cjam93 Posted July 27, 2014 Posted July 27, 2014 Hey guys so I am really wanting to get into throwing swimbaits. However I have started noticing a lot of people that use them seem to be fishing clear water. I live in North Carolina, so a lot of my lakes around here are not extremely clear. The lake I spend the most time on usually varies anywhere from 12-30 inches of visibility. I want to throw a BBZ-1 6in, so I would think that it should be fine, but I just want to be sure before I start getting some money together for the set-up. Quote
Super User Jrob78 Posted July 27, 2014 Super User Posted July 27, 2014 I'm in north TX, none of our lakes are clear either. I had the same hesitations when I first started throwing swimbaits but I realized that bass have no trouble finding other baits in dirty water. They can hone in on a slim shaky head worm or a weightless Senko falling through the water column. They have no trouble finding a large swimbait and sensing the disturbance it creates. 1 Quote
cjam93 Posted July 27, 2014 Author Posted July 27, 2014 Awesome thank you! That is what I expected, I just wanted to hear it from someone else haha. Thanks again! 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted July 27, 2014 Global Moderator Posted July 27, 2014 The big baits move a lot of water, even if they don't do it with a lot of the traditional thump or vibration of normal bass lures. Most of our lakes are pretty stained in NE KS and they still manage to find them. Quote
Super User Raul Posted July 27, 2014 Super User Posted July 27, 2014 In clear water bass are sight feeders, in muddy water they use sound and lateral line to find their food. Quote
Super User smalljaw67 Posted July 27, 2014 Super User Posted July 27, 2014 If water is stained almost all the time then the fish adapt but the waters I fish are clear most of the time and when the water gets dirty a swim bait is not good, we tend to use them like jerkbaits, 2' of visibility and more. Quote
gobig Posted July 27, 2014 Posted July 27, 2014 I tend to do better in dirty water with hard baits. Quote
einscodek Posted July 27, 2014 Posted July 27, 2014 Part of the lure of the big swimbaits is also that they make them fairly realistic in looks and in action. Those sight characteristics are diminished in heavy stained though the action and water displacement can be detected via lateral line So I'd say realistic swimbaits are at their max effectiveness in clearwater .. in stained there are competitors and alternatives Quote
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