Personal Preference Please!

[bassnbornboy]

I fish on a lake on the border of California and Mexico. Now listen to these details: Its visibility is up to 25 feet ,it's an 75-80 degree day and water is 70-73 depending on where you look. What would be the best lure for this situation?

[OroBass]

Small natural baits. I'd try natural colored senko, shakey head finesse worms, and drop shot. Also clear water can be great for topwater.

[F14A-B]

Yea, drop shot small 4" worms.. 5" senkos light line applications in ultra clear water is you're friend..

[BadBassWV]

If there was a pretty stiff Breeze, I would throw a double willow white Spinner bait. Without the breeze, I'd throw a Skirted Siebert jig with some type of craw trailer. Braid with a Flouro leader, just because "In My Mind" it will catch fish.

[aavery2]

Sounds like good conditions for a jerkbait to me, find a few wind blown points and give it a try.

[Smokinal]

Don't forget a swimbait!

[Raul]

As usual Raul goes against popular belief about the itsy bitsy teeny tiny lure advice, even though my everyday lake is choked with timber and not so good visibility it´s not the only place I fish, I´m blessed with having a lot of ponds and several small lakes even closer to my home than my everyday lake, interestingly those smaller lakes are the exact opposite of my everyday lake, Deep, crystal clear water so clear that you can see 30 ft down, cover lacking. With what do I deal with them, most of the time with the same tackle I use in my everyday lake, regular size cranks ( 7-9 cm in length ), regular size worms ( 6-7 inch ), 3/8 oz single Tennessee blade spinnerbaits n´such, normal, everday stuff, ocassionaly I do downsize but as I said, it´s ocassionally. As for colors, again, I go against the tide, why ? because for me hot colors produce in the same level as "natural" colors and patterns.

 

Don´t over think it, the more you think it the more complicated it gets, you spend too much time thinking when you should spend your time fishing. Fish with the baits you regularily do and do it with faith.

[HeavyFisher]

Huddleston, nothing else. 

[OkobojiEagle]

I'm assuming largemouth.  Very clear water leads me to look for cover.  I'd try fishing the outside deep weed edges with whatever plastic bait I was proficient with... in my case most likely a 5" grub on a jighead heavy enough to swim as deep as the weed bottom is.  If there is a well defined inside weed edge I would fish it as well.  Quiet wooden docks near or over water 8' or deeper would peak my interest as well.

 

 

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[bassnbornboy]

interesting answers everyone. none of your guys answers "agreed" with me. Really different than what I thought but thanks! Like I said, personal preference please!

[vikingbear8]

Personal preference for San Diago area California? uhhm let me think……gonna have to go with 8-10" swimbait lol

 

Seriously though go buy a huddleston or any other proven big bait and catch a teener man, you are in arguably the number one big fish area in the world, leave the sissy baits at home and chase the ones most people will never even have an opportunity too catch.

[Kevin22]

Something very natural looking. Swimbait, drop shot, shakey head, etc. Fluorocarbon line will be a must. 

[PersicoTrotaVA]

Lower Otay, I know exactly what you need to throw.  A trout swimbait...a big trout swimbait.  Big t-rigged worms work as well.  Use bigger lures, deep diving crankbaits, large spinnerbaits and jigs, and the thing that will work, if all of that doesn't, is a drop shot.

[bassnbornboy]

Lower Otay, I know exactly what you need to throw.  A trout swimbait...a big trout swimbait.  Big t-rigged worms work as well.  Use bigger lures, deep diving crankbaits, large spinnerbaits and jigs, and the thing that will work, if all of that doesn't, is a drop shot.

You been there before? Lower Otay?

[PersicoTrotaVA]

I lived in San Diego for 7 years.  I fished a lot of the reservoirs there.  Otay, El Cap, Hodges, Miramar, Poway, Wholford, Palomar, Santee Lakes and the river.  There are a lot of big fish in SD county.  They stock the lakes with trout and the bass go nuts on them.  A 8" trout colored swim bait will get those bigs ones out.