What are some of your go to crankbaits and favorite colors?

Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap - Chartruese Shiner and Chrome Blue

 

Rapala DT - Perch or Bluegill colors

 

Rapala Shad Rap - Any natural looking baitfish color

 

Storm Wiggle Wart - Any craw color

 

Mann's Baby 1- - I haven't found a color that doesn't work for this bait

All depends on where in the water column I want to target. Given that I'm a Rapala fan, my go-to cranks are

Jointed Shallow Shad-Rap

DT-4

DT-6

Original Shad-Rap

Lipless Rattlin' Rap

 

Colors: Mostly natural - baby bass, bluegill, crawdad, pumpkinseed, perch. Though I do have a couple others - firetiger and bleeding olive shiner.

Berkley Warpig (Gilly or Perch color)

 

Berkley Pitbull/Squarebull (Gilly or Chartruse/Black color)

 

Rebel Bluegill (Natural or Albino)

 

Strike King Redeye Shad

wiGGGGGLeeeee WART!

Normans Deep Little N

Anything from 6th Sense (thank you A-jay for introducing me to the Curve 55)

Luhr Jensen Speed Trap

Yo Zuri Rattlin Vibe

Strike King KVD Shallow and 1.5

 

Most of my colors are browns, craws, greens, bluegill-perch with a smattering of reds and shads thrown in.

 

DT-6 Demon. Solid producer

 

SK Squarebills, mostly craw colors to bounce off stumps and trees in the river. Change them junk hooks out though

Lipped:

Sixth Sense Curve 55

Berkley Bad Shad

Strike King 3XD, 5XD

Sixth Sense Cloud 9 - size C6 or C10

 

Lipless:

Strike King Red Eye Shad

Lucky Craft LV 500

Berkley Warpig

Sebile Flatt Shad

 

 

Lipless:

Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad, 1/4oz-1/2oz

Rat-L-Trap in Perch, 1/4oz

 

Squarebill:

KVD 1.5, Black/Chart and Delta Red

KVD 2.5, Gizzard Shad

 

KVD Sexy Shad 1.5 square bill with rattles is at the top of the list.

 

Baby 1-  gold or chrome.

Rattletrap--gold,chrome or red.

Bomber square bill--any and all colors.

I have good luck with the lipless lucky crafts 

From top to bottom and then some;

Mann's Baby 1-

Norman Thin-N      Norman Fat Boy

SK 1.5 Flat Side

KVD Silent Deep Square Bill

Fat free Shad     Deep Little N

Norman DD14

Norman DD22

SK Red Eye Shad

Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap-Any of the chromes

Spro Fat John Squarebill -Cell Mate or Spring Craw

Spro Little John and Little John MD -Cell Mate,Rootbeer Chartreuse or Fire Craw

Spro Rockcrawler -Phantom brown or green

Rebel deep wee r

Rebel wee r

 

Rebel deep teeny r

 

Rebel teeny r

 

On occasion Norman deep baby n

Mann’s 1 minus - brown craw

Mann’s baby 1 minus - gray ghost, fire shad, and brown craw. 

Cordell big o - smokey joe

Cordell super spot - copper craw, chrome w/ blue back. 

Rat-L-Trap - chrome w/ blue back, gold w/ black back, smokey joe, orange crawdad. 

Top 5 for the past decade:

LC RC 1.5

Bandit 100 or 200

Rebel Deep Wee-R

Mann's Baby 1-

SK 5 series silent

 

 

Allen

 

Rogers Big Jim 

 Rapala Fat Raps 

Storm Wiggle Warts 

Rapala Crankin Raps

Rebel Deep Wee R's 

Bomber Model A's'

Norman Deep Little N's 

Berkely Dredgers

Strike King Red Eye Shads

Luhr Jensen Speed Traps

Lucky Craft BDS 3&4’s

 

Hard to beat a bandit. In red craw or chartreuse rootbeer 

Lucky Craft RC 1.5 and 2.5

Zoom WEC E1, Wobbler, Hickey

XCalibur XCS 100 and 200

Lucky Craft Fat BDS 1 and 2

Spro Rk Crawler 55

Megabass SM X Spriggan

Bandit 100 and 200-Mistake

Strike King 1.5-River Minnow, Green Gizzard Shad

Strike King HTC 1.5-Blue Gizzard Shad

Strike King 5XD and 6XD-Green Gizzard Shad

Wiggle Wart-craw colors

Strike King RES 2 Tap-Rayburn Red, Chrome Black, Green Gizzard Shad

Shad Rap #5- bluegill, crawdad, silver/black

 

I have waaaaay too many SPRO cranks to list.  My absolute favorite is an Original Little John in Cell Mate (computer chip bill).  It absolutely whacks everything that swims in St Clair when we go in late May.  

19 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

All depends on where in the water column I want to target. Given that I'm a Rapala fan, my go-to cranks are

Jointed Shallow Shad-Rap

DT-4

DT-6

Original Shad-Rap

Lipless Rattlin' Rap

 

Colors: Mostly natural - baby bass, bluegill, crawdad, pumpkinseed, perch. Though I do have a couple others - firetiger and bleeding olive shiner.

I love the DT series from rapala.

 

Strike King 1.5 Squarebill-- perch and bluegill

Rapala DT 10 -- Bluegill

Rattletrap--Red Craw

 

By far on the lakes I fish the Squarebill just seems to be the one that they can't resist all year round.  So I don't really stray from it very often.