Junky Rapala's are always good test products for improvisations.  These old lures gets new life.

Slipperybob, Not a bad idea have you tried any?? I have some old broken ones that i'm going to rig up them and try it out...Have a good day THANKS JOHN

Bob you may have just started something here. Some day you just might rich and famous. The question is have you caught anything on em yet?

Harry

These are old lures that I lugged around for years. Have seen their shares of fishing and have seen their shares of just sitting in the tackle box. The Jointed Floating Rap has some semi rusty original hooks. The mods have been done last year for these two models but there have been others from before.  Photos are just that I've gotten a little digital camera over the summer for fishing photo opportunity.

Well the Jointed Floating Rap will always catch Pikes. This particualer one keeping the wire for the tail hasn't been fully tested for fish catching ability. It's the J11 size and it is intended to give bass a different look, but hasn't really been a priority pick. There are just plenty of other lures that will work better for bass. I'm also not so fond of how the J11dives. They don't dive much nor can they wake subsurface much either. So the plastics helps for those situation of just mostly twitching lure on the surface. Kind of thinking that maybe next spring I'll give it a whirl for White bass and see how that goes. It does sit kind of funny with the broken tail section basically straight down from behind. White bass are a lot more aggressive so it'll be really interesting to see how this will play out for me.

I have another thought for the J13 size, but I will probably just add a wire as a plastic keeper on the tail. Essentially making it more like tipping with plastics. I like how the J13's have a better dive angle. Kind of hoping that these can be used more for Walleyes instead of just Pikes.

The Jointed Shad Rap, hasn't been fished for any particular species yet. I was rigging it for Walleye fishing in mind and has gone through several other mods. I've tossed it a few times and it has the feeling of running true. Still a plain jig and curly tail will probably outfish it for Walleyes, but I like to crank hard baits so much more. Hoping that the added plastics will solicit more strikes. So that's why I've settle for just a Siwash trailer hook on the lure and a small thin wire treble on the belly of the lure. They do have a tendency to hang up on the bottom, so this will help recovering the lure from hang ups.

There's a Topic in Members Tips about lure tweaking that several folks have added to. Consider adding this stuff to it so it doesn't get lost  

Added to 'tweaking' thread.

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