what i know is limited mostly to cumberland. moonlit nights i throw a bandit 200 series in the shad color, also on a moonlit night (on a couple of specific banks) a bomber model a in red crawfish. on dark nights or right before sunup i throw a bandit 200 series in root beer color. these are just confidence colors for me, ive had my tail whooped pretty bad on the same night in the same boat with the other guy throwing something completely opposite, but night in and night out these colors produce for me. last night after midnight i was casting the bandit for stripers and caught a 4.5lb sm, a 3lb lm and a 15 inch ky all on a 50 yd stretch of bank, but the shad were there in droves so the shad color was my go to bait, i probably wouldnt have thrown the craw color or the root beer color under those circumstances, but i wouldnt say they wouldnt have caught fish either. sweetwater was spot on about fishing/hitting the cover, if you can bounce it of something like a big rock and then killit for a count of 5 your strike rates goes way up, but be prepared to snag a few of those rocks. thats why i dont throw $20 custom cranks at night, the second reason is its dark.....i dont think they can differentiate between a store shelf paint job and a handpainted crank. there are a ton of other colors that work, im more concerned with where the fish are and how they want it retrieved.Originally Posted by GobyPuck
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