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Post by keesvanderlaak on Mar 18, 2011 17:08:14 GMT -4
What is your very first Rapala?
I remember that I got a F-5 in green minnow from a friend.
I used to use inline spinners only.
When I caught my first fish on it I have gone to the tackleshop and I still remember buying a Husky jerk 11 CLN and a J-9 Hot Tiger.
This J-9 I have fished completely to trash. I ended up using it without the tailpiece.
So how about you guys?
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Post by bulldog21 on Mar 18, 2011 17:33:40 GMT -4
SR-9 CW.
Caught quite a few bass when I was about 8-10.
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Post by qbert on Mar 18, 2011 20:04:04 GMT -4
Fat Rap 5 Perch.Not sure if it was my very first, but it was the first I caught multiple bass with and the one that got me hooked on Rapala. I actually still have it.
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Post by jaketomberlin on Mar 18, 2011 21:27:28 GMT -4
I think the very first Rapala lure I ever had in one of my tackle boxes was a DD Fat Rap and it was my dads but I stuck it in my little tackle box cause I wanted a tackle box full of lures like my dad. It took up alot of space, which was great, cause I only had a handful of lures. LOL
I remember when I first started getting into river fishing the first Rapala I ever had real success on were the original floaters, 5,7, and sometimes 9 in rainbow trout and brown trout. I bought so many of those things I had like 20 original floaters and eventually lost them all. I don't know why but I thought the trout patterns would work to actually catch trout.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Mar 19, 2011 5:56:07 GMT -4
my dad got me one for my 8th birthday it was a f-9 in silver i was so happy my birthday is in oct. so i put it on my dresser all winter and just looked at it.then spring came so my dad and i loaded the boat up and went fishing for day.so we got all set up and on the lake about day light and put no my f-9 in silver and tossed it go thier and on the first cast i got a 4.5 lbs. bass and i photo on my night stand to this day.and now almost 30 years later i am still collecting and fishing the rapala my total rapala's to this day is 1500 total fishing and the collection.
john.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Oct 22, 2011 22:06:27 GMT -4
COME ON GUY'S AND GIRLS PLEASE US ABOUT YOUR FIST RAPALA I AM SURE THIER ARE MORE THEN 4 OF US
RIGHT
JOHN
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Post by nathenpd on Oct 22, 2011 22:39:20 GMT -4
Mine was a DT-10 Shad that I bought along with a few other storm lures when I first started fishing. The funny thing is that I don't think I ever caught anything with it. The area where I was fishing was too shallow. The first rapala that I ever caught something with was a J-7 in Firetiger.
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Post by jmcfish10101973 on Oct 22, 2011 22:58:07 GMT -4
DID YOU CATCH CATCH ANYTHING WITH IT AND PLEASE US THE STORY BEHIDE IT AND POST POHOT'S JOHN |
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Post by swampfootnc on Oct 23, 2011 1:04:11 GMT -4
I always leaned on the JSR-4's in any color in the early days, then started gaining confidence... My fishing pal turned me on to braided-line and a local golf course pond from which he had an almost 9-pound fish on the wall already!!! We were going fishing early & drinking late, anticipating sunrise... Out of the blue, an old friend stopped by I hadn't seen for a year... I was awake, tying on my arsenal & he mentioned he had an old tackle-box in his truck... Curious of course, I had to look... Behold, an "original-wobbler-lipstick" still in the box with a $3.45 price-tag!!! After some bartering I soon had it tied on... I went on to catch probably over 80 largemouths on that same lure, that year & still my biggest bass till this point... Looks like it was hit by a belt-sander!!! Retired it, for now... It will always be my crown-jewel... Now I own about 550 between the collection & the soldiers... Forever on the hunt... Balsa rules!!!
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Post by swampfootnc on Oct 23, 2011 1:14:48 GMT -4
Just a side-note, the Flat-Rap, in any size or color is in my opinion, the best lure going... On a 3-way trolling set-up, suspend-a-strips added or just casting... You can't fish it wrong... Twitch it or burn it, everything eats it!!! Instant classic...
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Post by happyshad on Oct 23, 2011 12:54:05 GMT -4
F-7 Perch - and it was so long ago - it had the gold belly! Caught my first "artificial bait" walleye on it too! Funny thing is - I just found one in a tackle shop this summer - it was almost as exciting as buying the first one................almost!  |
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Post by fireman1979 on Oct 23, 2011 13:57:23 GMT -4
F-11 S, and I caught a very big bass and pike on it the first time
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Post by bacon on Oct 23, 2011 18:28:10 GMT -4
ha, not only do i remember my first, i remember why and how.
i was at the dentist, must have been like 10 or so, was reading outdoor life, it was an article about floating rapalas and how a guy had a hot lure, a f13 FT, and it lost its lip, he thought it was ruined, but kept fishing it, and found a new way to fish it, can kept catching fish. after the dentist i almost demanded my mother take me to the Shopko next door and i went in and found a F13 FT1 and bought it. I still have it, its nearly 20yo now, its marred with rust marks and rotting hooks, and i swear i have never caught anything on it. LOL. i have contemplated tearing the lip off, sometimes out of spite, but have not. someday, maybe, it will finally do its thing, but im not holding my breath.
bacon
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