Hey, I did pretty well with shallow cranks today, and I hear there a great bait for fall. So my question is whats your favorite Shallow Crankbaits? The one I've been doing with is called a Lucky Craft Fat cb I believe (Small bill, fat body).

By the way, any great colors for fat shallow crankbaits? Such as black/blue is to the jig.

Lucky Craft RC 1.5, or 2.5 If you are going after bigger fish.

Bandit Footloose, A classic that catches alot of fish, but make sure to change the hooks on the older models.

Lucky Craft Flat Mini SR, A killer bait that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

Zoom Sweet P: Awesome lure.

Big M "M-Flat" (check the Tackle Making section for his stuff)

JawJacker Model B

Flat-Shad Rippit, and the Classic PT is killer in cold, clear water.

Zoom WEC Hicky and Mutt

Spro Little John

Rapala Shallow Fat Rap (you'll have to find these on eBay, they disc. them).

O.S.P. Blitz, Blitz Max, and HPF Spec 2

Bagley KB1 (with the small round lip)

There's many more, but these are some of my favs, and are all readily available and easy to get.

because of tropical storm hanna hanna all of the waters that i fish are very muddy for the time being.  lately i've been hooking some good ones on a strike king series 4s crank in black back chartruese.  that color shows up really well in the muddy water and the baits rattles are really loud.

Bomber Square A

Rapala DT Fat 03

Rapala Shallow Shad Rap

Norman Thin N

Manns -1 is my favorite.

The rapala shallow runner in shad color has probably been the most productive cb I have ever used. It's amazing how many fish I've caught with it.

RC 1.5 in Ghost Shad.

Spro Little John or Lucky Craft RC 1.5.

Bandit Footloose

Norman Thin N

Megabass Griffon Zero

Spro Little John

RC 1.5

Manns -1 is my favorite.

x 2 hands down

As im looking at all these shallow crankbaits, im seeing some in black. Anybody do any well with black crankbaits at dusk/night? Or am I better off sticking with a black or blackblue jitterbug/spinnerbait/chatterbait?

All of the above for me.  Yes I do very well on black cranks at night.  I will go and buy several cranks at a time and paint them all flat black and then put a coat of Devcon 2 Ton on top of the paint.  Works real good for me.

As im looking at all these shallow crankbaits, im seeing some in black. Anybody do any well with black crankbaits at dusk/night? Or am I better off sticking with a black or blackblue jitterbug/spinnerbait/chatterbait?

Black can work just as well in the middle of the day - in clear water or dirty.  I've had one in the rotation just about all year and it's been very consistent.  

Manns -1 is my favorite.

x 2 hands down

x3 . Great lure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bomber Square A in Threadfin Shad.

Rapala Shallow Shad Rap in Shad or Silver.

Rapala DT-4 in Silver/Blue or Parrot.

Norman Mad N in Lavender Shad.

Falcon

Bomber Square A

Sub Wart

Mann's -1

Rap DT Flat

I caught my PB largemouth on a Norman Fat Boy, bluegill pattern.

8-)

I have been slaying them on 3 cranks this so far this early fall:

RC1.5 Blue back/chartreuse

Megabass Griffon in a color called Crack Jungle (green back, clear sides, orange belly)

Megabass Cycloe Black and Yellow.  All are 0-4 foot divers and have caught 30 bass in the last 3 trips (dinks not included!)

I also love the Bandit footloose and 100 series, I just can't put down my megabass baits yet...

RC 1.5 or 2.5 depending on what they want, if they are really agressive then Luhr Jensen speed trap-  These two are all I need for shallow runners.

Mann's 1- and the Storm Sub-wart.

RC 1.5

Bandit 100

Mann's baby 1-

Allen

There are a lot of people saying the Mann's 1minus bait.  I have several and have never caught anything on them.  Aside from that, I have had several of mine have break too, their lips have fallen off, or cracked down the center... I dunno, maybe I got a few from a bad batch, but this has been a bad luck bait for me...

Bandit Footloose and 100 series here.