How do I use a crank bait?

What type of crank bait in this situation?

• In this situation what type of crank bait(s) would you use? What color(s)? What casting and reeling in method(s)? 1.) 2 acre pond 2.)40-60 degrees farenheit 3.)dark water ...show more

• Answer:

  the first thing I would do (sure I would run around in a boat and monitor the bottom depths and points, drop offs and shallow, rock piles and any feeder streams) I would if I could not do the aforementioned (not knowing any of that) cast a 1/8 ounce weight (from the middle of the lake) to feel the bottom for what could snag me if I decided to throw a crank bait (but in this hypothetical idea of wonder gamesmanship I would be in a boat) though I take it it's 18 feet deep and no weeds or trees or stick ups. I would face the sun and throw to shore a pencil popper trying to get it to land on the shores edge. The color is silver shiner and I would wait 15 seconds before twitching it into the water and moving it three inches and stop five seconds and twitch it ad stop I would make fifteen casts toward the ponds edge facing the sun. If no bites I would cast into the wind with a fat rap also silver shiner color then if no luck I would try a crawdad (color to match the time of year) and then move on to a frog pattern in as dark a color combination I have first cast let the ripples disappear and then twitch it using the zara spook to entice a top water bite and then lastly if still nothing the deep diving rattletrap color cut mackerel.