All I meant by Americans is that they probably sell mostly to Americans since they have a storefront in the U.S. and shipping costs outside make it less efficient for non-U.S. to shop from their store.  Also all their videos address American locations, was nothing against non-Americans.  

Yep, dozens and dozens of threads about copies...and that's just Senkos, lol. Unless it's an OG floater, Rapala doesn't make much that turns my screws. 
 

BTW, I'm retired from moderating. 

23 minutes ago, J Francho said:

 

BTW, I'm retired from moderating. 

 

Did you lose your re-election?

 

Allen

The tribe has spoken.  

So just saw from the same person, it’s the dolive beaver.  He posted a pic and it is pretty blatant imo. I tried to share a screenshot of the pic but guess I’d have to do the old school photobucket url link.

 

On 5/9/2023 at 2:13 AM, Zage said:

Just saw an IG post from the owner of a popular JDM site (trying to follow the rules here and not come off as promoting the site) where apparently Rapala has done some sort of blatant rip-off of a bait.  I’m too dam curious I got to figure it out, anyone have any idea what jdm lure rapala is copying?

Supposedly a vision 110 knockoff to my understanding. Saw the prototype laying on a pro’s deck reposted on social media

On 5/10/2023 at 12:01 AM, Zage said:

So just saw from the same person, it’s the dolive beaver.  He posted a pic and it is pretty blatant imo. I tried to share a screenshot of the pic but guess I’d have to do the old school photobucket url link.

 

Saw this too. Rapala should stick to the hard baits... they legit copied 1:1 on this one and it is a pretty unique profile... 

Check rapalas IG, sad to see a company like rapala do such a shameless knockoff.  No this doesn’t fall under “all baits are derivative/ there’s nothing original anymore”.  

Just now, Zage said:

Check rapalas IG, sad to see a company like rapala do such a shameless knockoff.  No this doesn’t fall under “all baits are derivative/ there’s nothing original anymore”.  

That said, I’ll be buying a few packs

Market Share.

On 5/9/2023 at 2:47 PM, waymont said:

I bet it's a Megabass 110 ripoff

I'd buy it

It is.  But just because it looks like a 110 doesn't mean it will fish like a 110.