Rat-L-Trap Lures 2024
William Snee reply :
I am getting ready to order some rat-l-trap lures for bass. I currently use a chrome with blue back on one lake. The water is brownish to slightly stained.The other lake is green colored water that mixes with slightly stained water coming from canals. I have a 2015 catalog which is full of lures that display many color patterns. Just having a hard time choosing which ones to purchase. Any help is appreciated.
A-Jay reply :
No doubt Rat-L-Traps are effective & classic baits and that chrome & blue back is good almost anywhere, anytime.
However my advice to you is, if you don't already have one, buy one 1/2 ounce Strike King Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad color. Fish it when you feel a lipless bait will work and see how it goes.
And don't forget to stop your retrieve intermittently and to let the bait fall (on a semi tight line) as this is where the bait Excels. The standard Rat-L-Trap falls like a stone, but the Red Eye Shad descends with a nice little shimmy that bass can not resists.
Good Luck
A-Jay
MassBass reply :
Im looking forward to using red lipless baits in the early spring. Ripping it around weeds. Im gona get some redeye shads. Definetly one in the orange craw color. One of the best lures ever invented, and they are fun to fish and cover water. I kill stripers with silver color scheme rattlebaits.
Raul reply :
Choose the colors YOU LIKE, actually in low visibility conditions colors matter very little, bass do not need to see the bait in order to strike it.
Alonerankin2 reply :
Gold w/ black back, On the small rivers around here a redish, orange belly is hot at times, as is a Tilapia.
Angry John reply :
check out a few diffrent ones as the action is a little diffrent. The spro lipless are very life like looking and the luckycraft 500 also has a very good action.
Catt reply :
Gold black back orange belly
Red chrome
Toledo gold
desmobob reply :
I fish in very greenish-colored water. I've had excellent luck with Firetiger and Chartruese Crawdad.
Tight lines,
Bob
pbizzle reply :
The Storm Rockin' Shad also "rocks" on the fall. Both are GREAT baits though.On 1/3/2015 at 3:23 AM, A-Jay said:And don't forget to stop your retrieve intermittently and to let the bait fall (on a semi tight line) as this is where the bait Excels. The standard Rat-L-Trap falls like a stone, but the Red Eye Shad descends with a nice little shimmy that bass can not resists.
A-Jay
Weld's Largemouth reply :
perch colors.
fishballer06 reply :
Chartreuse shiner. End of story.
Brnnoser6983 reply :
Stimulate what's around. If there are Perch get perch, but a silver or chartreuse are always a winner in most lakes.
Hattrick7 reply :
I would also pick up some knocker traps while you're at it. It gives off a different sound than the regular beads and it can mean a few bites vs a lot of bites. Color wise the chrome blue is a must. I agree the sexy shad is also good. I'd try one with gold in it also.
smalljaw67 reply :
Lipless cranks have an array of colors and guys that have a lot of experience with them are able to fine tune color patterns that are most effective in their waters but the good part is beginners only need a few colors that will work anywhere. Keep it simple, chrome, chrome with black back, chrome with blue back, and a colored chrome like royal shad or blue shiner. Once you have your chrome baits you can leave it like that or add a forage color like Tilapia, sunfish, perch, or whatever forage your water has or you could go for bright color like chartreuse blue sparkle or chartreuse shad but make sure you get the chrome colors first and foremost. I say that because even if they are hitting a bright color or forage pattern, you can always get them on a chrome color, for example when fishing Cordell super spots, my buddy was hammering fish after fish on Jimmy Houston Summer Sunfish, I didn't have it and every other color I tried just wasn't working, they wanted that sunfish pattern. Well after I looked through my box, the only thing I had with a few of the same colors was a royal shad, so I put that on and I was catching fish too, not at the same rate but I was getting them, and it wasn't a one time thing, I've had a lot of days in which one pattern of lipless was doing well but we were always able to find one of the chrome patterns would work so I now make sure to have more chrome colors than anything else.
jbw252 reply :
I agree with the suggestions for the chrome variants of the Rat-L-Traps. Kudos to A-Jay for suggesting my favorite lipless crankbait - a Strike King Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad color. A great bait with a proven history.
roadwarrior reply :
The feature that makes the Red Eye Shad so effective is the nose down fall.
A color that has been good for me is Orange Craw.
MassBass reply :
On 1/3/2015 at 8:53 PM, roadwarrior said:The feature that makes the Red Eye Shad so effective is the nose down fall.
A color that has been good for me is Orange Craw.
Is the "orange craw" color actually red? It looks totally red online. I haven't seen the lure in person.
roadwarrior reply :
Yes, it looks red to me.
Fishes in trees reply :
My current thinking on Rattle baits is that brand is more important than color. I don't own every brand out there, but I do own Traps and Spots and the Yo-Zuri Drum and the Spro Aruku Shad and the Strike King Red Eye Shads and the predecessor the Diamond Shad, and the Bagley Shad-a-lack, and the Lucky Craft ones and I know I'm leaving out several.
My current favorite is a discontinued bait, the Berkley Frenzy, in a kind of shiny, shad color. I've thrown enough of these baits that these days I start and stay with the Frenzy. I have 4 of these baits left, down from a close out purchase of 10. When I run out of these baits, then I will resume my rattle bait experiments.
Scott F reply :
On 1/3/2015 at 11:57 PM, MassBass said:Is the "orange craw" color actually red? It looks totally red online. I haven't seen the lure in person.
They are a deep orange color. That one, the orange craw, has caught more fish for me this year than any other bait except for pointers. If you are buying lipless cranks, do yourself a favor and get at least one Red Eye Shad in Orange craw. If you only buy one, you'll make another trip for a few more. Believe me.
papajoe222 reply :
I have three favorites. Chrome/blue back, Sexy Shad and Red Craw. I will throw a Cotton Cordell gold/black back in stained water, but that isn't very often.
timsford reply :
All these colors listed above are good. Lipless baits are one of my favorite ways to fish. My absolute favorite is the orange belly craw redeye shad. I fish it like im stroking a jig. Let it sink to the bottom and rip it up a foot or two like a crawfish trying to escape
TorqueConverter reply :
On 1/3/2015 at 3:13 AM, William Snee said:I am getting ready to order some rat-l-trap lures for bass. I currently use a chrome with blue back on one lake. The water is brownish to slightly stained.The other lake is green colored water that mixes with slightly stained water coming from canals. I have a 2015 catalog which is full of lures that display many color patterns. Just having a hard time choosing which ones to purchase. Any help is appreciated.
Every shade of red that exists on earth and then one that matches the body of water's common forage item.
scaleface reply :
I fish a 200 acre lake from a small john boat. I can hear rattle baits through the hull. I like to vertical jig them. Rattle traps have worked best for me. I can actually hear the fish hit it on the drop. Red Eyed Shads are cool. When they fall I hear them go tick tick,tick but have not done near as well with them as with Traps. Chrome and blue has worked best .
MassBass reply :
Anybody use the clackin rap?
KritterGitter reply :
I have a couple, not worth the time/money in my opinion, Ive had better success with other cranks. Not impressed at all...
Bankbeater reply :
Around here the colors that seem to work best are chrome/ blue back, smokey joe, white, craw pattern, and something bright like chart. I have traps, spots, and shads. Sometimes it is not the color the bass go after but the sound. Not all of the lipless cranks sound the same to the fish. I can throw a chrome/blue back trap, and the bass ignore it. I put on a chrome/blue back spot, and the bass tear it up.
Sam reply :
Chrome with blue back for clear skies.
Chrome with black back for cloudy and overcast skies.
That is as simple as you can get with the Rats.
greentrout reply :
Rattlin' Rapala Redfire Crawdad works in Texas...really works...
Old school basser...
tnbassfisher reply :
I've tried the Sexy Shad color on different baits with moderate success. What water clarity does everyone find they work best in?
papajoe222 reply :
On 1/8/2015 at 12:38 PM, tnbassfisher said:I've tried the Sexy Shad color on different baits with moderate success. What water clarity does everyone find they work best in?
It's not a color pattern that produces much for me. That leads me to think it would work better in waters that have some color to them. I fish a lot of clear lakes and unless there's an alge bloom, I rarely tie anything on in that color pattern.
IDUTBass reply :
Maybe I missed it but I didn see anyone mention the xcalibur xr50 lipless cranks. Definitely one of my favorite.
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