I see in an earlier post you covered deep cranks.    

   My question is what colors are Best for deep cranking?

I prefer a blue/silver combination.

I've had good results with perch, hot mustard and red craw.

Chartruese w/ blue back, shad, pearl white.

My color choice would depend on water clarity and sunlight.

I do use a few others but the colors above are my go to color combos.

My choice depends on water clarity and season, but my most productive colors have been rootbeer and chartreuse/blue back.

My all time favorite is what luhr Jensen called a clear water flash which they no longer make I probibly have the last dozen in existance. I am also fond of the Tennessee shad color brown back white or silver belly.

I like to throw something with chartuese in it.

Water clarity is the main factor with color selection(I believe this to be true with all lures) along with where or what you are fishing.

shad, yellow black back, chrome blue back, all white, all black, gold green back, blue back chart,

A red craw pattern, a shad pattern, and a chartreuse pattern.  

I use several color patterns.A red craw pattern,a darker brown w/burnt orange craw,shad patterns in silver/black,silver/blue,chartreuse/blue,and a bream/perch color pattern.

Taking a couple of factors into consideration, I'm going to say it doesn't matter. I think most would consider anything over 15' to be deep cranking. In the majority of bass water, clarity will prevent any but the longer wavelengths of light from reaching those depths. Not many colors will actual be percieved as colors.

Im ny opinion, vibration and sound would be the most important factors to consider for deep cranking, and these factors would be the ones to be experimented with, rather than colors.

Just my fifth of dimes worth. I don't do much deep cranking.

Cheers,

GK    

I tend to agree with Ghoti. We always here how colors turn to shades of gray after a certain depth. It makes sense that sound would be a more important factor.

Nice post Gary.

Falcon

I agree with Maltese and Ghoti quite a bit.  In colder water I like a Bomber Fat Free Shad in Rootbeer float color and in warmer water I like a Norman DD22 in Rootbeer color.  Both colors are pretty much exactly the same but I like the tighter wobble of the Bomber with the waters colder.  Ill also throw in the DD22 Rootbeer suspending model occasionally.  I like the natural hues of the rootbeer color cranks alot.

JMHO

DannyG