Do you fish discontinued Rapalas???

[omigosh]

I was looking through one of my tackle boxes and noticed that I still had a section containing Rapala spoons. I have fished them in the past for trout, & redfish. I'm wondering if I should retire these to the collection? I certainly have plenty of other spoons that I could use. This also made me wonder if I need to look at my other Rapalas in my tackle box and pull any others that have been discontinued? Whadya think??

[rocfish]

Personally I fish all of my Rapalas that I have purchased retail, whether they have since been retired or not. The only non-fished Rapalas I have are the small collection of commemorative Rat-L-Raps I have bought over the years as pure collectibles (the ones painted with promos). I figure with eBay you can almost replace just about any lure you might lose during use.
;D

[eloosecannon]

I certainly do. If I buy it, then it's going in the water. In my opinion, they are meant to be used. Now on the other hand, I do have a few limited editions that I picked up an extra of just to leave it in the box. lol I know, I'm weird.

[rapdom]

imho every rapala must be used .discontinued rapala have no value.even the one from the 60's
to give you a idea take a look at ebay

[fishfingers007]

Aug 23, 2010 2:39:41 GMT -4 rapdom said:

imho every rapala must be used .discontinued rapala have no value.even the one from the 60's
to give you a idea take a look at ebay

i think its whats it worth to you, i pay good money for some lures for the collection thats maybe, proto types, specials or discontinued, because i want them, but the price only goes up if two or more people want them, really depends on the condition of the lure and box, many just are not up to the condition a collector wants,or how many are out there, take me with my countdowns, 1960's i got mint $15 each a rcl 1990's $30, proto
types much more in some cases, but ten years from now maybe the 1960's ones will be in the money, a lot will depend on the next generation of collectors , i do it because i like it, if i lose my job ,at least i wont have to buy lures, and maybe get a little money to ,but i will use them if i have doubles.

[Fishooked]

Aug 23, 2010 2:39:41 GMT -4 rapdom said:

imho every rapala must be used .discontinued rapala have no value.even the one from the 60's
to give you a idea take a look at ebay

If its in my tackle box, it gets fished, but to say they have no value simply isn't true. Which one from the 60s are you speaking about,

Take Shallow Fat Raps for example. Those are discontinued, and they generally average about $10-$20, even used, sometimes more - which is way more than they ever cost retail at the time.

That is only one example - when you start looking at discontinued colors such as Clown, Silver Blue, Silver Gold, Orange Crawdad - there are a lot of examples where they have a lot of value. Some of that is due to collecting - but I think most if it is because they are just good fish-catching patterns...

[Compre]

So far I don't have any discountinued once since I am only in my first year buying Rapala, but I wouldn't fish them and only collect them as antiques.

[rapdom]

for me a lure that worth 20 to 30$,mean no value.
have a look at heddon,creek chub,pflueger that's the kind of thing that worth money (many times more than 500$)
rapala have simply too much lures in circulation to get a good value

[Fishooked]

Aug 23, 2010 15:27:00 GMT -4 rapdom said:

for me a lure that worth 20 to 30$,mean no value.
have a look at heddon,creek chub,pflueger that's the kind of thing that worth money (many times more than 500$)
rapala have simply too much lures in circulation to get a good value

I hear what you're saying, but the term 'value' is a subjective thing.
Rapala collecting is still relatively new, we all know these lures will never be worth what those lures are today, or probably ever.

But as with anything collectible, the more time that passes, the more scarce or rare certain items become.

In this economy I'm not taking anything worth $20 or $30 as having no value...

[cdj711]

YES, i do!

w.

[bulldog21]

When I do, I try and have at least one of the same model brand new before its sister goes in the water. I mainly fish new style Shad raps, jointed shad raps and X-Raps so I don't usually run into this problem.

-Ryan

[qbert]

I have never had a rapala in clown that hasn't caught me fish. A skitter pop, SSR, or jointed, in clown(all disc.) are with me everytime I fish!