One Of My Ponds Did A 180, Clear Water

[buzzfrog]

so one of my favorite ponds at the campgroud i fish did a flip this weekend. it has always been muddy, for some reason i camp after heavy rains and with the mud, it is easy to get it em on hollow frogs, tricks, wacky and spinnerbaits.. well since summer is on, it seems the pond has went all clear. i can figured fluro leaders on my wacky rod. outside of topwater at night, i have no clue. I went this weekend with topwater, a MH all aroud spinning, horny toad and pitchen stick. I only caught 2, compared to like 20 a week, this is the second week with clear water and fishin has sucked.

PS, for some reason the i cant get a crank bite, i have spend countless hours and nothing.

[BassinMD]

A lot of my favorite ponds to fish do this too, best bet is to go with natural colors green pumpkin, watermelon, and any browns and use a natural looking bait like craw plastics, senkos, and flukes just fish em slow in gin clear water fish can see super far and really get a good look at your lures so using good colors and realistic forge will get you bit a lot more

[buzzfrog]

thanks

[Bair]

A lot of my favorite ponds to fish do this too, best bet is to go with natural colors green pumpkin, watermelon, and any browns and use a natural looking bait like craw plastics, senkos, and flukes just fish em slow in gin clear water fish can see super far and really get a good look at your lures so using good colors and realistic forge will get you bit a lot more

x2. Try using a silent crank if you have one with you.

[00 mod]

Just a guess, but have you noticed any new grass/weeds? I would be some type of summer plant has grown and cleared the water for you. Good luck on the fishing.

Jeff

[buzzfrog]

Just a guess, but have you noticed any new grass/weeds? I would be some type of summer plant has grown and cleared the water for you. Good luck on the fishing.

Jeff

yes!!! yes, i did not know that plants growing would clear water.. thinking of getting a transluecent or clearn kvd sexy dog or some spook, read an article fish can see the comotion above but not really see the bait since it is clear...

also i have tried silent, lipless, sqaure, coffin, round, bomber,bandit, rapala, lucky craft, ecaliber, xcaliber, nothing on cranks. Were they tried to clean most fo the weed mats from near the shore, big mats seem to be dis-connected and a few slowly float with the wind, lol I know that is hard to picture, but the frogging is good on it, i suppose with out it roots, it will be dead and gone by next week

also depending on the wind, at either end, the run off in to a large stream, or at the other end, were a feeder stream runs into it, There is always sludge type stuff, it always depends on the wind as wich end it is, so far i cant tell if it helps or hinders the fishing, it make a mess out of the reels, getting that crap in the eylet and sppol, even the worm drive gets it.

[psuangler91]

try a drop shot, especially around the weed edges. I've been fishing one from shore at my local lake which is extremely clear(8 or 9 feet) and have been killing them whenever nothing else is working. You'll catch alot of dinks but at least you're catching them.