How Would You Fish Water Like This?

[strvmmer]

I'm getting ready to head off to fish a new lake tomorrow. It's going to be low to mid nineties, sunny, and the water looks like mint chocolate chip ice cream. I've fished muddy water and heavily stained almost black water, but never anything like this. Any help with lure selection/color and tactics is greatly appreciated.

[wuchr20]

Maybe some crank baits.   

[Senko lover]

Loud lipless crankbaits, chatterbaits, dark soft plastics and jigs, maybe with rattles. I would use a red/orange or firetiger color crank. 

[Danturner]

Go bright and loud....orange chartreuse red.....that'd be my recommendations.

[WPCfishing]

Try white with gold and loud with a big action I'd throw a White skirted spinner bait with gold blades.

[papajoe222]

I'd use the same approach you used in those other situations, providing you had some success.  Low visibility is low visibility, regardless of the color of water.  I treat muddy water the same way I do a cold front with the exception of the size of my baits.  The fish will hold tight to whatever cover there is available and won't chase baits. You basically need to either force feed them something, or stick it in their face for a long time.

[ABW]

Black and blue jig hopped along

[Flippin4Biggins]

Any time I've seen muddy water I just use all chart/white or a fire tiger..... Or other combos like that with the main color chartreuse. I also like big water displacement baits like a d-bomb or a hyper freak on a jig. I like crank sits the most...I like the arashi cranks.... Always run true out of the box and they have nice wobbles. If the waters calm then I like buzz and wake baits. I'm kinda new to bass fishing... Two years now but it's what I have success with in the Iowa/Nebraska area.

[RoLo]

I could suggest several different lures, but I doubt that would be very useful.

On a side note, water clarity is only one component of underwater visibility.

Other factors effecting visibility are sky clarity (clear / overcast),

surface turbulence (windy / calm), depth-of-lure (10" / 10 ft), time-of-day (midday / twilight) ~

 

Roger