Went out yesterday in the yak to a local lake. The water was like chocolate milk and was up way high compared to normal. I was only able to catch one fish. I was throwing just about everything I had, mostly targeting cover like stumps, rocks and lay downs. I used dark colors or very vibrant colors and lures that gave off a lot of vibration and sound. Nothing. I was reading that I should make multiple casts to the target, something I was not doing a good job of. From yall's experience, is this accurate? Any other advice? Thanks in advance.

Whenever I fish dark water I usually target the same area over and over again. It gives the bass multiple chances to locate and target your lure, generally I am throwing dark colored soft plastics or some sort of jig with a trailer.

I like dark rattle jigs or crankbaits with a rattle

Thanks. I feel like I definitely moved on from one piece of cover to the next too quickly.

I am the same way I lose patience a lot of times and want to move on to the next spot that looks promising.

I ran into the same thing last Friday on one of the local lakes. It has 3 big feeder creeks that jumped the lake up 2' overnight due to flash flood conditions and muddied the water a ton. I spent the day flipping a black jig and slowly retrieving a blackberry chatterbait around shallow cover. There was several times it took multiple casts several times to the same piece of cover to get the fish to bite.

sounds like my morning today. after 2 days of rain the water was up a foot and a half and the fish were extremely tight to wood cover and VERY finicky. I had to soak a black/blue jig with a rage craw and big rattles (lots of vibration and noise) for 10 seconds between shakes, spending up to a minute per pitch. It did pay off though with multiple fish off of every stump and laydown. most fish bit after the fifth or sixth shake and pause. you really have to let them find it.