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Sunfish
Posted 15 August 2014 - 09:47 AM
So I got to spend the past week back home in Northeastern Ontario (Kirkland Lake area), and spent a day canoeing around on Larder Lake. The smallies, like this guy, loved my white XRap:
And this guy:
And these guys....at the same time...
I found a rocky little island to have lunch on, and a few casts in I caught two smallies...one on each treble. Apparently the bass in Larder Lake really can't resist a white XRap....even one already in another smallie's mouth!
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Rainbow Trout
Posted 15 August 2014 - 09:49 AM
That's awesome!!!
Perch
Posted 15 August 2014 - 10:16 AM
Nicely done, Will! My family is from the Kirkland area as well - love it up there!
If all goes as planned, I should be up that way in September.
Sunfish
Posted 15 August 2014 - 11:32 AM
Sunfish
Posted 15 August 2014 - 01:47 PM
So I got to spend the past week back home in Northeastern Ontario (Kirkland Lake area), and spent a day canoeing around on Larder Lake. The smallies, like this guy, loved my white XRap:
And this guy:
And these guys....at the same time...
I found a rocky little island to have lunch on, and a few casts in I caught two smallies...one on each treble. Apparently the bass in Larder Lake really can't resist a white XRap....even one already in another smallie's mouth!
the 2 for 1 is just classic! nice smallies 
Perch
Posted 15 August 2014 - 02:14 PM
White X-Rap in 8cm size doesn't catch fish. Don't listen to his lies. 
Rainbow Trout
Posted 15 August 2014 - 03:26 PM
I just ordered some x-raps
Sunfish
Posted 15 August 2014 - 03:29 PM
haha....thanks guys. It's definitely nice to fish in a lake where you can see for a few km's......and no other boats!
But it's true, MuskieBait. I just edited the color of the XRap to hide the secret pattern. Everyone knows white lures are boring and don't work...
Sunfish
Posted 15 August 2014 - 03:35 PM
I just ordered some x-raps
There's something about how they swim that drives smallies nuts. I had my fly rod there and was trying a streamer that was almost the same size, colour and shape, and they wouldn't touch it. I even tried the same speed and depth...nothing. X-Raps FTW.
Perch
Posted 15 August 2014 - 04:16 PM
I just ordered some x-raps
where from?
Smallmouth Bass
Posted 15 August 2014 - 04:27 PM
Very nice, the two for one is just wicked!
Rainbow Trout
Posted 15 August 2014 - 05:12 PM
Shiner Minnow
Posted 15 August 2014 - 06:06 PM
That's awesome! I was also up there this past Saturday but since I don't have a boat, I fished along the shores. Still, the trip was definitely worthwhile. On my first few casts I was using a heavy spoon and BAM I felt a hard tug. So, I'm reeling like a mad man thinking that I might have finally hooked a trout (which I have been dying to catch since I started fishing two years ago!) but of course it was just a branch!
So I see some small fish cruising around near the shore and decided to target them instead. I switched to a bobber and hook setup and cast it out and within a few minutes I see the bobber vanish. Adrenaline! I could tell that the fish was small but having caught only a few fish in my short fishing history, I was pumped! It turned out to be a tiny smallmouth no bigger than my hand but boy was I happy.
Plopping the fish back into the water was even more satisfying!
After that I caught 3 more smallies of which this one was the biggest.
All in all, it was a great day of fishing and I am excited to go back there again in a few months. I had a purple Xrap with me last Saturday but I didn't think of using it. I'll try my luck using it next time!
Perch
Posted 15 August 2014 - 08:26 PM
There's something about how they swim that drives smallies nuts. I had my fly rod there and was trying a streamer that was almost the same size, colour and shape, and they wouldn't touch it. I even tried the same speed and depth...nothing. X-Raps FTW.
I did not catch any Peacock Bass, Mayan Cichlid and Oscars with X-Raps in Florida.
I did not catch any Jack Crevalle and Great Barracuda with X-Raps in Belize.
I did not catch any Japanese Seabass with X-Raps in Hong Kong.
I did not catch any Talang Queenfish and Mangrove Red Snapper in Malaysia.
I leave all my X-Raps at home when I travel. It's such a junk lure, I'm not going to buy more in the future.
Crappie
Posted 16 August 2014 - 09:45 AM
Nice smallies!
Any rapala is a good rapala!
Smallmouth Fanatic
Posted 16 August 2014 - 07:42 PM
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