Chocolate Milk

[SuperNewbie]

Yes you are probably wondering about the title

Well i moved to a new house and the first thing i noticed was a pond about .5 a mile up the road normally this would be nice but theres a catch

the water is as clear as chocolate milk

my old hole was dingy but out past a foot of the bank it turns into the clarity of cement

is there a good color for this stuff or does color even mater should i go with gulp type baits that just spew scent?

im lost and am at your mercy

tight lines  

[swilly78]

vibration, vibration, vibration.  Colorado blade spinners, chatter/boogiebaits, rattlin cranks.

[Shad_Master]

Well you certainly can't go wrong with GULP! - but another option besides color (you'll probably get a lot of suggestons on this) is to use a bait with lot's of vibration like a chatter bait or a spinner bait with large blades.

[DINK WHISPERER]

Noisy lures that make a commotion and bright colors! Rat-L-Traps, Spooks, BIG Carolina rigged plastics and big spinnerbaits.

[bass wrangler569]

spinnerbaits with big, single colorado blade, lippless cranks, large plastics that displace a lot of water (10" power worm, brush hogs), jigs with rattles

[Bassin_Fin@tic]

Rage craws in black with rattles are an excellent choice as well. Fish will be very tight to and in any available over.

[Catt]

You'll want baits that move a lot of water

[roadwarrior]

You'll want baits that move a lot of water

All of it...

I would look for another pond.

8-)

[Sam]

Nightcrawlers to find out what is in the pond, if anything.  

[Koop]

Spinners with the biggest Colorado blades you can find in gold.  Buzzbaits, jitterbug just get in there and make noise with them.

[tnbassfisher]

I think you are going to pretty much get the same response from everyone, but go with a Rat-L-Trap as a fish finding lure. Then go to a Spinnerbait if you still aren't catching anything.

[SuperNewbie]

well there are bass in it a long with sunnys and other assorted fish

how can i tell there are bass ?

this morning 4 pound largemouth ...

7 inch power worm i think i actually hit the bass on the head with my cast ;D

[aarogb]

    Try an all black Rage Tail Shad.  

    Instead of doing the usual buzzbait action on top of the water, swim it under the water.  This bait moves a TON of water so the bass will be able to hone it extremely well.

[RoLo]

How bass cut a living in perennially muddy water never ceases to amaze me.

I believe the ability of bass to subsist in low-light conditions is grossly underestimated.

Don't ask me how they do it, but I've frequently caught bass in muddy water on a quiet lure (I never use scent).

Moreover, bass from muddy water rarely look like they've missed any meals.

Color tests conducted by Mepps have found chartreuse to be the only color that's highly visible

in both in clear and murky water. Nonetheless, in very dark water it's probably wise to abandon the hue approach

and go with the contrast approach instead. Since the color black absorbs the most light,

it produces the greatest contrast in low-light situations. Red isn't far behind

because it quickly turns black in low light, about as fast as brown turns black.

Even a subtle lure like the strike king anaconda moves enough water to be detected in low-light conditions.

All the same, a spinnerbait would be a better choice because it produces far more vibration.

Though I'm not a fan of spinnerbaits, I had a bunch of spinnerbaits custom-made strictly for bass fishing

in low-light situations (murky water muddy water nighttime):

Overhead Spinner - Single Colorado

No: 5 Gold Blade 3/8 oz Red/Black Skirt      

Overhead Spinner

Overhead spinner refers to the Safety Pin design, as distinguished from in-line spinners,

tail spinners and belly spinners.

Single

Single refers to one blade rather than tandem blades. For use in muddy water,

it's wise to avoid tandem blade spinners. A single blade Colorado produces a Distinct Pulsing Throb.

However when a second blade is added, the blades tend to dilute the vibration of each other,

which destroys the distinctive thumping that only a single blade can deliver.

Colorado

This feature is a no-brainer because the nearly circular Colorado blade creates the most water resistance,

produces the most vibration and revolves at the slowest forward speed

No.5

Now we have a problem!

It may be difficult to find a commercially available No.5 Colorado blade in conjunction with a 3/8 oz weight,

which may have to be homemade or custom-made.

Roger

[Catt]

Most of the natural bodies of water along the Texas/Louisiana gulf coast are for most of the year muddy to extremely muddy.

My go to lures are

A Hildebrandt Go-Getter; the 1/2 ounce size is available with a 24 Karat Gold #6 Colorado Blade or the giant #7 Colorado Blade for maximum flash and vibration.

Rebel D74 Big Craw Crawfish Nest Robber Color

[Hinkle2891]

black. black shows the sharpest sillouhette. also, use scents. i prefer the yum spray on garlic. nasty!

[vatech]

I'm not sure of the reason but I catch bass in water like this using an entirely different approach. I t-rig, wacky rig, or throw a weightless zoom trick worm in watermelon color with a chartreuse tipped tail. I throw it and retrieve it super slowly and even let it set for 10-20 seconds at a time. This offers no/very little water displacement and I do not use scent. The only thing I could possibly imagine the bass being attracted too is the high contrast of the tail. I pay careful attention and usually within my first 5 casts I catch a fish - often bigger than what a spinnerbait produces for me. So far this summer this technique will be good to kick me off with a starter bass but usually never produces a second fish.