08-27-2015, 04:11 PM
The clear winner for me in Rapalas is the rainbow pattern. Rainbow trout, SMB, LMB, brown trout, tiger trout, white bass, walleye, even perch have bitten on my rainbow CD-5. I'll put it on a duolock snap tied directly to my 30 lb braid (which happens to be moss colored) and toss it out and catch them without a leader fairly regularly. A fluoro leader does increase your chances of success but also increases your chances of losing the lure.
The gold HJ-6 I have doesn't do as good but it does catch browns on the LP. The silver HJ-8 has been awesome for tiger trout because of the ability to suspend in the water. Many times I've had a finicky fish follow all the way to shore and paused with the HJ's and had them sidle in for a quick strike-turn-bolt maneuver and been surprised when their food bites back.
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The gold HJ-6 I have doesn't do as good but it does catch browns on the LP. The silver HJ-8 has been awesome for tiger trout because of the ability to suspend in the water. Many times I've had a finicky fish follow all the way to shore and paused with the HJ's and had them sidle in for a quick strike-turn-bolt maneuver and been surprised when their food bites back.
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