Minnow Rap Cleans Up in Canada

[sea nympho]

Turned out to be the hot lure in Ontario this year, literally caught SCORES of fish on the 2 minnow raps I took with me. It served up a mixed bag too, northerns, splake, and my biggest walleyes and lakers were caught on it. I was the only one who brought them, and was handsomely rewarded by the fish gods for doing so (and keeping my mouth shut before we left:lol: )

It works a very good depth range for large, active predators. It swims well at slow speeds. I modified one to be neutrally bouyant, and the fish just KILLED it while it sat at rest 2feet above the bottom at the base of breaks - that was the primary pattern we fished.

This year was the best fishing in 3 years, fish were highly aggressive (just the way I like it), gotta love the ice coming off early. Water levels, however, were down 4 feet from last year.

Several pics of the trip in my gallery if anyone cares to see the damage the minnow raps did.

DON'T GO FISHING IN CANADA WITHOUT 'EM!!!

[Chawazz]

Good job on scoring the fish. I looked through some of your photos, looked like a very successful trip :cool:

I assume since you were suspending the lure, you were casting. Or trolling or both??

Do you know about how deep they would dive?

Thanks . . .

[sea nympho]

Both. Lure dives 6-8 when casting and 10-11 when trolling, depending on speed and line length. That just happened to be "the zone" on the lakes I fish this year due to the low water. The new weeds were growing out to the edge of the primary break to deeper water. It was perfect.

[mifisher]

What were the hot colors? Nice catches by the way!

[sfw1960]

Nice job on the fish!
DON'T tell 'em Purpledescent , I know it doesn't work....
:lol: :lol:

Nice waggle on those baits , huh??

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/542/medium/100_1527_sm_.jpg

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/542/medium/100_1536_sm_.jpg

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/100_1515_sm_.jpg


http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/photopost/data/500/medium/100_1519_sm_.jpg

Pretty Splake too , nice colors man!!!
BTW~
If you don't want those mushy , flavorless eyeballz - I know a few guys that would reluctantly eat 'em for ya!
:lol:


Looks like a TOTAL blast!
:fish2:
Robert

[sea nympho]

This was a hot lure:



I had brought another one in firetiger, and it did well two but only lasted a couple hours until I lost it to rocks (with 20# fireline/30# CrossLok snap leader, no less).

SFW - the "pickerel" (as the canadians call 'em) was :corkysm55 DELICIOUS:corkysm55 ! Ate one of the bigger ones last night baked in parchment with garlic-herb butter, asparagus and roasted sweet peppers. And that minnow rap is one hell of a lure.

I even took the time to bleed the fish out before filleting(I highly reccomend this after trying it), and the fillets turned out perfectly white - then the fish was frozen 10 minutes later. YUM. The Splake and Lakers are what I'm looking forward too, though. I bled them out, dressed 'em, and froze them whole. Gonna stuff those and bake 'em. Maybe filet one or two.

We had 3 Splake filet shorelunches cooked on the floor of my boat with a boy scout mess kit, mr heater, olive oil & lawrys(I should have took pictures:( ). I fileted those bad boys up on the carpeted floor of my boat:coolgleam . Shoulda had a sign on my boat that said "FRESH FISH SERVED HERE".


Splake fishing is the hottest thing going.

[sfw1960]

schWEET.
The 'eye recipe sounds damn good , kinda like that bleeding olive bait!
:lol:
The Pupledescent SHOULD be on your list , when you get your Firetiger replacement - get one as well.
;)
Maybe you should post that waldo/fish recipe in the recipe section so thers may enjoy it.
:evilsmile

R

[sea nympho]

schWEET.
The 'eye recipe sounds damn good , kinda like that bleeding olive bait!
:lol:
The Pupledescent SHOULD be on your list , when you get your Firetiger replacement - get one as well.
;)
Maybe you should post that waldo/fish recipe in the recipe section so thers may enjoy it.
:evilsmile

R

Purpledescent it is! As good as those baits are, I'LL TAKE ONE OF EACH:lol: !
And two more Bleeding Olives. Green sure was the color up there this year, and I'm not even a big beliver in "colors" but green hit BIG.

The recipe is posted.

[sfw1960]

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1648525#post1648525

wh00MP!
'dere it is!!!!!!!!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

garlic-herb butter, asparagus and roasted sweet peppers.
:corkysm55:dizzy::corkysm55

[mifisher]

Thanks Sea N.! I'm head up to Canada late july for a week and will be sure to grab a couple. Don't need to grab the purple...already have a couple of those.:) The bleeding olive does look quite tasty along with your recipe. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:corkysm55