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Hello, Underwhitenhorse of www.officialofwork.com. Today we're going to review the Rapula X-Wrap
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Extreme Action Slash Bait. Stay tuned. Now I wanted to go over this particular type of Rapula minnow because I am a big fan of Rapula and
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And when I was down in Florida, in Jupiter, Florida, I wanted to get something that kind of mimicked the Manhattan that usually goes through there
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And this was advised by me by one of the reps in the fishing center that I went to
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The really cool thing about it is that it has a little red and sparkly end to it
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Now the reason for this is that it needs to look like a wounded bait fish
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When a school of menhaden or really any bait fish for any type of fish including bass and all the other freshwater things
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you have to let the fish know that this is going to be an easier bait to catch
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Now as you see this, this is a pretty small thing. It's about two and a half, three inches at the most
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It has smaller treble hooks and this is a different type of jerkbait
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By Rapplers of regards, they like to call it a slashbait because you're supposed to jerk it wildly and it doesn't wobble but too much
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But it's actually a suspension crankbait and it has rattles in there
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If you look very closely at the bottom, right there, you see that little black dot in the white part of the bottom
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that is one of the i believe there's one or two bbs in there that make that sound sorry for the wind
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you know it's a windy day it's freaking freezing but i gotta do my thing here and the the right at
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the end is supposed to signify it's bleeding now if you could knock this thing into a piece of wood
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or something would be great but this is not a square bill or anything crankbait and you can't
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really like knock into stuff it will get caught including on you i keep poking myself in my crank
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rates lately. It has the patented blackhead because the fish are looking down and they can't see it
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and the white bottom just like any other minnow or minnay, so it's really good for that
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So it also has the red lid, so in case they're bleeding from the other direction, they think it's bleeding on that side either
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So let's go over some of the specs in the box. Obviously I spent $11.50 for it, maybe I overspent, maybe I didn't
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I believe we can get cheaper now that everything is on sale at like grass pro shops and other places
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because they're trying to get people in there so get some deals right now particularly in this it
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will not cost you $1.50 anymore. I think I got this two years ago
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Also you look at the side here it says extreme slash bait top and at the bottom it's adrenaline
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pumping long casting because it has weight in it it's a little heavier than a normal minnow
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It's also a suspension minnow. Now when I said that earlier, you probably have used the suspension minnow before and
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you're like, oh I know how that works. But this one's a little different. When it hits the suspension level just a couple feet it actually wobbles like this It just a light wobble like that And that kind of the same thing that happens when you hit a crankbait against a rod I mean against a stump or a log and you pause for a second and it wobbles for a little bit
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It smashes and you're staying up because of the wind and you're talking. But yeah, that actually will start bites. That little bit of pause, that little bit of wiggle
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right at the suspension level and hopefully you're using the spade because you know that's
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where the bass are that's the depth that they're you know suspending that
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so this is the silver version silver and on the back it says something interesting
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the integrated long casting system partners with an air system rattle and classical
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plastic Rappler action. It suspends and comes to a roll at rest to trigger the bike. Then
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it says in the French. I'll let you read that. Pause the video, read it, read everything
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else. It came in here originally and it has a silver background that makes it look extra
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sparkly. You know, we like shiny things. You're like, oh, Rappler looks good. I could
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get a set of Rapplers and just hang them on the wall and just look at them like a fish
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That looks tasty. So let's stop chatting and get out here and see what happens with this Rappler X-Rap
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The water is really cold and it's moving very fast
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So it's a little rough and I know there's some logs down here that I might get hung on
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and it'll probably make me really angry. But that happens, it'll be an early show
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So I'm actually hitting the bottom here
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It's a little shallow. At least the logs that used to be sitting here maybe have blown away
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So let's take a look at the action of this bait. The water is moving a little fast, but I wanted to show you just a little bit of the action in the water here
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I have an underwater camera Watch it jerk you can see the wobble from side to side You can see it sinks pretty regularly
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Pretty quickly. The water wasn't moving so much. Let's do a little shower
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See that? That little darting action with the red tail is like a blood trail
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Man, man. I'm gonna fish here a blood trail. Awesome. Man, as you can see it's burning, aren't they
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And my hands are about to freeze, so I'm gonna make this short
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Just for your viewing pleasure, you can watch me fish for a little bit if that's what you like to do
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Pretty sure it's not going to catch anything out here. Current's too strong just like when I was in the last review that I put out
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And it's super cold and it's super windy. Now we all know fishmen don't like too much wind
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It really hurts your casting. It hurts positioning your boat. It just overall stops
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It moves the water radically and the fish don't wipe it too much underneath even though they're slightly protective
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So I'll have another video and maybe some solutions about that once I can work this out
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So, give myself a gandy. Oh, the sun wants to come out now. Great
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And the crane just flew away. I love it when I hit the ground and I think it's a bike
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But then it's not. Oh. The grass is failing. Every now and again I'll get really lucky and a yellow perch will be super aggressive and attack my mass sized oars
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They really they not like bluegills but just bigger mounts and they bite it man They bite it if it the same size I don know what wrong with it but I wouldn mind one of those right now
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Point of yellow perch out here. And there's some white perch too, but they don't usually go this deep into the river
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We're in Watertown right now. I'm popping up my glasses. I can't see a dang thing
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So guys, I'm going to cut it off right here
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This is the end of the review slash fishing session with the Rapala XRAP in the Charles
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River in Wartown, Massachusetts. If you want to see more videos like this, just go down below and click the subscribe button
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