Fishing World

CARVING A LEGEND

It all began with a hungry Finnish guy and a carving knife. As Lauri Rapala fished the waters of Finland’s Lake Paijanne, he quietly rowed and watched. And what he saw was how hungry predator fish would dart into a school of minnows and attack the one that swam with a slightly off-center wobble. Over and over again.

Lauri realised that if he could craft a lure that mimicked the movements of a wounded minnow, he could catch more fish, earn more money, and not

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