clear water lures

[Bass XL]

hey all, I was wanting to know, what are some good lures for CRYSTAL clear water?

[Nick B]

Natural colors are great for clear water

[roadwarrior]

Natural, green and blue.

I especially like fishing jerkbaits in clear water.

[JigNBig]

a firetiger terminator double willow spinnerbait with firetiger blades or a trick worm with a nail in the back

[shtuka]

ghost and natural.

[CrazedL.IFisherman]

lures that resemble any type of shad, i like throwing shad colored spooks and walk the dog lures espcially

[T-rig]

Black seems to work good in gin clear water but usually on cloudy days.

[basspro48]

Lucky Craft's Ghost Minnow color is the best color for any hardbait I have used in crystal clear waters, for soft plastics I like watermelon/red, black/blue flake, and pro blue.

[senile1]

I use natural colors for plastics and white or shad colors for hard baits.  Make your casts long and use lighter line below 10 lb test, except when pitching or flipping heavy cover.  

[Matt Fly]

For blue bird skies, clear water, I like white, chrome w/ blu back, Tenn. shad colored cranks by bomber. Spinner baits with silver willow leafs and white skirts, or a white/blue skirt.   Translucent skirts are best.

For cloudy days, I still like white cranks, some times with Chartrues on the backs, instead of Blue backs, black or dark colored with chrome sides. I go with brass blades on spinners baits with white, white/chartreus.

Clear water gives bass a chance to feed by sight, so lures that look life like are the ticket, normally moving pretty good.

I also don't like any rattles or noise with crystal clear water. With water so clear, bass are normally spooky, so the less noise the better.

Matt

[Garnet]

Color allways start with the color you see most in the water.

It doesn't matter what the baitfish or crawfish are in your lake they will have tones of the color you see most. (unless color blind).

So if it's greys and browns thats your start, if dull green go there what ever you see.

After you get the main color work on acsents Chart,red,orange,white.

Now just apply this to the bait and specie you are fishing for.

Garnet

[Brad_Coovert]

In crystal clear water.

For plastics and jigs, I want a bait that blends into the bottom or the cover I am fishing.   Usually greens, browns, and blacks.  There are a lot of different shades in those groups and finding a color to match the bottom is usually easy.

For crankbaits, I want no rattle and a ghost color or baitfish color.

The BDS line of Lucky Craft is a silent bait.  The LV300N is a silent lipless bait.  Lucky Craft has several ghost colors.

For topwaters, any baitfish color.

Brad

[Bass XL]

All right guys. Thanks for all the help. I have an Idea of what I should get: Natural color Cranks (green, white, etc.) with no rattles. This is a stupid question, and I think the answer would be "yes" but, the lake has a lot of crawfish, so would a red or green crawfish pattern be good? And using bright, natural color spinnerbaits with willow leaf blades. But, would a chatterbait work well? And plastics, I know what to get. And for topwater, would a Fluke be good? Thanks for all the help.

[bubbler]

white/smoke/black/blue

These colors will look more realistic to the bass.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Clear water is all I fish for the most part, unless I'm road tripping to another members honey hole.

I always use natural colors only.  Hues of green, black and brown.

finesse jigs, finesse worms, etc

When cranking, we also stay natural with silv/blk, gold/blk combos.

[justfishin]

I have a lake like that near my house. I have had a lot of luck with clear torpedoes early in the morning and late in the evening and wacky rigging Zoom Centipedes in green pumpkin as well as #10 Husky Jerks in the Tenn. Shad color.

[Ky_Lake_Dude]

Natural stuff.

[eyedabassman]

Bass XL, Yes, to the red and green colors. Remember crawfish change colors during the season, like when they are molting. If you have a live well in your boat and you catch a bass, put it in your live well and see if the bass will throw up any crawfish in your live well( they do this alot) that they were feeding on, and then you can see what color the crawfish are feeding on.

As for the spinnerbaits I like white/w gold and silver willow blades near weeds or white/w chat. I also like white blades. Chatterbaits I cannot help you with because I picked some up this winter and plan on trying them myself this year. As for top water on a clear lake I like spooks,pop-r's, floating tubes, spittin image, smaller buzz baits,Rapala floating minnow,and I have used the X rap at or near the surface and it works great,torpedos,lucky 13 by Heddon,chug bug.

I don't use flukes as a top water I fish them around docks and from shallow to deep water on a C-rig.But you could fish them as a top water like a jerk bait. I hope I did help you out some. 8-)

[Hookemdown.]

Natural, green and blue.

I especially like fishing jerkbaits in clear water.

What he said.