![]() I have bought and used over 30 of these baits.Ĭomments: Great bait in the winter and spring. I have not experienced the broken bills or splitting that others have complained about. I can fish them through tree tops and rarely get hung up. These should be tank tested better.Ĭomments: I have used these for the last two years. My older DT 6 baits float like they should. Never know if they'll float or not.Ĭomments: Recently purchased 2 DT 6 Demon Rapala baits that sink like a rock. sucks that it's a crap shoot buying these. Fortunately the DT series is still commanding a decent price on eBay so I have a place to jettison my 40 or 50 extra lures which keeps me from disliking them even more.Ĭomments: I also bought 3 DT10 and they all sank so I swapped hooks out to singles and they now float. ![]() I still use the Husky Jerks and I certainly miss the DT Thugs but any shallow cranking in my snag and rock filled local river is now being very successfully fulfilled by some other crankbaits. I have had a full compliment of various issues to know that the problems lie with the product and not the user. There's a reason Jacob wheeler wins a lot throwing the DT 6 and DT 10.Ĭomments: I used the dt-6 a lot on the lake and it produced fish but my only complaint is that they would crack right behind the bill after a couple of uses.Ĭomments: Have totally given up on the Rapala DT Series (especially the DT 6's) due to their lack of durability. The trade off is they catch fish like no other. You absolutely can not slap these on the water or inaccurately cast or they will crack. I've only had one I'll break off and it's because I over casted and hit a concrete bridge piling. ![]() Only have rapala and strike king crankbaits. I have not experienced the buoyancy issues noted in the other reviews yet.Ĭomments: I fish these all the time. I have had lips pull out, baits split when slapping the water to remove grass or split with a ding on a dock or bridge. There's a reason these are one of the most commonly used crankbaits among pro fishermen and it's not because they smack against the water to knock grass off of them well.Ĭomments: DT series certainly catch fish for me but they come at a price. If you are using a wooden crankbait and you're smacking it against the water to remove grass then you should expect to break one now and again. Those things are what makes wooden baits cost more than plastic baits. The action of each bait is slightly different from one to the next. Bills are not attached to wood as securely as they are to plastic either. Each one has slightly different buoyancy, hardness, weight, etc. RapalaĬomments: Reading through the comments, it seems so people don't understand a crankbait made of wood is not a crankbait made of plastic. Tediously worked into the final cosmetics of Ike's Custom Ink DT-Series, the reflective dust particles again aimed to emulate actual baitfish.Ĭlick Hereto check out video of 2003 Bassmaster Classic Champ and Rapala pro, Michael "Ike" Iaconelli discussing the new custom colors he created for the Rapala Ike's Custom Ink DT Series Crankbaits. Not just any glitter, but super fine sprinkles that actually add depth to the appearance of the lure. Pearly finishes are native to numerous baitfish species, namely shad.Īnd for the third pivotal ingredient, Ike went super sparkly… with glitter. Next, Ike had Rapala polish the finishes like the translucent candy apple red on a ’57 Chevy. The subtler colors can be fantastically effective when bass aren’t attacking conventional patterns, too. Typical crankbait colors, says Ike, sometimes need to be toned down, made more subtle to mirror reality. Before these baits came along, Ike used to "bake them in the sun" on his Toyota’s dashboard, even line his windowsills with baits for months to get that lifelike, muted skin tone. There are three key traits that make the Rapala Ike's Custom Ink DT-Series more natural and more fresh-to-the-fish than anything else with treble hooks and a bill.įirst, it’s their purposefully muted colors. Artisan bass angler Mike “Ike” Iaconelli has offered his unique talents to assist in the development of a masterpiece series of lures that are destined for tournament success - the Rapala Ike's Custom Ink DT Series Crankbaits. The "ink," as the street calls these permanent markings, are individual works of art, indeed.
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