I need some advice. Tomorrow morning I'll be fishing a honey hole. It's an old gravel pit, aproximately 25ft deep at the dock where I'll be fishing from. It's essentially a deep, clear 90 degree ledge. I mean crystal clear. Most days I can see 15ft+, but it's not uncommon to see the bottom.  I've caught lots of 3lb fish here in the prespawn, but have never done any winter fishing. I'm in Indiana & the high is supposed to be 58 degrees. It's been in the upper 40s to mid 50s for a few days now.

With these conditions, what should I be throwing? Thanks!

It sounds like you are fishing a pit with steep walls from a stationary location...a dock.

The bass in a pit have a daily routine year around, they patrol the perimeter. To catch them you need to determine at what depth to intercept those bass when they cruise your location. Start deep and slow with either a black jig w/neon blue trailer or #239 blue pearl-black flake IKA. 

Tom

Berkeley gulp minnow on 1/8 oz jig head. 2.5 inch or 3 inch 

Where are the Ned rig folks?

Tom

7 minutes ago, WRB said:

Where are the Ned rig folks?

Tom

 

 Out fishing 1'-8' of lightly stained water where the rig was designed to be fished 

 

-T9

10 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 

 Out fishing 1'-8' of lightly stained water where the rig was designed to be fished 

 

-T9

Ouch ~

 

 

Personal Foul ~ Unnecessary Roughness  T9,  15 Yards

Replay First Down.

A-Jay

26 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Ouch ~

 

Personal Foul ~ Unnecessary Roughness  T9,  15 Yards

 

Replay First Down.

A-Jay

 

Oops, lol - wasn't intended that way. Apologies, Tom . I'm just an old schooler that gets bugged by all the modern reinterpretations of the "Ned rig." Go ahead and throw it into 25' of super clear water, but at that point, you are just "fishing a grub." 

 

I imagine Tom might feel the same if "horizontal jigging" suddenly took the Internet by storm and everyone and their brother turned it into something it was never meant to be...but referred to it as such anyway.

 

-T9

 

 

The banks of many pits mines are sheer bluffs, where a vertical delivery can be very effective.

In the gin-clear phosphate pits of Mulberry, Florida, the most popular lure color is 'white'.

 

Roger

Finesse presentations like the Ned rig should be ideal for pit lakes, light line, subtitle slow sinking, natural life like movements shouldn't be relagated to shallow off color water.

Tom

PS, no harm no foul!

I have never fished that type of water . There is some around but have never been given permission to fish them . A friend caught a double digit from a quarry in Illinois . He took the measurements and had a replica made . I know it would be easy to fake it but I believe this guy . Theres a lot of people I would just roll my eyes at . LOL . Anyhow , he caught it on a Rattle Trap .

Thanks for all the replies! I didn't have any luck, but my nephew caught a decent little guy on an 1/8oz jig head with a berkley power grub. (This kid could catch a bass using a rock)

I'd go with a finesse carolina rig with a zoom centipede, or a Ned Rig.

On Lake Kentucky, I used flutter spoons and float n fly rig on deep, clear ledges. Add a drop shot to that and you probably would have fared better.