OH. MY. GOSH. my dream has come true. the new rapala releases for 2012. the deep jointed husky jerk. ive wanted that forever. i very nearly started picking up storm deep jointed minnow sticks because i wanted it so bad. now i can stick with rapala! im so excited. also the xrap prop (a rip off smithwick, i know) looks awesome. just what i need. another lure to spend money on.

jaximus wrote on Dec 1^st, 2011 at 3:09am:


Jax your in luck.......newly married and the right time of the season!!

Here is a hint, the line goes something like this........."hey babycakes, remember when you asked me what I wanted for Christmas"............

Runs at only 4' - 8'.  How does that qualify for "deep?"  Assuming we're talking about fishing canadian shield I'll pass.  If they can get it to at least 12' I might find it (more) useful.  16' would be better.  I have a Rapala Sliver in my tackle box that gets trolling action but I can get that down to 12'.

@mt... i happened to "stumble" upon the rapala website when she was sitting next to me and i may have said which color patterns would be effective where i fish

@phantom, how does that sliver work? ive been thinking about trying one of those too (before i saw the new jointed deep hj). im pretty sure trolled you could get 10 ft pretty easy and 15 on a thin enough diameter super line with a bit more line out. jointed ones never seem to run as deep because of the drag and bend from the joint. but im confident you could hit 12' fairly consistently with them.

They are only made in the one size (08)? A bigger, deeper running, jointed would be nice.