X-Rap Tropical Colours!

Look what landed on my doorstep....

4 cute little X-Rap 8cm minnows in the Tropical Colours! Woohoo!

XR08 TYBR (Tropical Yellow Barb)

XR08 TRCN (Tropical Red Channa)

XR08 TGCL (Tropical Green Cichla)

XR08 TBRB (Tropical Blue Rasbora)

Folks who attended the Rapala Seminar in Kuala Lumpur in May'10 would have seen the creative designs of Ming. J. Liu (affectionately known as Mingmon in local forums), an industrial designer with a big passion for luring.

Ming was the grand prize winner of the Rapala Lure Design contest some time back where his eye-catching designs were selected to be imprinted on some limited number of X-Rap 8cms produced specially for the Asia Pacific region only.

The Ming man himself with a handsome Peacock Bass on XR08 TGCL (Photo source: Facebook)

Ming's designs depicted species of fish commonly found in Malaysian waters (perhaps with the exception of the Peacock Bass, which is an introduced specie) and are limited to sell only in South-east Asia as I understand from the folks at Rapala VMC Asia Pacific.

So for anglers living outside Singapore & Malaysia, if you want one of these, you better make some new buddies here over this side of the world to get them to buy one for you. ;)

Of course, you could also borrow, beg or pinch one if you see them in your mate's tacklebox. Happy fishing!

Archer fish couldn't resist the Yellow Barb