Scatter Rap

[PondBassNoob]

i'm curious if anyone has given these crankbaits a try. i'm intrigued by the new lip design

[Mccallister25]

I bought 2 of them to try out yesterday. The water has been wayyyy to muddy around here to fish with them, but I gave one of them 3 or 4 casts. From what I could see, the action looked like any other crank Iv seen.. But like I said, the water has been awful. I also noticed it was really light. It was sorta hard to get a good cast on a spinning reel. Maybe my opinion will change when I get the chance to really use it. Right now, theres nothing special Iv noticed about it.

[Comfortably Numb]

I have been throwing the crank version in Bluegill color and doing really well with it in post spawn. As said pretty light so 6'6"-7' spining rod works best. Only goes about 4' down with 20# PP braid. Very snagless in brush.

 

I have caught LM bass, Bluegill, shellcracker, Redear, Perch, Catfish, Pickeral, and a 22# carp on it. 

[Jrob78]

From what I understand, they key to getting the best action out of the bait is by starting and stopping your retrieve. When you fish the bait erratically, it behaves more erratically.

[Bluebasser86]

You can get good evasive action on a straight retrieve, it's just a matter of finding the sweet spot on how fast you can reel. I did a bit of a review from the one trip I really got to fish mine before I lost it on the final page of this post. 

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/113704-rapala-scatter-rap-baits/page-4?hl=%2Bscatter+%2Brap#entry1273151

[KU_Bassmaster.]

Awesome!!!  Is all I can say. 

 

One thing I have noticed is I seem to get a lot of short strikes or hooks outside the mouth which leads to more lost fish than I would like.

 

In my very unofficial testing over 2 outings when I got on a pretty good crankbait bite, I think the scatter crank was getting 2x as many strikes as a similar color DT6.  Of those strikes though, 100% of the DT6 made it to the boat while only 75% or so made it to the boat on the scatter crank.  The scatter crank also produced the 2 biggest bites (by far) and of course neither of them made it to the boat.

 

I really hope they expand this line.

[Comfortably Numb]

I also vary the retrieve speed and pause it. Many strikes come on the pause.  I also do seem to lose more than normal but usually when they jump. I tried sharper hooks and to my surprise it did not help much.

 

I think the evasive action may be why the bass can miss it. That seems to happen to me with flukes too.

[BradH]

I've fished them and they do catch fish.  They hunt as advertised.  That said, they don't catch any more fish than say a KVD 1.5, shallow shad rap or other baits that dive to a similar depth and they cost more.  I'm sure someday I'll find a situation where they outfish other baits, but I might be waiting a long time.  When they start showing up in the $5 Rapala treasure chest at walmart I'll pick up a few more.  They are now in my "overrated hype box".

[aqualkinbush]

I like them, caught the one in my pic on a firetiger minnow model. They seem to draw in alot of big strikes, however, the fish do miss much more than with a traditional crank. To me this makes the scatter action a double edged sword. It draws them in like nothing I've seen however the same action that draws them in also causes them to miss.