rigs for like 30 minutes on that spot and hadn't caught a thing until I hand-lined that one in.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Mar 29, 2011 5:44:55 GMT -4
hooked up with a whole tackle box once when trolling in a river for walleye between my dad and i we got it up to the boat and got it in the nest as soon as the line broke
john.
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Post by 90collector on Mar 29, 2011 6:48:39 GMT -4
Anything good in the tackle box?
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Post by keesvanderlaak on Mar 29, 2011 11:48:46 GMT -4
A policeman on a bicycle found a rapala shallow running shadrap in hot tiger. brandnew in the gras.
he seen me casting for pike, came up to me to give me this lure.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Mar 29, 2011 17:31:39 GMT -4
yes full to lid and still mostly good
john
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Post by omigosh on Mar 29, 2011 21:08:40 GMT -4
I cast a little too close to a dock piling and after about ten minutes of tugging and pulling I dragged up a big clumb of oysters. Lodged in the oysters was a rattlin redhead. I chipped away the oysters and barnacles, changed out the rusty hooks and the next trip out I decided to use it. I promptly threw it right into an oyster bed and lost it.
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Post by 90collector on Mar 29, 2011 22:25:49 GMT -4
I cast a little too close to a dock piling and after about ten minutes of tugging and pulling I dragged up a big clumb of oysters. Lodged in the oysters was a rattlin redhead. I chipped away the oysters and barnacles, changed out the rusty hooks and the next trip out I decided to use it. I promptly threw it right into an oyster bed and lost it. Sounds like something i would do lol |
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Post by sqhertz on Mar 29, 2011 22:44:19 GMT -4
got a skitter pop in frog when i overcast into a small patch of brush when i was up in NC. I thre it in the box and only fished it a couple times.
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Post by bacon on Mar 29, 2011 23:16:56 GMT -4
i once caught a clam (freshwater) on a CDSR-5 RH, one cast after catching a good carp on it. had to use a hammer to get my hooks back, bad luck for the clam i guess. i once caught a husky jerk 12 tsd, i saw it floating in to shore were i was fishing, it would have gotten to me eventually, but i didnt want to wait, so i casted to it and reeled it in. thats the only lure i have ever caught, other then just wads of line and a hook.
bacon
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Post by happyshad on Mar 30, 2011 7:16:50 GMT -4
I have actually caught a few - the one that sticks out in my mind though: I caught a "double rig" (two lures tied with one behind the other with @ three feet of line separating the two) in a river - one was an F-11 Red Clown. At the time - I had no idea what a Red Clown was - I just thought it was a custom painted Clown.
So I tied it on and caught some fish on it. Got back to the cabin - showed my buddies and one of them said "holy $#!* - that's a Red Clown!
Needless to say - I have been buying every one of them I come across - well - at least until the prices went crazy!
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Post by purplehog44 on Mar 30, 2011 16:26:51 GMT -4
I have never caught a lure, but have caught a couple of old trotlines.
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Post by 90collector on Mar 30, 2011 23:32:27 GMT -4
Well what does a red clown even look like? lol
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Post by happyshad on Mar 31, 2011 22:50:40 GMT -4
You'll know when you see one - he's usually holding a red beer! LOL JK
on a serious note - It looks just like a clown - only with a red back instead of yellow char.
My buddy just bought 4 of them, pulled them out of the boxes and mixed them into his "general population" - he at least kept the boxes! He did that same thing with an SB F-9 - WOW!
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Post by nathanha on Apr 1, 2011 8:23:14 GMT -4
No such luck for me. The best thing I find is a bobber with a rusty hook and split shot. But you dont want to leave that in the lake. on a side note I have never lost a bait either. No snags or bit offs. But now that I say this I'm sure I will have my share this season.
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Post by qbert on Apr 1, 2011 13:08:53 GMT -4
on a side note I have never lost a bait either. No snags or bit offs. But now that I say this I'm sure I will have my share this season. Boy do I wish I could say that!! It makes me sick to think about all the lures I have lost. And I don't let them go easy either, I've been swimming, up in trees, gone home to get the cordless saw, and spent hours "lure fishing". I have some old poppers I found that I use to try to catch my lures back. I tie on one to a rod with some strong braid and start casting at my lures. So I guess I have caught a Rapala instead of a fish a bunch of times. Only problem is that they were all my Rapalas to begin with! |
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Post by 90collector on Apr 1, 2011 13:23:47 GMT -4
on a side note I have never lost a bait either. No snags or bit offs. But now that I say this I'm sure I will have my share this season. Boy do I wish I could say that!! It makes me sick to think about all the lures I have lost. And I don't let them go easy either, I've been swimming, up in trees, gone home to get the cordless saw, and spent hours "lure fishing". I have some old poppers I found that I use to try to catch my lures back. I tie on one to a rod with some strong braid and start casting at my lures. So I guess I have caught a Rapala instead of a fish a bunch of times. Only problem is that they were all my Rapalas to begin with! Thats why I fish with 50lb braid  I hardly ever lose a rapala, and usually i can break branches off or straighten the hooks out to the point where they come out
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Post by riverrat on Jun 3, 2011 13:15:17 GMT -4
I catch a few every year. Last year I lost a custom painted #11 floater to a walleye and someone caught the fish and lure two days later.
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Post by qbert on Jun 3, 2011 22:58:02 GMT -4
I catch a few every year. Last year I lost a custom painted #11 floater to a walleye and someone caught the fish and lure two days later. That's good to hear because a big ol' bass just stole my DT FAT 3 custom!! I know where I'll be fishing in two days!! Me and that fish have some issues to work out!! I thought I was mad last week when he just tossed it back at me but now I'm furious!! |
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Post by riverrat on Jun 5, 2011 20:18:58 GMT -4
I catch a few every year. Last year I lost a custom painted #11 floater to a walleye and someone caught the fish and lure two days later. That's good to hear because a big ol' bass just stole my DT FAT 3 custom!! I know where I'll be fishing in two days!! Me and that fish have some issues to work out!! I thought I was mad last week when he just tossed it back at me but now I'm furious!! I've had a few walleye do that to me as well. Get them to the surface just in time to watch em throw that #12 Husky Jerk right back at me.  |
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Post by fireman1979 on Jun 6, 2011 16:07:47 GMT -4
I don't know if this counts... Well, one time I whas fishing with my fishmate and we used the skitter pop to fish with. When he cast the lure into the water he found out that he didn't tied the knot well, so the lure went to cast away without the line. So I had to "pop" my skitter into the water to catch his lure (and it wasn't his, but mine). After a few times I got the lure back and he tied it again to his line. But what did he do again? You can guess... Same thing again. So another time no catching fish, but the lure. Some peope hahaha  |
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Post by unipsychofishman on Feb 12, 2012 0:37:14 GMT -4
I have caught and found many lures over the past few years. I have found one lake in particular which must have a large population of wealthy, careless fishermen because in the course on two days fishing I found five lures; three in the water, one just sitting on shore, and one in a tree within easy reach of the ground. One of these was even a new Clacking rap with sureset hooks!
After ice-out on certain lakes and after the weeds have deteriorated I often find several lures an outing that I can snag on calm days.
The most memorable lure I have caught would be when I hooked up with a small pike. While I was fighting it in it stopped abruptly and when I finally got it in I found that the pike had bitten onto a stick which had a lure imbedded in it!
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Post by pikeye on Feb 14, 2012 11:19:47 GMT -4
no rapalas, but a lot of mepps spinners
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Post by walter on Mar 2, 2012 12:48:44 GMT -4
cdj 9 prt. i only changed the hooks and still have it somewhere. btw, 2 months before i got an identic one from my brother.
i also "caught" some spinners. a friend of mine caught a ssr 9 ft, but he lost it later the same day.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Mar 5, 2012 7:43:32 GMT -4
i was duck hunting once and shot a duck with a f-5 in silver hooked in his back
john
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Post by jpkawalski on Mar 5, 2012 19:44:07 GMT -4
Last spring I cast out an F-5 silver, before I shut my bail, the line started to scream out. I shut the bail, my line tightened and I realized I just snagged a duck out of a low flying flock. snap!!!! gone. Please send my lure back!!! |
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