if you had to pick 4 or 5 crank bait colors what would they be:

Id have to say:

sexy shad

red craw

fire-tiger

rootbeer

The one color i like to through is the Ghost minnow. It works very well for me. another color i have luck on is a red-craw. I use the red craw when its muddy, in shallow water.

Black/Chrome or Silver

Blue/Chrome or Silver

Black/Gold

Shad

Choose any other color you like and you are in business.

Of course, there are tons of other pretty colors, patterns, finishes The BaitMonkey says you should have and you should have them because he says so, but with those 4 plus another you can pretty much fish anywhere.

Blue back that fades to white on the belly.

White

Firetiger

Chrome blue

Chartreuse

Burnt orange

I carry no more than two colors. One is muted, like shad or bluegill, the other is louder, like firetiger. Of course, I could be 100% wrong but I just don't see more colors resulting in more fish for me over the course of a season.

I would have to say:

1. Firetiger

2. Blue back lighter color belly

3. Sexy Shad

4. Crawfish color or something red

5. Any other color you want

1. Chart. dark back

2. Crayfish

3. Chrome dark back

4. Ghost minnow

5. Sunfish

Allen

1. ghost minnow

1. ghost minnow

2. chartruee shad

3. white chartruese back

4. red black back

5. lavender shad

I primarily use:

White

Chartreuse

Rootbeer/Chartreuse

Black/Gold

Sunfish

1. Natural Perch

2. Gold

3. Firetiger

4. Red Craw

5. Chartreuse Craw

The colors that produce best for me are:

1-Chrome/Blue

2-Shad

3-Rapala Red Craw is the bomb

4-Sexy/Chartreuse Shad

5-Firetiger

Falcon

1. Bomber/LC - Pearl Shad

2. Baby Bass

3. Bluegill

4. Rootbeer

5. Norman's - Slick

Chrome

Pearl

Smokey Joe

Firetiger