RAPAL The original Finnish
Minnow...and more
A lot has changed in fishing since 1936 when Lauri Rapala, a Finnish fisherman carved his first lure out of pine bark – and changed the way we fish today. The Original Floater was soon changed
to a balsa body, and it has evolved quite a bit over the years with improvements in the production and finishing technology. For the first decades of lure production,
1936-64
Original Floating 11 1951: Original Floating 9 1953: Original Floating 13 1964: Original Floating 7
1965 Original Floating 18 CountDown 7, CountDown 9, CountDown 11,
Saltwater Minnow 18, Jigging Rap 3, Jigging Rap 5, Jigging Rap 7, Jigging Rap 9
1965: Countdown
1966-71 CountDown 13 CountDown 13cm Saltwater
1967: Original Floating 5, CountDown 5 1969: Floating Magnum 16, CountDown Magnum 18 1971: Floating Magnum 13, CountDown Magnum 13
The world’s favourite lure maker has launched over 280 lure models since the introduction of the Original Rapala Floating in 1936
1972-76 Deep Diver 9
1973: Deep Diver 7,Vertical Jigging 45 mm, Vertical Jigging 65 mm 1974: Jointed 9 1975: Jointed 11 1976: Jointed 13
1977 Husky 13 Fat Rap 5, Fat Rap 7
1978-79 Shallow Fat Rap 5 Shallow Fat Rap 7,
Vertical Jigging 50 mm 1979: Mini Fat Rap
1980-81 Countdown Jointed 7 Countdown Jointed 9, Countdown Jointed 11
1979: Mini Fat Rap
1981: Floating Magnum 11, Floating Magnum 14, CountDown Magnum 11, CountDown Magnum 14, CountDown Magnum 18
30 1988: Rattlin’ Rapala 1969:
Countdown Magnum
1982-87 Shad Rap 7
1983-87 Shad Rap 5 Shallow Shad Rap 5, Shallow Shad Rap 7,
Countdown Magnum 9
1984: Rapala Pilkki, Jointed 13 1985: Sliver 20, Shallow Shad Rap 9, 1986: Countdown Magnum 7 1987: Sliver 13
1988-89 Rattlin’ Rapala 7 1989: Rattlin’ Rapala 5, CountDown 3
the selection Rapala offered to the fishermen of the world was two models – Original Floating and CountDown – in two colours: silver and gold. Today Rapala offers over 3500 different lure models, size and colour variations worldwide. Rapala started life as a balsa bait company,
and balsa-bodied lures with their unmatched responsive action are still the core of the Rapala hard bait range. Back in 1936, there was no way Lauri Rapala could have even conceived the modern materials used in the present-day lure manufacturing. Today, the engineers at Rapala also embrace all the design opportunities, like neutral buoyancy and translucency, plastic built lures afford them. Today’s Rapala lure range covers all
kinds of fishing situations from ultra-light freshwater to offshore saltwater and from topwater popping to deep water trolling. This timeline of Rapala lure introductions
shows how the lure range has expanded and also how lure fishing has evolved over the years. Many of the lures are now part of history, but surprisingly many still in the range, including the Original Floater.
1993: Super Shad Rap
1990-94 Squid 9 Squid 11, Shallow Shad Rap 8,
Shad Rap 8, Rattlin’ Rapala 6
1991: Rattlin’ Fat Rap 4, Rattlin’ Fat Rap 5, CountDown Magnum 10 1992: Rattlin’ Rapala 4, Rattlin’ Fat Rap 7
1993: Jigging Rap 11, Weedless Minnow Spoon 7, Minnow Spoon 7, Down Deep Rattlin’ Fat Rap 7, Super Shad Rap 14
1994: Weedless Minnow Spoon 6, Weedless Minnow Spoon 8, Minnow Spin 3, Down Deep Rattlin’ Fat Rap 5, CountDown Magnum 8, CountDown Magnum 22
1995: Husky Jerk
1995 Minnow Spin 2 Minnow Spin 5, Weedless Minnow
Spoon 5, Minnow Spoon 5, Husky Jerk 12, Husky Jerk 14
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