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Rapala (/ ˈ r æ p ə l ɑː / RAP-ə-lah) [1] is a fishing product manufacturing company based in Finland. It was founded in 1936 by Lauri Rapala, who is credited for creating the world's first floating minnow lure carved from cork with a shoemaker's knife, covered with chocolate candy bar wrappers and melted photography film negatives, for a protective outer coating. [2]
Lauri Rapala (1905–1974) was a Finnish fisherman, inventor and the founder of Rapala-Normark Group, the world's largest fishing lure and tackle producer. He died in 1974 at the age of 69. During the course of his life, he married once and fathered seven children. [1]
Today, the original floater is made in seven different sizes and fourteen different colors. It can be found in many anglers' tackle boxes, and is the best-selling lure Rapala makes, and possibly best-selling in the world. The lure, when retrieved, swims with an action that mimics that of a wounded baitfish.
Copper flash (Rapala pheretima petosiris) (Hewitson, [1863]) Myanmar flash (Rapala hades) (de Niceville, 1895) Malayan red flash (Rapala damona) Swinhoe, 1890; Common red flash (Rapala iarbus iarbus) (Fabricius, 1787) Slate flash (Rapala manea schistacea) (Moore, 1879) Scarce shot flash (Rapala scintilla scintilla) de Niceville, 1890
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