I love Rapala Jigging Raps & try to collect as many colors as I can as a tackle hoarder – However it seems that I generally fish only a few colors across the ice belt & even fewer on my home waters in Ohio. This made me wonder is anyone else cares to share your top catching colors.
I love anything in Chart ,Clown or Perch & really started catching on the UV colors when larva tipped at dush for Panfish
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Like so much tackle, color preference depends on the bite more than anything. Color preference in fish can change in the blink of an eye and can change many times during any given day. I think just having a mess of color and even size options is prudent planning to go catch fish but may be a bit of a challenge to take it all along. All baits have “hot” colors that seem to get fish consistently whenever they’re tied on.
The uv colors are beginning to take hold. The uv products used to enhance a baits ability to be seen in even murky water or in thin light have come a long ways. In companion to the uv enhancement, don’t overlook glow enhancement. I don’t mean fully glow baits, I’m referring to using glow paint or pigment in a clear coat to add small dots of glow at random places along the lures. Not many, just enough so each side has a couple to get noticed. The plastic fin is a great place to add a dot of glow on each corner. The head end as well. And check out glow pigments that glow in color, not a paint that glows the eerie green regardless of paint color. Red glow, blue glow, and purple glow are all very effective glow colors to consider.
Hey Tom How are things out east? What brands of glow paint do you like? I have read some glow better than others but no specifics.
I order all of my glow pigments from http://www.glowinc.com
Chrome Perch is my go-to. I typically use it first.
Hot Glow Perch, Chrome Blue, Chrome Gold, UV Green, UV Pink are all useful. I know some swear by the UV Green.
Otherwise, chrome on sunny days and UV/Glow on dark days or low-light conditions is a good rule of thumb.
Jigging Raps certainly catch fish through the ice, but in my opinion there are more effective lures out there. (Chubby Darters, Salmo Zippers, and Ripping Raps to name a few)
It looks like you have a nice variety of raps, if I were you I’d try a few of the others if you don’t already have some.
Jigging Raps certainly catch fish through the ice, but in my opinion there are more effective lures out there. (Chubby Darters, Salmo Zippers, and Ripping Raps to name a few)
It looks like you have a nice variety of raps, if I were you I’d try a few of the others if you don’t already have some.
Depends where you fish. I catch 3 times as many fish with jigging raps. I fish a lot of current and those get down way faster. I got a pile of the rippin raps and darters and I’ve maybe caught a half dozen fish? They just don’t work for me but I will never give up trying them…..just not my first option.
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Jigging Raps certainly catch fish through the ice, but in my opinion there are more effective lures out there. (Chubby Darters, Salmo Zippers, and Ripping Raps to name a few)It looks like you have a nice variety of raps, if I were you I’d try a few of the others if you don’t already have some.
Depends where you fish. I catch 3 times as many fish with jigging raps. I fish a lot of current and those get down way faster. I got a pile of the rippin raps and darters and I’ve maybe caught a half dozen fish? They just don’t work for me but I will never give up trying them…..just not my first option.
Ice fishing?? “A lot of Current??” Yikes
If you are ice fishing a river. There is current.
I fish the Mississippi quite a bit and jigging raps are pretty much my go to for that exact reason. They seem to be able to still have their designed action, as opposed to rippin raps that just seem to get washed out by the current. I also use them a ton on Poygan here in Wisconsin. They produce more fish there for me than any other.
Color has so many variables. Body of water and weather conditions are obviously the two massive contributors. On Sakakawea, there are a number of different colors that seem to work much better than others. There is a ton of smelt in the lake, so they tend to chase white and variations of purple. I painted a ton of them in reef runners “purple demon” color. On smaller bodies of water, I’ve done well with UV Green. At the end of the day, I hang my hat on contrast rather than color unless you’re in gin-clear lakes.
I got a few uv rippin raps and took the uv light to them and not any glow. Really disappointed
UV enhanced baits or lures do not “glow” in the dark if that’s what you’re expecting. The UV enhancement allows the surface to collect hyper amounts of uv from available sunlight or moonlight [reflected solar light]…..anything daylight. If you’re looking for a lure to glow after “charging” it with a light, uv baits won’t get it for you. UV baits will “glow” or get much brighter under a black light but as soon as the bait is taken away from the light its just a plain old lure again unless there’s some natural light handy to make it work.
Also, just because you cannot see uv rays or portions of natural light does not mean that fish cannot see it. Fish are sensitive to the. uv light portion’s of natural light. Humans are not.
UV Green and Chrome perch rise to the top of the box 90% of the time
I have many different colored jigging raps in several different sizes and like everyone else, I have my favorite colors. I’ve caught walleyes on almost every color jigging rap that I have tried, but I usually use chrome perch, chrome/blue, pearl, clown, gold, fluorescent orange/gold and/or chartreuse/white and switch up colors fairly often when I fish. I wonder though if these colors actually the preferred colors of the walleyes or am I catching more fish on these colors because they are the colors I use most often? Many other colors as in my box rarely get used.
I don’t see chrome perch at rapala.com. Discontinued?
Dan, I think Rapala just calls it Perch.
It’s the shinier green and gold one with the sharp black bars on the side.
Thanks for the replies guys.
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