The back end of this bait has a pronounced swing from side to side. With the extreme wobble of the banana shape, I honestly felt like the Scatter Rap Tail Dancer might have issues when dealing with dock pylons or timber. Designed for trolling, I did not expect the lure to have any rolling problems during high-speed retrieves, and it did not disappoint me.Īfter proving the Scatter Rap lip does what Rapala claims, I wanted to see how close I could get to cover before I got hung up. A slow crank or fast burn the bait ran as expected with excellent vibration. The Tail Dancer produced excellent wobbling action at all retrieve speeds. The package labels this bait as having a swim depth of 11 to 19 feet I have no doubt the Tail Dancer will obtain these depths while trolling. I found while casting, the Scatter Rap Tail Dancer consistently reaches 7 to 9 feet on 12-pound line.

This instant dive allows the bait to hit the strike zone faster and stay in the strike zone longer. As the line tightens at the beginning of a retrieve, the Scatter Rap starts diving. The Scatter Rap lip engages the water immediately. The Scatter Rap lip makes any crank bait dummy proof, simply cast and wind. Once I located bait fish and bass, casting parallel to shorelines at the proper depth and retrieve speed produced many strikes. The unique erratic action of the Rapala Scatter Rap Tail Dancer produces strikes with a basic cast and wind retrieve. To find a unique presentation for the over pressured waters I regularly tournament fish, I looked to the Rapala Scatter Rap Tail Dancer to give me an edge. The tail wobble generated by banana shape baits is also effective at drawing strikes from many other game fish species. The Rapala Scatter Rap Tail Dancer, like many banana style baits, is designed to draw strikes from walleye while trolling the bait behind a boat. This opposing direction migration can be as wide as 24 inches. The opposing direction shift gives the appearance of fleeing something an angler normally has to use deflection to generate. During a retrieve, the Scatter Rap lipped baits will migrate left or right and then seemingly for no reason drive quickly the other direction. you don't even have to bounce it off cover just vary your retrieve and bam fish on.The unique Scatter Rap lip design causes baits to dart side to side mimicking the habits of fleeing bait fish. Man was I wrong, this lure does exactly what it is suppose to. Good lure, would highly recommend buying on for your self.Ĭomments: At first I didn't think that I would have any luck with this lure. But, after using this lure fairly extensively, when it works, it works great! When it isn't the best lure to use, you can still have a fish on due to the evasive action produced by the lip. My very first cast with this lure, I nailed a trophy brook trout in a stream. Rapala Scatter RapĬomments: I have one of these and the second outing with it the bill snapped off, I would say do not buyĬomments: My luck with this lure varies quite a bit. Armed with two VMC Black Nickel hooks and offered in a number of proven colors, the Rapala Scatter Rap Countdown generates reaction strikes like never before. Whether the fish are suspended at the weed tops or holding on bottom structure, the Scatter Rap CountDown can get you to them consistently. The Rapala Scatter Rap Countdown also sinks at a reliable one-foot-per second rate that allows you to easily target bass at any depth. By simply varying your retrieve speed from slow to fast, you can get the Scatter Rap Countdown to kick out and hunt to the side, generating vicious reaction strikes. That’s exactly the idea behind the new Rapala Scatter Rap Countdown and the complete Scatter Rap line of baits. It’s going try to scatter in all directions to get away. If a baitfish is getting chased by a predator, it’s not going to swim away in a straight line.

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