What Is Your Favorite Crank Bait Color 2025

WPCfishing reply :

Doesn't matter which style crank or depth... Just name your favorite color crank!

I like Tennessee Shad

scaleface reply :

Being the waters I fish are usually stained green , deep diving cranks doesnt make much difference to me. I just use whatever tickles my fancy at the time. Shallow cranks I definitely like a bluegill imitator with a good amount of yellow on it . Like the one second from the bottom. Thats a real nice color that the bass inhale.

ww2farmer reply :

Varies by style

Squarebills: bluegill

Lipless: Red craw

Mid + deep depth: chart.sexy shad.

Alonerankin2 reply :

Clear, lol

No I like the bass & gill colors as well as a gold

Also, Chartruse & Black back..

*Hank reply :

Sexy shad is #1 for me.

everythingthatswims reply :

Green gizzard shad, and rootbeer

southernson1989 reply :

bluegill

Montanaro reply :

Rootbeer

CRANKENSTIEN reply :

Sk green gizzard. And rapala shad.

iabass8 reply :

LC American Shad

Shockwave reply :

I've done well with black and gold in dirty water.

ABW reply :

If it has the name Megabass on it then all of them.

Generally speaking, Red Craw, Sexy shad, Bluegill

Jrob78 reply :

TO Shad

Senko lover reply :

Crankbait: sexy shad. Lipless: red

papajoe222 reply :

Fat Free Shad's Tenn. Shad and Strike King's Sexy Shad have been my best producers for the last few seasons.

wytstang reply :

Helsinki from Rapala

RoLo reply :

I really have no favorite crankbait color, but focus more on the pattern.

I like to see a distinct color transition along the lateral line, a finish with defined scalation

and if possible a 'shoulder dot' like a shad, herring, alewife ~ ~

Roger

McKinneyLonghorn reply :

The one I catch the most fish on is a custom-painted black and blue wakebait. It works great in stained to muddy water and is great at night because of not only the color but also the wide wobble and loud rattles. The second best color I use is matte firetiger.

bigturtle reply :

Purple, pink and yellow.

iceintheveins reply :

Bluegill for clear, fire tiger for stained/murky.

the reel ess reply :

I like the shad patterns but with something a little different.: A purple back or smokey color. Something to set it apart from the millions of shad out there. But lately, I'm fishing a place with gold shiners and I look for a gold/black pattern.

AND CRAWFISH!!!

BW208 reply :

red/black OR shad

IndyGlockMan reply :

Bluegill patterns seem to work best around here.

I've been killing them on KVD 1.5 in Bluegill and Rapala shallow diver in bluegill for the past week or two.

primetime reply :

For some reason they all seem to have some chartreuse in them even if a touch, but I like to use a spike it chart marker and put a stripe on each side of all crankbaits when water is not crystal clear, or when bream are the foodsource..Right now I am throwing all chart/blue or chart/blacks in stained water with weeds.

Slipknot_Fan666 reply :

I don't believe I've ever caught a bass off of a crankbaits, so I guess I don't have a favorite color. I only use one about once or twice a year.

primetime reply :

I actually like clear cranks or topwaters in very clear water as I can fish a bigger bait and fish have a hard time telling the size since it is clear..A clear chug bug or clear rattle trap is killer for me a times when water is crystal clear in rivers, and I need lighter line...Don't sleep on translucent baits, the Sebile Flatt SHad Series has some great clear colors.

cgolf reply :

Bandit 100 - Mad cow looks cool and catches smallies

Deep divers - fire tiger both clear and stained water and bluegill in clear water.

Clear water shallow baits sexy shad variations

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