Rapala Countdown Sinking Lures
Sizes Available:
3cm - 4g: Runs 0.6-0.9 m
5cm 0 5g: Runs 0.9-1.8 m
7cm - 8g : Runs 1.5-2.4 m
9cm - 12g : Runs 2.1-3.0 m
11cm - 16g: Runs 2.7-3.9 m
The legendary Rapala Countdown® lure was introduced back in the 60s and is still included among the favorites of professional and casual anglers alike.
The gravity defying body of the Countdown sinks, at a foot per second, to your desired depth allowing you to repeatedly reach and retrieve without rising out of the strike zone.
With this lure, you can find fish quickly and consistently throughout the water column, whether they’re at the weed tops or holding bottom.
Consistently reach suspended fish at any depth with the Countdown.
The controlled depth technique was introduced to the world with this lure, and to this day is the standard by which all others are compared.
Whether the fish are suspending at certain depths, at the weed tops or on the bottom, the Countdown can get you to them consistently.
Trolled or cast, this weighted balsa lure swims with a slow-rolling Rapala action.
Outfitted with VMC® black nickel hooks, each lure is hand-tuned and tank-tested to swim perfectly right out of the box.
Custom Swimming Action
Controlled Depth Sinking Rate
Large Size Range
VMC Black Nickel Hooks
Hand Tuned & Tank Tested
How to Fish
To use the Countdown method, follow these simple steps: immediately after casting, take up any slack line and begin counting just as the Countdown strikes the water.
A good uniform way to count is “one thousand one...one thousand two...one thousand three..."
Keep counting until the lure has settled on the bottom or has found a resting place in the weeds.
The line will go slack at this point. Remember the count at this moment.
Then, by reducing the count by one or two numbers on subsequent retrieves and picking up the lure with your reel, the Countdown will stay just above the weeds or off the bottom.
When fishing streams with the Countdown, cast quartering upstream to allow the lure to sink without tension on the line and start reeling when you've reached the desired depth.
