This visual check will also allow the skipper to find the correct trolling speed for optimum action. If you are trolling near vegetation, pick up periodically to make sure that no bit of weed is impairing your action. The Rapala is too perfectly balanced for hitchhiking debris. V. Cardinal rule number five deals with the care and handling of your Rapala. It deserves special consideration because of its precision balance and the basic material from which it is manufactured.
Balsa is light.
It gave him the specific gravity in the finished product very close to actual forage fish. But balsa is also soft. You'll probably catch lots of fish with it. But don't use the lure to lift your fish into the boat. Always spare your Rapala any undue strain.