I have the regular Rat in all of the colors and have done really well with them, especialy the brown and the tan. We caught many fish on them in the five to seven pound range this past year. I have found with what i would describe as a SLOW erratic retreive, where the bait will dive and with a very brief pause just before it reaches the surface get it going slowly again(continued throughout the retrieve). That retrieve has been what has produced most all my Rat fish throughout the year and they really crush it. We even got bit on it this past spring in forty degree water.
Good Luck, Bill Q.