The lake I fish is very murky. At it's absolute best, you can see a white spinnerbait at 10 inches. After that, it's gone. Said that to say this. I fish mostly plastics all year. I use wacky rigged Zoom centipedes, Zoom baby brush hogs, Havoc pit boss, Culprit 7 1/2 worms, Berkley chigger craws, crazyleg chiggercraws, all with success. I have never needed a rattle, although, it couldn't hurt. Like Francho said, these bass have learned to feed under these conditions. It's where they live. Whatever it takes to survive.
Hootie