Rapala Flat Rap

[Old plug]

I was in Wally World today looking for a new long nose pliers for fishing since mine have seemed to disappeared. Someone had taken a Flat Rap to look at I suppose and dropped it right under where the pliers were. That is the only reason I noticed it. It has been several years since I have bought anything in the way of hard baits. But this Flat Rap had a shape that really drew my attention. Not so much as a bass bait as a bait for large crappie. I have caught my share of large crappie in the early crappie spawning period on a suspending 5 " Rogue. But knowing how even big crappie have a preference for small lures some of the time I sometimes I felt the Rogue was to big and that did not help my confidence in the lure.

The size 8 Flat Rap really does cross that line between small and large and the minnow shape is more improved. Box says it rises slow and has a hard flash. Both sound like additional good points. I am going to try to go down on the dock today and play with it a bit. I imagine there will be some modification with tiny stick on weight and such to get it to do what I want it to do for me,but I bet this lure is going do a good job on those big crappie.

[RSBreth]

I've caught Crappies and every other kind of sunfish, plus trout, walleyes, and all three black bass species on the smaller Flat Rap. I haven't messed around with trying to get it to suspend though, as the ones I've used have a faster rise. I really like that I can cast it much further than the original floating Rapala of the same size.

[Old plug]

I just got done playing with my new Flat Rap. It said on the box rises slowly. It sure did nit look like anything i would describe as slowly. It took whole of those tiny lead stripe to make it rise slowly. I think in colder water it will rise even slower. I was very happy though with the rolling flash it gave on a small jerk. I do believe that is one if the best wounded minnow actions I have seen. I intend to use it Primarily as a suspending lure.