Interesting category for a top water / sub surface category in that minus - 1 wake crank baits roll and wobble so along with their belly being seen by bass below - they also flash their sides and top to a greater degree than say a popper where you can get by mainly with a pearl colored bottom .  For a minus - 1 wake crank ( Bandit Footloose , Mann's Minus - 1 , Storm Arashi Wake , etc. ) I think mainly three to four color schemes : Bluegill , Shad and Craw .  Specifically - Firetiger / Chartreause Shad for stained water , natural shad colors for clear water and brown / orange  to red craw (depending on time of year) . Lastly a wild card chrome / blue color would round out the offering . * As water cools now through the Fall the minus -1 wake crank bite could be a lot of fun as bass chase shad  into the shallows . Your thoughts on favorite minus - 1 wake crank colors and baits ?

Minus -1 for me; like the chrome/blue, and a chartreuse color.

Traditionaly , the Bandit Footloose and Mann's Minus -1 series have been the popular choices in the "minus - 1 wake crank" nationally available category ... Newer offerings such as :  Rapala's DT Fat 1 , Storm's Arashi Waking Crank and Strike King's XS1 offer good performance as well .

Spring through late Fall when temps are above 50 degrees are ideal for a wake crank and can potentially be used with BETTER success any where you would previously have used a spinner bait in the upper water column ...

Acadamy makes a good one for cheap. River2sea v-joint minnow wake is a nice small jointed option that swims well

I love the manns 1 minus series, I use it to fish shallows and to buzz over weed beds but for wake baiting, it is different. For that I like to use the Manns Waker Elite, it is discontinued but Mr. Lanny Deal hooked me up with some old stock and I got enough to last quite awhile now. Those only dive 3" and they have a big body so they will create a wake at much faster speeds than other wake baits. Speed is the deal for using wake baits in summer and then in the fall when slower works better then I use the Rapala DT Fat 1 and a Storm Sub Wart which is also discontinued.

Storm Sub Wart which is also discontinued.

 

 

I've got one left... I'd sure like to find a couple more!

 

 

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