X-Rap

[Shango]

I was watching some fishing shows in the past few weeks and I keep seeing the x-rap. I have never used one and was just wondering if anyone has? If so what colors have you used. I might have to make a stop to mills this week.

[Central Bassman]

I have used them a few times for smallies, They work great and really do catch fish. I like the white or the gold shiner colors. They are a great lure and will catch largemouth also. I would pick some up if you fish a lake that has smallmouth in it.

[SledNeck]

The silver shad large jointed X-rap is a pike killer. NO BSin.

[2iceman]

They also work very well for walleye!

[RiverBassGuy]

trollin for walleyes or twitchin them on the rocks for smallies is deadly. For eyes I like the silver or perch, for smallies I like the pink or the ghost color! We used them on bass opener last year for smallies and they worked well because you can work them slow. They suspend so you can twitch it and let it rest.

[Flaco651]

Definately worth having in the arsenal. I got to using them last fall and plan on picking up a couple more this season.

[Fishin=Easy]

Probably caught just as many walleyes as bass for me last year.

yellow and red or white silver color.

[RK]

Hiya -

Very versatile jerkbaits. What's neat about them is you can make them subtle wobbling baits or wild, erratic walk the dog baits depending on how hard you twitch them. Do a steady pull with a tight line, then a pause for a subtle approach in cold water, or throw some slack into the line and pop the rod down hard to make the thing walk the dog underwater.

Most X-raps seem to suspend pretty well out of the box, but you have to tune one every so often if you get one that sits nose down or nose up. Just take a Storm SuspendDot or half a Dot and balance it out. They're a lot more consistent than Husky jerk-baits in this regard though.

I don't use them for LMB that much but they're one of my favorites for smallies, especially in cold water. You can let them hang for up to a minute, which can make cold water smallmouth come unglued sometimes. They're also very good for suspended smallies - work them fast and erratic and you can call up fish from a long ways down.

I use them mainly as search baits, and always, always throw them on superline (I use 10# Fireline) on a spinning rod. You can cast them a mile and still work them without stretch in the line like you'd get using mono - you have far better control over how you're working the bait. Plus you can feel soft hits much better. especially in cold water, fish just come up and grab the things. All you feel is a 'tic' and you'd probably never feel it at all with mono on a long cast.

cheers,

Rob Kimm

[Fever]

Unfortunately they are good baits for pike as well. I lost four of these last year while targeting cold front bass. I would pause for several seconds letting the bait suspend and wham... Nothing there. That is no fun when your talking 6-7 bucks a pop. I did have success using silver/black and hot metal colors on Mille lacs for smallies. I also caught a few respectable largies (18-19 inchers) out of Waconia using the perch color.

[river rat316]

I must be the only person in the world that can't stand xraps, I have caught a couple nice eyes on them, but never bass, all of the ones I have bought suspended nose down really bad, they took some tuning, and they were also pretty fragile, broke 2 off the trolling motor head and 3 off of underwater rocks (bill breaks). IMHO Pointers at twice the price, are worth 3 times more than a Xrap. I am looking forward to trying the Xrap shad, and Xrap subwalk though, hopefully they turn out better than the Xrap!

[TonkaBass]

I love the X-Rap. I have never had an issue with them breaking...yet. Awesome early season bait.

[CPRJoe]

Just bought some. Saw a terrific smallmouth outting on a show this winter. Can't wait to slaughter some smallies on em!

[Dooley87]

these are by far my favorite baits ever made period! my grandpa actually calls me mr x rap sometimes cause i can get that thing to work more erratically than anyone in the boat and i catch 2-3 times the fish. the key is to jerk_ the bait in, don't reel them in, only reel in the slack line in between jerks_ and when you do jerk_ the bait do it as if you are setting the hook every time cause it will make that thing just dance under the water, if your arm ain't tired after a few spots you aint jerkin_ it hard enough. the smallies and pike just go wild over these baits, don't get the salt water ones though, i feel that the dressed treble hook adds a lot and the salt water ones don't have em'

[cjac]

From RK...

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What's neat about them is you can make them subtle wobbling baits or wild, erratic walk the dog baits depending on how hard you twitch them.

That's what I love about the Rapala Skitter Props, if it's a nice day with warmer surface temps the Skitter is a hoot. Couple years ago on my Bday no less, I caught a combination of 8 pike and bass (6 bass 2 pike, all nice fish) from noon to 1:00 on a Skitter prop, with a hook replacement delay due to a fiesty pike no less. That's one every 8.5 minutes....

After that I was in the stern....guiding. Fun stuff, point is to respond and adjust to what the action dictates.