ive heard somewhere that the lips on flatraps are subject to easy breakoffs. ive looked into those lures before, but i couldnt really find the niche where i would use something that runs that shallow...im not really a fan of weights in front of my cranks, but its hard to justify leadcore for only a couple lures.

@ moonman, the color pattern you are refering to is tennessee shad? every time im in the store looking to waste money on another crank i have that one in my hand but ive never gotten it. over the last couple years (my nerdy side is gonna show through here) ive been keeping records of what we catch fish on, size/color/depth/etc. ive even gone as far as breaking the color pattern down into top/middle/bottom. i guess what you say makes sense with that pattern because surprisingly the probably skewed and insufficient data i have says green top, silver sides, and white bottom(with orange coming in a close second).

my arsenal of lures contains mostly xraps and taildancers, but this year i took a deep husky and i really liked how it performed. ill have to look further into it because i really like the dive curve, but from what i can tell the tennessee shad doesnt come in the deep version. that would be a shame...