So I've been advised to attempt throwing a Colorado Bladed spinnerbait in Muddy water. I've gone through my Spinnerbaits and here's what I have.

1. Strike King Rattlin Midnight Special Red with a Gold hammered single Colorado blade.

2.Same as above in Black/Blue with a single Chrome hammered Colorado Blade

3.Same as #2 with a black #7 Colorado blade with a smooth finish.

Now as far as fishing spinnerbaits is concerned, I've been taught that on clear sunny days, a chrome blade is best and on overcast days a gold blade is better...does this apply to muddy water as well? What's with the this red colored spinnerbait and the whole Minight Special (night application)

In muddy water red is a good color and so is chartreuse. Gold or copper blades too.

Chart or chart/white or black skirt with gold plated blades work great on muddy water.

I go more by water clarity than weather. Silver in clear, gold in stained muddy water. I would go with #1

 

As for the midnight special think, darker colors are supposed to standout better against the dark night sky. I dunno, I've never caught anything with a spinnerbait at night using my booyah moontalker, and I have for sure given it a fair shake.

Chartreuse with gold blade.  You can see red pretty good in dirty water too.

Chrt and white tiwht a BIG Colorado blade one that makes your rod tip thump as it turns

my go  to spinnerbait in muddy water is a big chartreuse luck e strike Trickster. The Trickster blades throw off a good thump that have caught me fish in about 3" of visibility

How muddy?  Over the winter, I made myself a secchi disc.  That is a tool that water quality experts use when discussing water visibility.  It is so that guys in different parts of the country can talk to each other about water visibility using a certain standard.

 

An acceptable substitute is how deep can you hang a white spinnerbait off the side of the boat before it disappears.  So, when you are talking about muddy water, are you talking 6", or a foot or more.  In Bull Shoals ( generally a very clear reservoir) a secchi reading of 2' is considered somewhat muddy.  In some of the lakes I fish, some of the time, a secchi reading of 6" can happen.   That is why, more and more, I' starting to say "how muddy"

 

I think that color choices are related to water clarity, I don't really know how they are related and the secchi disc is how I am going about trying to quantify that, in my own mind.

 

OK, now that that is out of the way, in the past, with secchi reading of around a foot or less, my best spinnerbait option has been a half ounce single spin, chartruese head, chartreuse/purple skirt , white/chartruese BPS plastic trailer and a copper colorado blade ( slightly bigger than a quarter, less than a 50 cent piece).  I don't think blade color makes a huge difference in this equation, just the one I bought happened to have a copper blade on it.  I don't throw a trailer hook on this bait because of cover concerns.

Oklahoma blade for muddy and dark water.

 

Jeff

Fish the same type of spinnerbait you would if the water was off color. Bass have exceptional good eye sight and can find whatever prey they want to eat in water we can see well in!

The blades should match the prey and the speed and depth you plan to fish. Single Colorado blades made met to be fished slow on the drop regardless of water color or time of day/night.

Go fish and give the bass a chance to let you know wht they want, doesn't matter what think.

I see KVD has a signature spinnerbait available!

Tom

How muddy?

Red spinnerbait and gold blades for that. 

Airborne Angler - that's muddy.   I'd guess a secchi disc reading of less than a foot.

Clear water = sliver blades and white colors.  As the water gets darker the blades turn gold and the skirt goes from bright colors (stained water) to dark (muddy or at night).  

 

As visibility goes down, size goes up and blades get fatter so fish feel rather than see the bait.  Also, bigger size for bigger fish but smaller size for more fish.  

 

As temperature drops so does retrieve speed so blades should get fatter then too (winter).

After many years and after owning over a hundred  spinnerbaits I discovered that around 80% of the time I fish with a spinnerbait it´s single nickel Tennessee blade white & chartreuse skirt. So you may ask what happens with the remaining 20%, well there´s where the double willow diamond pattern white & chartreuse comes into play, it´s really easy to slow roll it.

Try a War Eagle Wake Spinnerbait.    Vibration from that thing ought to be monstrous.   I could be wrong, but I thinik it has both a #5 & #7 Colorado blades.   

 

Its probably the most vibration put out by anything on the market.  Its definitely has the most of anything that Ive used. 

If you said stained then yea

but for true muddy water for me Ive not seen much a difference in color

I would recommend a black skirt with a bulky black trailer, with a big thumpin gold indiana blade.  

How muddy?

plowable, that's how my everyday lake looks like around this time.

I use a 1/4 oz Mann's classic spinnerbaits with two gold Colorado blades with a chartreuse shirt. When it comes to switching skirts I change it to a "hot" chartreuse shirt. I use the mister Twister split double tail trailer in chartreuse. One shot of YUM SHAD scent and it's good to go.

 

How muddy?

 

We call that "Kansas Clear" 

 

Black, firetiger, and bright orange with hammered brass blades are the way to go.

 

Bladed jigs give out a ton of vibration and are one of my first options in muddy water. Had a great day just a couple weeks ago in a very muddy lake with a firetiger or solid black bait with a black blade.

Blades

#3 red coloirado in front of a #5 copper colorado

Singe #5 colorado

 

Shirts

white/yellow/chartreuse with a 4" twister tail grub in yellow or silk chartreuse

Solid Purple with a Zoom Fat Albert Grub in Junebug

Looks like they are chokin that chatter jig. Great alternative to a spinnerbait.

Man, that org/blk/ylw is a slik looking skirt.   Who makes that? 

Chartruese or black skirt and experiment by putting on a single Colorado blade in gold or brass in size 4 or 5. Northland makes a great

single hammered brass cupped blade in size 5 that's killer. Put it on your favorite single blade spinner bait and have some fun...

 

Old school basser...