Has anyone on here ever managed to obtain replacement fins for jigging raps? Now that Rapala is using foil-finish instead of actual paint for most of the jigging rap line-up,lost tails are a big problem.
I just counted: I have 32 tail-less jigging raps. Almost all of them have the foil finish. For a few years the ‘Chrome/red face’ was like magic on deep humps in a cisco-forage lake. I kept buying them because it was an effective bait even wthough the lack of quality was evident. That was one of their first foil-finish jigging raps but they don’t seem to have discovered a more durable finish since then.
The finish is pretty damaged on most of my tail-less raps but the bodies are just fine. I’d like to strip and repaint those bodies in colors that have proven good but are no longer made. I just need tails.
An additional problem is that most of the larger fishing lure companies – Normark included – have a “don’t call us,we’ll call you” policy. When they recieve emails like that they just disregard them. There is no phone number for “customer service” because there IS no customer service.
Anyone know where I can get tails?…It’s #5’s,7’s and a few 9’s. Mostly #7.
