Couple new crankbait colors I painted up after work today.  The pink one is one the GF asked for, the other one was going for a "Mad Bluegill" type color.  Forgot to paint the gill on that one, but it was basically a test run to see how I liked it anyways.  Any suggestions for the BG one?  I wanted to keep it similar to a BG, but a little bit more colorfully darker, if that makes sense.  Any suggestions on different color tones for that one?

If you want your darker colors to stand out more and pop not just kinda blend ...lay your base green down then where you are gonna do your vertical stripes then hit the stripe part with a dark gold or dark sliver ... Then when you do your dark blue for the stripe try dark blue translucent over that ... Hope that make sense haha... Good luck

Exactly the kind of help I was looking for with colors. I'll give it a try, thanks!

I like the bluegill bait, if I were to add anything, it would be a tiny amount on chartreuse color to it somewhere.

I like the pink bait. I think a pink belly, purple back, chartreuse stripe would be a good looking bait.