19 minutes ago, endless said:

so is chartreuse still a great choice or or not so great deep? 

Yes .   I use firetiger a lot . Often I select  color  by  what becomes untangled first .

Yellow perch

The only way you will know how the rod performs with various crankbaits is go fishing and try them.

Caution: the bait monkey invented crank baits.

Colors can be confusing way too many choices.

Where I fish the water clarity is good and both LMB and Smallmouth are sight feeders so using colors similar to the Threadfin Shad baitfish and crawdads are high percentage colors; ghost pearl white with silver stripes and dark brown/black with red. The problem is nearly every color will catch some bass, each lake will have it's predominate color.

Tom

23 hours ago, WRB said:

The only way you will know how the rod performs with various crankbaits is go fishing and try them.

Caution: the bait monkey invented crank baits.

Colors can be confusing way too many choices.

Where I fish the water clarity is good and both LMB and Smallmouth are sight feeders so using colors similar to the Threadfin Shad baitfish and crawdads are high percentage colors; ghost pearl white with silver stripes and dark brown/black with red. The problem is nearly every color will catch some bass, each lake will have it's predominate color.

Tom

Hopefully the rod does well if not I guess I’ll try my other rods. I need to get another reel so I can switch my Curado back to my Crucial rod.

 

I've had luck at the Lake by the house with Chartreuse. I haven’t tried any other color choice like Bluegill. The lake as I know does not have any shad and their not sure if will stick any from what I’ve read.

 

looking at 6th Sense man they got some beautiful color choices but not in all depth far as lures...

16 minutes ago, endless said:

The lake as I know does not have any shad and their not sure if will stick any from what I’ve read.

Doesnt make a bit of difference , shad patterns  still looks like   baitfish .  

24 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Doesnt make a bit of difference , shad patterns  still looks like   baitfish .  

I didn’t think so but was wondering should I target other bait fish like bluegills, crappie.. 

 

I was looking at this one

That looks like s good one . I have a lot of success on baits with a flash of chartreuse like that one . My all time favorite squarebill has a color scheme very similar .

i really like the 10xd and duo g87

The 6XD paid off!!

Looks like your rod worked ok!

Tom

6XD is a good staple but I'm getting away from them now.  It's old having to tune almost every one out of the box because it wants to run to one side or the other and they pull harder than others out there.  

 

I like the Profound Z Boss series and the 6th Sense Cloud series.  Much better quality crankbaits.

I got some 6th sense coming... hopefully be here tonight or tomorrow. This one seems to run fine. 

 

WRB- it did pretty well... the Dredger’s was noticeable though.. 

 

the 6XD and DD22 was fine.. 

Y’all talked me into it!!

Ive been working on my deep cranking skills the past few years, and because there are so many brands out there and I am sure most are good, I have tried to minimize by box to the ones I have done well with and have confidence in, and also the ones that have been around the longest, cause they still make em and sell em for a reason. People buy them.

 

I use the Strike King XD series both silent and rattling as my go to because Its what most people use and they flat out work. I like one bright color, and one in a white color but not sure color matters all that much.

 

Bomber #7A is an awesome crankbait. Has a tighter action, the bill dance citrus shad and firetiger both seem to work well and the brown craw color.

 

The Norman DD 22, and my favorite lately is the Rapala DT 16 which you can get down deeper if you need it by either long lining, or using 8lb test fluoro. Something about the Finesse action seems to make it work well when sometimes they won't hit the others.

 

I know the Berkley cranks are popular as mentioned, and the Spro as well. They are all good options. 

 

Then the bigger shad raps are also good baits not just for the cold.....I like throwin them on spinning gear and light line, here in florida it gives them a different look I think. 

If I had to choose one it would be the rapala dt. Have caught em pretty good on the strike king XD as well. Haven't used a lot of them tho as I seem to not do much deep cranking 

Once I tried the dredgers I sold 14 other deep divers - seems with Fritts help Berkley hit a home run for me.