Water Clarity Less Bites

[LWD]

Greetings! Good evening or good day. I fish at Flat Creek PFA here in middle Georgia. An 80-acre lake that uses pumps. Every few months or so they pump it full of fertilizer. The result is this green particle stuff that permeates the water and disappears after 1 month or so, it effects water clarity greatly. During the time when it's heavy you know the bites your after drop to scarce. You can place your fingers in the water and right where it's immersed to the first knuckles you can't even see your fingertips. Would you expect many bites in that type of water clarity? Should I keep fishing it hoping to make a lucky cast maybe on a bass' head?

Thank you for reading and y'all TC.

LWD

[PondHunter]

I would find another place to fish for a month, or use the noisiest topwaters you can get your hands on. Good Luck!!

[Packard]

Shouldn't be too bad. I'd go with brighter colors and get some noisy cranks and jerkbaits. Bass don't rely on their sight as much as their lateral line and other senses. My hometown lake is very murky and tested positive for e coli. Doesn't keep the bass from biting.

[tomustang]

Fire up the noise makers

[Bluebasser86]

Slow moving, bulky baits like a big jig with a whole Rage Lobster or even a whole space monkey on the back. Full sized Brush hogs, big tubes with rattles, or maybe a spinnerbait with a single big colorado blade so it can be reeled slowly with lots of thump. Use dark colors, black, purple, brown, and don't be shy about adding rattles to your plastics or jigs to help the fish find your baits.

[EastTexasBassin]

Slow moving, bulky baits like a big jig with a whole Rage Lobster or even a whole space monkey on the back. Full sized Brush hogs, big tubes with rattles, or maybe a spinnerbait with a single big colorado blade so it can be reeled slowly with lots of thump. Use dark colors, black, purple, brown, and don't be shy about adding rattles to your plastics or jigs to help the fish find your baits.

Wow, that was almost exactly what I was going to say.

[James Yalem]

Slow moving, bulky baits like a big jig with a whole Rage Lobster or even a whole space monkey on the back. Full sized Brush hogs, big tubes with rattles, or maybe a spinnerbait with a single big colorado blade so it can be reeled slowly with lots of thump. Use dark colors, black, purple, brown, and don't be shy about adding rattles to your plastics or jigs to help the fish find your baits.

I agree, but it is true that you will get less bites in muddy water than stained or lightly stained to somewhat clear. The clearer the water the larger the strike zone of a bass. However, gin clear water, visibility over 8-10 feet, is more difficult to fish because the bass will be much deeper in such water most of the time.

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M.S. Slammer

if you are looking to cover water.

Otherwise, I'd say jigs with big trailers fished slooooow.

[Randall]

My experience is when the state of GA fertilizes the small lakes the bites drop off during the week following the fertilization. They have also caused fish kills doing this in summer a few times in the past and from my experience they often do more harm than good. If I know they have just fertized I fish somewhere else. After about a week enough fresh water comes into most of the lakes even though the water may still be off color the fish will bite. During a drought like we are having now it may take a little longer but low O2 levels are usually the bigger problem and not the water color.