Please bring quality control back yo your Countdown and Husky Jerk lines. About 2/3 of them don't run true anymore. I'm not the only guy I know who says this.
I've been a user of Rapala baits for over 43 years. Rapala's were the first lures I bought as a young kid with my money earned on the family farm after a week's work, $5. I still have and use some of those lures to this day.
Rapala is the first lure brand I learned and bought, over 40 years ago. That lure, and several like it, are still in my tackle box. Rapala is a way of life.
@@ronaldmcdonald3965 : Closer to 50, for me. The most expensive lure in that display case at the hardware store. I can remember spending $1.65 for the privilege of buying one in a flyspeck village. It was my first and best topwater lure, from Day 1. The wounded minnow imitation, where you make it look like a hurt fish trying but failing to swim to the depths. Irresistible to bass. Immune to snagging in rocks. The one lure you'd jump in and get, when any other time, you'd be scared to go in. Rapala courage.
This was really cool! The first fishing lure I ever used was a Rapala Floating Minnow my Dad gave me. That was nearly 30 years ago, and I have enjoyed using them ever since. Have caught many different species and sizes of fish over the years!
I've caught the most of my fish with Rapala pop here in Czech Republic. The fish love it, from small perchs up to medium sized pikes. Only Rapala for me, thanks guys!
As a ten year old I got my first real fishing lure, Rapala, and I’m using 40 years later. I have built up my tackle box with adding solely Rapala lures over the years and I’ve probably got every color and type made. I also still have the original box and papers for each lure. Those cardboard boxes must be another invention by Rapala because they never wear out. This is a company that checks every lure before it leaves the facility. They have a sense of quality and dedication. They know that is something that Business Think-tanks and brainstorming ideas about what well make money isn’t going to work. They make a high quality product and have always been very inexpensive in the store. Balsa wood is still used. One could even say that the lures are handmade but Rapala sells for a fraction of what they are worth. This has been happening for 100 years. It reminds me of what American companies were doing when I was ten, 40 years ago.
@@CuttySobz You can buy a Shad for under $12 for fish you CAN eat if you prefer and use over and over again (until to snag it). A big mac combo nowadays costs the same and can give you heart attack. Hell even Chinese food costs more nowadays.
no wonder the rapla is so good out here in the northwest.. It was made and designed by a lumberjack! I will think more about my rapala lure how it was made and even to saying it right from this moment on.. well done.. I have used rapalas for about 50 years now thanks Laurie!
Congratulations! Im from Brazil and Rapala is my favorite lures.The best one in my region is the Shadow Rap and Rip Stop ,i use to fish Peacock bass.Keep up the good work!!!!!!!Thanks
In the Boundry Waters of Minnesota over 50 years ago, I met my first Rapala. My crafty mother took some visual cues and made her own versions so we could go after big pike and walleyes. The local outfitter was renting the Rapala baits for, if I remember correctly, $10 bucks per day plus a $20 deposit in case you lost it. Mom's knock off was probably almost as effective and I doubt my dad was ever prouder of her when he landed some nice pike on the cheap. Sawbill Canoe Outfitters north of Toftee, Mn was our favorite place for several summers.
One of the most iconic fishing lures of all time. Mepps would be the other one. Thank You Rapala for the original floating f9 in Hot Steel, my last two PB Smallmouth have came to hand with that lure. I am searching for other models in that color now, please do not discontinue Hot Steel. Thank You
Great video great production work great information and thank you rapala. I just bought a hj10 silver tonight that I can't wait to use here in Western lower Michigan
Jointed Shad Rap are my all time fav. Crappie, Bass, Walleye, Pike, Muskie, even Cats. Most of the trout I've caught were on the jointed floater on a slow retrieve. Since I stopped using live bait these and twister tails are literally all I buy.
My first bass I ever caught was on a Rapala when I was around 9 years old at a kids fishing derby. Bass weighted 6.5 pounds and got me a trophy for biggest fish and a picture in the local news paper. My parent had the bass mounted and the lure hangs from its mouth. I never used it again. Awesome seeing this story! Thanks for great memories Rapala!
To be fair, I’ve tested them and they bomb compared to the Shakespeare Big S or the Rublex Ondex No.6 spinner. The catch rates are considerably lower and that’s testing them for 1000’s of hours alongside other lures. A twitched dead bait surpasses all artificials, especially in terms of successful hook ups and fish landed. The trebles also hurt the fish and are horrible to unhook, compared to a single Aberdeen hook. I also had a Rapala scale which stopped functioning after a few weeks of use. I received no response from their customer services, so I refused to buy their products ever again. You can’t trust a company, who have been shown to not support you when things go wrong.
@@seeitpickitbinit2510you see things much different then me I have been using them since the mid 1960 they worked well and they work very well now in 2020. That's more then I can say for most.
Victor Remick I should imagine different countries might vary in the fish’s lure preference, but Pike, Perch and Chub in the UK, tend to be less likely to take a Rapala. It’s not just their performance, I think that they are bad because they add to plastic pollution in our waterways and because they are too expensive for what they are. They are pretty though, haaa.
Rapala lures have always been my favorite and #1 go-to lure for any fish and situation, both in Saltwater and Freshwater fishing since I was 7 years old.... I am now 45, and I still prefer Rapala lures over everything else.... there is nothing else out there that can match Rapala's style
About 15 years ago I buy one Rapala 6 inch in length and 40 Ringgit each , I have to work for 1 day to buy 1 piece , it so expensive but it worth it , it's colour red head white body , with one bait caught 4 big fish total weight not less than 25kg , I from Malaysia 🙌
It's so good to see a success history made of hard work. I love rapala cd Mag lures, they are quite expensive here in Brazil, but the performance compensates the price.
I'm not very old, I'm 36, but I have been fishing for 30 years and when I'm not catching fish, I always get in my tackle box and pull out a Rapala. They have ALWAYS been my favorite lures, of ALL kinds.
There are cheap made in china knock-off lures available, but I have found the quality, durability, and action of the Rapala to be worth the price always!
I never realized until now that I've been pronouncing Rapala wrong all these years, btw no mention of the fillet knives? Growing up that was a coming of age gift for every boy in the neighborhood!
Years ago I bought a freshwater Rapala lure out of a discount junk bin at a Walmart in Bentoville Arkansas for a dollar and sum. That freshwater lure turned out to be the best saltwater lure I ever had. That lure landed speckled seatrout shortly after hitting the waters off the pier on the Gulf of Mexico in Riviera TX. My youngest brother took the old lure out of my shed one day after asking me for some mono for his fishing rod and lost it due to not trying it properly. I was so upset and since then I have yet to find any lure as good as that one.
Hey man this weekend my local tackle shop is doing a 2 for the price of 1 deal on Rapalas and im going for my 1st ever Rapalas, i fish for trout in rivers in Scotland, can you recommend a couple of diffirent types, i know about the countdown and UL minnows but not so sure about colours and patterns, thanks in advance 👍💙🎣 ✌💙👍 from Scotland 👋
@20:23. The Rapala DT lures are silent killers for Bass! I caught a nice little 17 inch Largemouth Bass on that EXACT SAME LURE (and color)! It was the Firetiger Rapala DT-14. (DT = Dives To)
I LOVED WATCHING THE VIDEO, RAPALA IS THE BEST LURE DESIGNS FOR MY FAVORITE FISH, THE WALLEYE'S, I ICE FISH, ALL YOUR ICE RIPPING RAPS, CATCH MONSTER WALLEYE'S, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO MAKE MY FISHING EXPERIENCE AWESOME THANKS 👍🇺🇸
I used a floating one for many years that I have sadly lost now. A floating one that worked like gangbusters. So many trouts were caught with that thing. We also had a sinking one that sadly did not work so great.
Rapala the Greatest minnow style made lure ever made! I remember in the 60's when they first caught on in the upper Midwest, they didn't sell them they rented them and you had leave a $20.00 deposit and your drivers license! And fishermen still kept them!
The best lures bar none. The CD 1 & 3 plus F3 will catch trout for me every outing , never ever have I blanked using these . Lakes and rivers here in Southern Ireland . CD range for deep water the Floating Originals for shallows , also taken Salmon on the tiny CD1 😂😂
Smithwick has less variety, but I'd argue their Rouge series is as good if not better than husky jerks/ similar Rapala lures. That is if they are still making them, tough to find Perfect 10s anymore.
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That is job for me
I love it....
I have made many lures using rapala models
Thank you rapala
Please, do not discontinue the shadow shad rap series (frosted colors). This excellent lure and color. I can't find this color anywhere.
Please bring quality control back yo your Countdown and Husky Jerk lines. About 2/3 of them don't run true anymore. I'm not the only guy I know who says this.
I would have enjoyed watching the whole story except the obnoxious music drowned out the voices
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I've got in the water many times to save my Rapala
At 7 bucks a pop, I would to lol.
Worth every penny, though.
Yup I had to swim out couple weeks ago rapala sell for 15 to 20 up here
Kurt Manion yup over the last few years they gone up in price like crazy
I'll only throw ones over $5 into places I know I can get them back if I get snagged
Same
I've been a user of Rapala baits for over 43 years. Rapala's were the first lures I bought as a young kid with my money earned on the family farm after a week's work, $5. I still have and use some of those lures to this day.
Rapala is the first lure brand I learned and bought, over 40 years ago. That lure, and several like it, are still in my tackle box.
Rapala is a way of life.
still have a few from 40 years ago too
@@ronaldmcdonald3965 : Closer to 50, for me. The most expensive lure in that display case at the hardware store. I can remember spending $1.65 for the privilege of buying one in a flyspeck village. It was my first and best topwater lure, from Day 1. The wounded minnow imitation, where you make it look like a hurt fish trying but failing to swim to the depths. Irresistible to bass. Immune to snagging in rocks. The one lure you'd jump in and get, when any other time, you'd be scared to go in. Rapala courage.
I agree with you. Amazing factory.
Same
J7 & J11 for me ! 83 was the first time I used the J7. Its been a lifelong relationship. Mann's hard woom was right there with them. PEACE
So much work and TLC for me to just snag them on the first cast lmao
You should look into magnetic fishing.....
Rapala lure are life
Learn ur hobby bro..
We can make the lures, but we can't make the fisherman!
@@Rapala noice
Rapala started it all and a true genius at that 👍
keep snagging them, i love finding them on my kayak :)
Me too😂
You too?
I just found a kvd sexy shad square bill ,looked bran new!
I grew up using Rapala lures. My best largemouth bass was over 12 pounds on a Shad Rap, Rapalas are my favorite lures period.
I swear, it was ✋thiiiiiiiiis biiiiig✋😁
This was really cool! The first fishing lure I ever used was a Rapala Floating Minnow my Dad gave me. That was nearly 30 years ago, and I have enjoyed using them ever since. Have caught many different species and sizes of fish over the years!
That was my first one ever also. I still have that lure.
I've caught the most of my fish with Rapala pop here in Czech Republic. The fish love it, from small perchs up to medium sized pikes. Only Rapala for me, thanks guys!
In my opinion the rapala husky jerk is amazing I use it on every fishing trip.
Agreed! Great lure for Pike in clown colour
I'm amazed at just how much of the process is hand made, hand loaded, hand painted.
Not like the old days when Mr rapala made them one at a time by hand!!👍 🇨🇦
And still they cost $$.I would choose hand made lures always before buying Rapala.
I've been using this little guys for decades and now I get to see how it is made. Thanks!! So cool.
As a ten year old I got my first real fishing lure, Rapala, and I’m using 40 years later. I have built up my tackle box with adding solely Rapala lures over the years and I’ve probably got every color and type made. I also still have the original box and papers for each lure. Those cardboard boxes must be another invention by Rapala because they never wear out. This is a company that checks every lure before it leaves the facility. They have a sense of quality and dedication. They know that is something that Business Think-tanks and brainstorming ideas about what well make money isn’t going to work. They make a high quality product and have always been very inexpensive in the store. Balsa wood is still used. One could even say that the lures are handmade but Rapala sells for a fraction of what they are worth. This has been happening for 100 years. It reminds me of what American companies were doing when I was ten, 40 years ago.
I snagged my first rapala and never even caught a fish on it lmao, what kind of sand bottom weedless waters are you fishing? 🤣
Inexpensive for you maybe xD
@@CuttySobz You can buy a Shad for under $12 for fish you CAN eat if you prefer and use over and over again (until to snag it). A big mac combo nowadays costs the same and can give you heart attack. Hell even Chinese food costs more nowadays.
@@mystrre3553 Thanks bo that's why I prefer to spend less when fishing.
I was out shopping with my wife the other day. As the basket went down the aisle I reached over and tossed an F-11 in there. My old stand by.
no wonder the rapla is so good out here in the northwest.. It was made and designed by a lumberjack! I will think more about my rapala lure how it was made and even to saying it right from this moment on.. well done.. I have used rapalas for about 50 years now thanks Laurie!
my favorite type of lures starting off fishing as a kid. love this brand
I love mi Rapala’s since 1995👍 and yes it was the first lure I used and is always in my box !!! First my Dad Me and now my kids use Rapala
Beautiful,, nice to see how they are made & the story behind them,, I have always loved my Rapala's...!!!
I don't fish with my childhood Raps anymore, too many memories to loose one!
rapala is my favorite bait.. i use them all the time
Good video! Rapala lures are some of my favorite lures to use.
Congratulations! Im from Brazil and Rapala is my favorite lures.The best one in my region is the Shadow Rap and Rip Stop ,i use to fish Peacock bass.Keep up the good work!!!!!!!Thanks
Great in Australia to for rivers and creeks just about any fish will eat them
Lost a few tho 😭
The ripstops are absolute killers
In the Boundry Waters of Minnesota over 50 years ago, I met my first Rapala. My crafty mother took some visual cues and made her own versions so we could go after big pike and walleyes. The local outfitter was renting the Rapala baits for, if I remember correctly, $10 bucks per day plus a $20 deposit in case you lost it. Mom's knock off was probably almost as effective and I doubt my dad was ever prouder of her when he landed some nice pike on the cheap. Sawbill Canoe Outfitters north of Toftee, Mn was our favorite place for several summers.
What a great show. Thanks from The Ky Woodsman for taking us with you!
Fifty thousand a day gonna need more than that for snags
Tech Boy68
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I really enjoyed watching that video. Thanks from 🇬🇧
My favorite lure company right here ❤
He offended me when he said that fishing is simple sport 😂
One of the most iconic fishing lures of all time. Mepps would be the other one. Thank You Rapala for the original floating f9 in Hot Steel, my last two PB Smallmouth have came to hand with that lure. I am searching for other models in that color now, please do not discontinue Hot Steel. Thank You
Thank you Rapala you have enhanced my life for many years. ☝️
My favourite Rapala is a J11 diving lure for Sea Bass. I really like the action and quality.
Great video great production work great information and thank you rapala. I just bought a hj10 silver tonight that I can't wait to use here in Western lower Michigan
One of my favorite lures of all time
Jointed Shad Rap are my all time fav. Crappie, Bass, Walleye, Pike, Muskie, even Cats.
Most of the trout I've caught were on the jointed floater on a slow retrieve.
Since I stopped using live bait these and twister tails are literally all I buy.
My first bass I ever caught was on a Rapala when I was around 9 years old at a kids fishing derby. Bass weighted 6.5 pounds and got me a trophy for biggest fish and a picture in the local news paper. My parent had the bass mounted and the lure hangs from its mouth. I never used it again. Awesome seeing this story! Thanks for great memories Rapala!
awesome story!
I’m really jealous helluva story
Ya ain't gotta lie to be my friend LMAO 😂
i love rapala lures and now i love them more
Shad rap has and always will be my favorite bait
Excellent video. Thanks for the insight.
THE MOST PRODUCTIVE LURE IN YOUR BOX. AND THERE KNIFES ARE THE BEST I HAVE EVER USED.
I LOVE their filet knives.... The Fins don't mess around when it comes to their knives. Highly flexible that hold their memory and sharp as razors
To be fair, I’ve tested them and they bomb compared to the Shakespeare Big S or the Rublex Ondex No.6 spinner. The catch rates are considerably lower and that’s testing them for 1000’s of hours alongside other lures. A twitched dead bait surpasses all artificials, especially in terms of successful hook ups and fish landed. The trebles also hurt the fish and are horrible to unhook, compared to a single Aberdeen hook.
I also had a Rapala scale which stopped functioning after a few weeks of use. I received no response from their customer services, so I refused to buy their products ever again. You can’t trust a company, who have been shown to not support you when things go wrong.
@@seeitpickitbinit2510you see things much different then me I have been using them since the mid 1960 they worked well and they work very well now in 2020. That's more then I can say for most.
Victor Remick I should imagine different countries might vary in the fish’s lure preference, but Pike, Perch and Chub in the UK, tend to be less likely to take a Rapala. It’s not just their performance, I think that they are bad because they add to plastic pollution in our waterways and because they are too expensive for what they are. They are pretty though, haaa.
SEEITPICKITBINIT yeah you don’t sound biased at all.
Wow makes me appreciate the craft so much more. Gonna order a few online
I really enjoyed this..thanks..!
I cant wait for my first rapalas to arrive! 🥳
Love the deep huskies for walleye! Killers
rapala legacy nice video love to see how sum peoples dreams come thru hard work.!
I had to watch this several times it was so interesting !🎣👍
19:55 This is the best part of fishing.
🍻🐟🐟🐟🐟
Rapala lures have always been my favorite and #1 go-to lure for any fish and situation, both in Saltwater and Freshwater fishing since I was 7 years old.... I am now 45, and I still prefer Rapala lures over everything else.... there is nothing else out there that can match Rapala's style
Wow, what a way to live. Great video. It’s nice to see where some of my lures come from.
About 15 years ago I buy one Rapala 6 inch in length and 40 Ringgit each , I have to work for 1 day to buy 1 piece , it so expensive but it worth it , it's colour red head white body , with one bait caught 4 big fish total weight not less than 25kg , I from Malaysia 🙌
Great wrapping at the end ahahahahah Fantastic Rapala! Love theme
It's so good to see a success history made of hard work. I love rapala cd Mag lures, they are quite expensive here in Brazil, but the performance compensates the price.
sin duda la mejor marca de señuelos rapala saludos desde Temuco, Chile 🇨🇱 región de la Araucanía 🎣🐟🐟🐟
I'm not very old, I'm 36, but I have been fishing for 30 years and when I'm not catching fish, I always get in my tackle box and pull out a Rapala. They have ALWAYS been my favorite lures, of ALL kinds.
My favorite Rapala is the deep runner 5, that little thing catches fish right an left!
There are cheap made in china knock-off lures available, but I have found the quality, durability, and action of the Rapala to be worth the price always!
Love to have all that tech at my fingertips. I’m sure when guys start working there they are very motivated.
Rapala is a POWERFUL and very influential fishing brand known all over the fishing world for decades! I LOVE Rapala lures.
Lower at the beginning of this video was a DT three one of my favorites
A show to my taste. Thank you very much
Ive caught most of my top water bass on gold and black f.9 f.11 and f.13 awesome bait
I've easily got 50 Rapala lures in my tackle room right now, and the need to order that many more for upcoming walleye season.
This is very fascinating especially me as a rapala fan
I never realized until now that I've been pronouncing Rapala wrong all these years, btw no mention of the fillet knives? Growing up that was a coming of age gift for every boy in the neighborhood!
Dude...Rapala replied!
You didn’t, he did
I didnt know Rapala was Finnish.
Im suddenly Proud of my country.
Great production 11 outta 10
Years ago I bought a freshwater Rapala lure out of a discount junk bin at a Walmart in Bentoville Arkansas for a dollar and sum. That freshwater lure turned out to be the best saltwater lure I ever had. That lure landed speckled seatrout shortly after hitting the waters off the pier on the Gulf of Mexico in Riviera TX. My youngest brother took the old lure out of my shed one day after asking me for some mono for his fishing rod and lost it due to not trying it properly. I was so upset and since then I have yet to find any lure as good as that one.
I love the jointed Rapala's...they never fail to catch fish...
An awesome brand. I have many.
初めまして、日本からです。ナンバーワンのラパラですね！素晴らしい！
Caught my first fish, it was a Pike on a Rapala jointed minnow. That was a deadly lure that caught many, many fish.
Rapala in SC all day. Started using them wayyyyy back in the 60's. Still rule my box. (Boxes) lol
I have my grandfathers and my dads old Rapala's. They include a couple of Wobbler's and Magnum's.
Anyone else use the Ultralight Minnow for trout in streams? They are killer!
CJ Duran Outdoors the silver f3 minnow is a trout killer
CJ Duran Outdoors do you also have the rapala countdown 3 cm
Thought I was the only one. If you can cope with snag city, it triggers like no other.
Hey man this weekend my local tackle shop is doing a 2 for the price of 1 deal on Rapalas and im going for my 1st ever Rapalas, i fish for trout in rivers in Scotland, can you recommend a couple of diffirent types, i know about the countdown and UL minnows but not so sure about colours and patterns, thanks in advance 👍💙🎣
✌💙👍 from Scotland 👋
Never tell your fishing secrets....now I'm going to be catching trout in streams.
Awesome history lesson!!
Great video, thanks!
This was a treat.
Very interesting video. Thank you.
Rapala ghost rap is my go to from crappie bass northern walleye and muske
Also Storm ! i love it
His sun tan on his face at the end was perfect lmao
Never knew even the best baits from Rapala are made of wood those baits are sooo good a tot a pike on my first Rapala cast!👍
Nice lures
I loved seeing the workers in the distribution center
Wow so very nice product Rapala
@20:23. The Rapala DT lures are silent killers for Bass! I caught a nice little 17 inch Largemouth Bass on that EXACT SAME LURE (and color)! It was the Firetiger Rapala DT-14.
(DT = Dives To)
I LOVED WATCHING THE VIDEO, RAPALA IS THE BEST LURE DESIGNS FOR MY FAVORITE FISH, THE WALLEYE'S, I ICE FISH, ALL YOUR ICE RIPPING RAPS, CATCH MONSTER WALLEYE'S, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO TO MAKE MY FISHING EXPERIENCE AWESOME THANKS 👍🇺🇸
Great vid, thank you..
I used a floating one for many years that I have sadly lost now. A floating one that worked like gangbusters. So many trouts were caught with that thing. We also had a sinking one that sadly did not work so great.
Rapala the Greatest minnow style made lure ever made! I remember in the 60's when they first caught on in the upper Midwest, they didn't sell them they rented them and you had leave a $20.00 deposit and your drivers license! And fishermen still kept them!
Wow amazing rapala,I know now.thanks for sharing good video.godbless
@Ricky's TV
The best lures bar none. The CD 1 & 3 plus F3 will catch trout for me every outing , never ever have I blanked using these . Lakes and rivers here in Southern Ireland . CD range for deep water the Floating Originals for shallows , also taken Salmon on the tiny CD1 😂😂
Smithwick has less variety, but I'd argue their Rouge series is as good if not better than husky jerks/ similar Rapala lures. That is if they are still making them, tough to find Perfect 10s anymore.
I've got a blue rapala that my grandfather gave me years ago, he always swore by it and I always keep it in my tackle box because I know it works
Great story. Subscribed to both sites
That’s amazing place
Rapala perch floater is what I caught my biggest smallmouth bass on.
"We can drink some beer... and wait :)"
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Amazing video
Absolutely amazing...what else can I say?
best lure in the world, best factory ❤