Blue Firetigers Exist

[bulldog21]

I got one in today...

[jmcfish10101973]

i do not think so i think these fire tigers are fadded out do to sun light i got a fire tiger in cd-11 that did the same thing but not totally 100% sure.if you leave your rapala's out and exposed to light for along time that will start to fad.

[bulldog21]

I'll have to disagree. I used to think that too though until this one came in.

Here is one too:

picasaweb.google.com/117803013042502682219/Cd7#5504943152403876082

[muskiehunter]

Feb 17, 2011 8:30:10 GMT -4 bulldog21 said:

I'll have to disagree. I used to think that too though until this one came in.

Here is one too:

picasaweb.google.com/117803013042502682219/Cd7#5504943152403876082

This is definitely a blue firetiger Awesome looking lure

[cdj711]

Hi Ryan and John, and others.

yes, i think one is a blue firetiger, seems to be a special, but the fat rap, or RFR is not. sorry to disappoint you.
and why should this be.
please look at the eyes; on the fat rap the eyes are faded yellow too, while the special has the yellow eyes (although the pic is not good enough to really know these have not been re-painted).
well, i dont want to accuse anybody of anything i can not prove, so
i had been planning for a long time to do this experiment, and it seems it is time now to start.

i just have to ask my boss if i can use the UV lamp.

or is somebody out there going to get sun tan regularly?
just take a FT with you and expose it to the UV light.
dont forget to take out of the box and remove the hooks.
otherwise this might be a nice hook up to get girls talking to you.
although they sure will think you are crazy.
but we all knew this already ...

w.

[walleye270]

The eyes look faded yellow in the picture, but I was talking to Ryan, and he said that the eyes were actually white and not faded yellow. I think it is a special blue firetiger. Nice find

[bulldog21]

Yup, I really do think it is blue with white eyes. Either way, it'll look great right next to my green firetiger in my collection.

[jmcfish10101973]

great job ryan i think i just saw a fr-7 in fire tiger gen#2 with a blue back on it this morning on e-bay i will give you the item number so you can look at it thier is alot of three for sell and this one is in the middle great fine talk to you soon john.

[jmcfish10101973]

hi i just got the item number it is 290533185042 and the seller is keithbiglake6 and yes thier is a blue fire tiger in this lot of three it is the middle one in fire tiger gen#2 with red gills and boy dose it look awesome and cool hope this helps great find and very nice score john...

[jmcfish10101973]

after looking thru about 10 pages on e-bay thier are alot blue fire tigers out thier i saw a drfr-7 n.i.b with a blue back,a drfr-5 n.i.b with a blue back and so on.... all have the yellow bills on them boy that would be a cool looking collection to have and start.john...

[Tom]

Feb 17, 2011 7:38:18 GMT -4 jmcfish10101973 said:

i do not think so i think these fire tigers are fadded out do to sun light i got a fire tiger in cd-11 that did the same thing but not totally 100% sure.if you leave your rapala's out and exposed to light for along time that will start to fad.

I'm not sure, it takes a lot to bleach a rapala. In the tackle shop in Spain that i go to, they keep all their rapalas by the window in almost direct mediterranean sunlight, the boxes the lures are in get really bleached because hardly anyone buys the rapalas so the majority of them are old stock (some must be over 10 years old), and yet none of the rapala lures themselves have any colouration defects or show any sign of bleaching. If the blue firetigers are actually standard firetigers bleached by the sun then they must be really old and left outside or atleast in direct sunlight 24/7. In my opinion it is most likely that they are not bleached, and instead they are actually painted that way.

Having said that, if you look at the eyes on the 2 lures, the ones on the blue firetiger do look very pale

[jmcfish10101973]

found more the hj line has some too...