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My favorite bait for trout is rapalas.gold and silver if I can get them. I go up above a set of rapids and cast them out and I let some line out and give the bait little twitches. I'll do that for about 10 min. in one spot then I'll move across the rapids some more and I'll keep doing the same thing. So anyway... how many of the people prefer to use rapals and if you do how do you fish them? Or. Do you prefer something else for trout.
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I use rapalas often but I wouldn’t consider them my “go to” lure. I mostly "twitch" them but use other techniques as well. I'm normally trying to cover a lot of water when I fish with a rapala so I generally make only one or two casts to a spot unless I think it looks fishy. In snaggy areas I normally fish with less expensive lures because if your loosing a lot of rapalas the $$$ adds up quick.
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I use rapalas for trout, especially when trolling with lead core line or spinning tackle. I have used them for many other species as well.
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I use rapalas.countdown/husky jerk/shap raps/floaters

also yo yuri minnows.......

blitzer creek zip lures........

Panther martins

mepps see best

little cleos

flies

Anything that works!
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All hail rooster tails!![sly]
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i use rapala for trout in lakes mostly just a strait retraive i also perfer mepps spinners got my biggest trout to date on one a 27" cutthrout
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I use the countdowns and husky jerks for trout and bass. I mostly jerk and twitch them. I also use smithwick rogues and yozuri pin minnows and one of my newer favorites are the Rebel holographic jerkbaits. They have a brown trout and rainbow trout pattern that they just go crazy for! Give it a try.
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I used to fairly well with rapalas in the waters of Idaho and Utah. I would mostly use black/gold and flourescent orange/gold. I would use the floating ones in the rivers and diving as well as countdowns in the lakes.
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[size 2]I'm a Panther Martin person if I am not fly fishing.... what size/kind of a Rapala do you use?[/size]
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[cool][#804040][size 2]Had never used a rapala for trout. But I do like my Mepps Black Fury for trout. Hey I don't put a sign on my lures saying for bass or what ever ONLY. My philosophy is that if they take the lure they're mine [/size][/#804040][] [#804040][size 2]& guess what!
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when fishing the white river for browns and rainbows i use them,for browns i use the rainbow colored one and,also skullpin colors caught several 15 to 20 pounds on them
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I've had Rapala's in my tackle box since I was knee high to a June Bug. It just doesn't seem like my box is complete without a half dozen or so in there. I've not only caught trout, but bass, small mouth, catfish, perch, crappie and a slew of other species on them. My lure of choice is a broken-back Rapala in trout colors. Fishing deep with a diving plane has provided me with many fond memories, and a few broken lines. Damn, those huge lake trout hit hard in a hundred feet of ice-cold, crystal-clear, sky-blue water.

Of course it's a new adventure on new water when I break out the Rapala's and let go with a mind-numbing cast of 75-ft or so.

I remember reading in a fishing magazine a long, long, long, long, long time ago about how the Rapala got started here in the good, old US of A. A tester came over from Sweden and was fishing Flaming Gorge (Utah side) in the dead of winter (blizzard conditions, driving snow, sub-zero temps). He would cast behind a moving fishing boat, and of course everybody thought he was crazy. But he had the fish to prove the Rapala could catch fish. Lunkers over 30 pounds, all catch and release. The rest is history.

My best memory is salmon fishing out of Monterey, California with a 8" broken-back Rapala with a bunch of guys from work. Everyone else trolled with anchovie, the "normal" and accepted method back then. For every fish the rest of them snagged, I caught, and released except for one, five. Before the trip was over, the Captain was inspecting my lures and writing down names. I especially loved one trip because most of the other fishermen thought it was tradition to stay up all night drinking and show up at the pier in a drunken state. For breakfast -- cold pizza and beer. Before the boat hit the break water, they were chumming over the side. One guy didn't release his vice-grip hold on a stanchion from the time we left till the time we tied up again. I guess my Navy experience in riding out typhoons in the South China Sea finally paid off. I had a ball.
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I USE RAPALAS FOR TROUT I USE BASICALLY THE SAME TECHNIQUE THAT YOU DO.
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I know that Rapalas are considered to be one of the best way to catch the big brown trout in the Namekagon near here. I have more fun fly fishing so I do that, but Rapalas certainly well-known here to work REALLY well, especially at night.
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I use them but end up donating mostly. I think that a bottom bouncer with a leader will fix my problem this year. lessons learned!
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hey

this last summer when i went to montana i fished the little boulder river and caught pretty much all my trout on a fluoresent chartruse and a perch color rapalas

they really went crazy for them. i would just cast up stream and reel with the current
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Also try the Yozuri Twitchin Minnow. It is 3 1/2 inchs long and suspends about three feet down. It throws off a ton of flash and is deadly along riprap or shallow weed beds!
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