I get them tomorrow 
Love the pink one
They say they swim 12m deep 40ft
Herewith my test report on these
X-Rap 40 ReportI was quite excited when I got the new X-Rap 40’s to test this season as I have always been a big fan of the X-Rap 30’s.
I used gear equipped with 50lb (24Kg) line and drags set to 8kg on strike.
I put 6m of 0.80 Suffix zippy leader line connected to the main line with a double fig.8 knot.
I connected the 0.80 leader directly to the X-Rap 40 using an improved fig.8 knot and no steel wire.
I ran 2 rigs like with the X-Rap 40’s from the two corner positions on my boat in a mixed spread along with 5 Konas for almost all my trips with the exception of 3 Marlin Specific trips where I ran large Konas in these positions. So we tested over 18 trips averaging 8hrs per trip, with and average of 100km travelled per trip.
I ran one 35m behind the boat and the other 30m behind the boat.
The total test time was around 144hrs and 1800km.
We had all kinds of weather and conditions during this time and some really strong winds on certain days and some big swells and some very fast currents were encountered, so I am satisfied that these lures were put through their paces and thoroughly tested.
Going head into the strong currents the 40s never popped even once so a big improvement over the 30s which would most certainly have popped out a few times.
Coming back in some 3.5-4.0m swells in a following sea with the boat surging forward they never popped, with the 30s I would have to slow down but the 40s ran true and never popped.
We trolled at speeds from 6 knots up to 12 knots and in all conditions the 40s ran true.
The 40s have a serious pull on them and there is no ways that one could run them on 30lb rigs with 5Kg drags over 7 knots as they would have pulled line from the reels, so the 50lb rigs are best suited for trolling these lures.
I was really hoping to get some good Yellowfin Tuna on the 40s, as the 30s have produced me some really great Tuna over the years but we did not see one Tuna this season.
It must be noted that weather conditions this season were not normal and we still have not got the warm waters which we are accustomed to this time of year and so fishing was well below average and one had to travel far and work hard to get fish.
We caught a lot of Dorado on the 40s and several large size Bonnies.
One thing I can say that on several days we were the only boat at the Marina to bring back Dorado when all the other boats were only trolling konas we brought back Dorado all caught on the X-Rap 40s.
Another thing I noticed is that at slower speeds the X-Raps did not produce any fish and all the fish we caught on the X-Raps were caught trolling at 8-9 knots.
Of the 6 colours I tested only the pink and the red head produced fish.
As a rule I usually only run X-Raps in the cooler months specifically for Yellowfin, but I learnt a good lesson this summer running them as they often caught me the fish when nothing else was working,
ConclusionThe X-Rap 40s troll well in all conditions and like to be pulled fast, the hooks are bigger than on the 30s and this seemed to be a big advantage as all the fish we hooked were hooked properly with both hooks. I like these 40s and will definitely be running them in the future on my boat, they are definitely suited to a mixed spread with konas and bullets. I am dying to try them in the cooler months when the bigger Tuna are around.
