Share-A-Bait/RapalaNation Rapala World Tour

[Fishooked]

I saw this on the Bassholes.com, it is their 'share-a-bait' program which is pretty cool, and I think we're going to do a variation of - check this out -

www.thebassholes.com/e107_plugins/smf/smf.php?topic=9290.0

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Now, I think what WE might do is something similar. And this is open to discussion. I'm thinking of calling it the RapalaNation World Tour, or something corny like that.

Anyway, I send out 3 different Rapala baits to 3 different parts of the world. The member keeps it until they have caught a fish with it, then sends it on to the next member on the list.

I'd be curious to see how many and what kinds of find 3 different Rapalas will catch in different parts of the world

[walleye270]

That sounds like a pretty sweet idea Ted. The only issue would be the ICE issue in the northern states and countries in the winter time. The lures would just have to be someplace that doesn't freeze up. I'm up for it, sounds like fun.

[Fishooked]

Sept 26, 2009 23:26:57 GMT -4 walleye270 said:

That sounds like a pretty sweet idea Ted. The only issue would be the ICE issue in the northern states and countries in the winter time. The lures would just have to be someplace that doesn't freeze up. I'm up for it, sounds like fun.

Maybe one should be a jigging Shad Rap

[fishing_in_israel]

Sounds good to me. I'm sure the fish in Israeli waters would love to meet a Rapala that's done a bit of traveling - Israeli's love tourists

Nigel

[muskiehunter]

Sounds pretty cool

What would we do if the lure gets lost ie snag,huge fish snaps your line,etc

Like Matt mentioned most of the lakes up here will be froze over in a month or so.Maybe send to the Southern members first

Anyway I think we should give it a try

[bacon]

i did something like this with a geocaching travelbug, if you dont know what that is, dont worry, not important, if you do, let me know, we enjoy geocaching. anyway, i put two rapalas in a rapala modular tackle box and added intructions. its goal is to travel the country and to catch 10 different species of fish, use either or both lures, after catching your desired fish, return it to the box and place in another cache. its in Ohio now, hope it gets below the ice belt before winter sets in. so far, there have been no fish caught, but not all cachers are fishers. rule is that if you lose the lure, you must replace it with you favorite rapala lure. i think we could all pull this off here.
bacon

2010 year of the shad rap??