Hey guys so like the post says, I will soon be getting a set of Spro Little Johns in all the different depths. i would like to have the same color in Little John all the way to the Little John DD. That way I can fish all depths with the same colors. What would you consider must have colors, and in what conditions would you use them?

 

So far I am thinking cellmate, citrus shad, and chart blue. I pretty much always fish in stained water, so I was thinking cellmate on cloudy days, citrus shad on sunny days, and chart blue when the water is more muddy than stained. I will eventually probably pick some craw cranks up but for now I am not really going to worry with them as I mainly want to start with colors I can use year round. Thanks for the suggestions!

 

Edit: Would you consider Cell Mate to be a good stained water color btw? I usually have 1-1.5feet of visibility if that helps.

If you have crappie in your home lake, then definitely get one in Cell Mate. 

If you have crappie in your home lake, then definitely get one in Cell Mate. 

thanks I do, ill have to get one then haha. So I was reading a few different articles that John Crews had done talking about the different colors and he says in some that cell mate is a great stained color and then in the others he says it is great in clear water. So would you take that as you can use it in either? I like the looks of it, I just wasnt sure how well it would do with low visibility in stained water

Cell mate cell mate craw and cell mate

Cell mate cell mate craw and cell mate

Cool thanks. Online it is a bit hard to see exactly what color cell mate is so I wasnt sure about stained water. Some pictures look like a chart hue is on it and some make it look plain white. I will for sure have to pick it up in that case.

As the other guys said, Cell Mate. It does have a chartreuse hue, some baits are a little more "chartreusey" than others. Most of the time they are pretty close though. I have quite a few Spro cranks myself and I think Cell Mate is my favorite color of theirs. Although Nasty Shad is good as well and I've just recently started trying the Chrome Olive color.

Cool thanks guys for all the replies! Looks like I will be getting cell mate, citrus shad, and chart blue then.  I will probably get them in the MD, Baby DD, and DD as well if I like how the little john works. I am sure that I will, but I still want to hold off on buying it until I know for sure. Thanks again!

I have had the best luck with these colors, most work well in either clear or stained water, old glory, spooky nasty, and chrome olive,   not sure they make these in all sizes but they have produced for me.

I second the color Spooky Nasty.

Cellmate, black back/chartruese, and Nasty shad.

Hey guys thanks for all the replies again. I ended up getting one little john in citrus shad. We boated 12 fish today and the little john counted for 9 of them. I am going tonight to pick up a few more colors. I know I am getting cellmate, and I am not sure what the third color I will get will be, because I dont know what all else the store has. I hope to buy what I can without ordering online.

thanks I do, ill have to get one then haha. So I was reading a few different articles that John Crews had done talking about the different colors and he says in some that cell mate is a great stained color and then in the others he says it is great in clear water. So would you take that as you can use it in either? I like the looks of it, I just wasnt sure how well it would do with low visibility in stained water

I would definitely feel comfortable fishing the cell mate pattern in both...it really is unique. The bait has a soft knocker that should serve well.

I would definitely feel comfortable fishing the cell mate pattern in both...it really is unique. The bait has a soft knocker that should serve well.

Awesome thanks! So far I have picked up citrus shad and cell mate in both the little john and the md. In a few weeks Im going to get them in the baby dd as well

Cell mate, spooky nasty, nasty shad, spooky shad, citrus shad, chartreuse nasty.