I have been told the best place to find fish during this time of year is to find the clearest water on the lake. Regardless if this is true or not I have never been told how to find this without running all day long looking. I know the wind and bottom content have to do with it but I don't have a process that I know will point me toward the clearest water without taking a lot of time looking. What process do you use to find the clearest water?

Depending on where you live, the closer to the dam (lower end of the lake) usually is the clearest water.  That would be a good starting point.

the water source that feeds the lake that is most rocky ,if possible. or go toward lake at begin of rain when creeks getting muddy, the back to creeks as mud starts to settle, fresh water will be coming. 

3 hours ago, lonnie g said:

the water source that feeds the lake that is most rocky ,if possible. or go toward lake at begin of rain when creeks getting muddy, the back to creeks as mud starts to settle, fresh water will be coming. 

 

I agree with Lonnie G. I don't know the size of the body of water you are fishing but water clarity is all about exposure. Rocky bottoms, deep areas and places protected from the wind will be most clear.

 

I fished my home pond today and the clarity is chocolate milk. 15mph winds, dirt and leaves on the bottom and no long protected creeks or pockets. Less than an inch of clarity and its 50 acres.

In manmade reservoirs, the water is generally clearer as you approach the dam, owing to sedimentation.

In natural lakes, the water is generally clearer around inlets with the hardest substrate.

All other things equal, water along sheltered shorelines will be clearer than windblown shorelines.

 

Roger

"Finding clear water"

 

What for ? 

 

 

55 minutes ago, Raul said:

"Finding clear water"

 

What for ? 

 

 

He's got a new Megabass Vision that he's dying to try out 

As stated man impoundments (reservoir) are deeper at the dam area and typically where clearer water is located depending on wind, rain. The upper end of reserviors is where the major source of water enters and again depending of rain run off the water could be off color, muddied or clear. If the reservior is large with several rivers or streams entering the reservior each arm  could be similar to the main river area entering the lake.

If your lake has a road that goes around the parameter you can drive around the lake with your car and look. If you have a boat you can boat around the lake and look.

Knowone can help you without knowing which lake you are asking about.

clear water isn't always better fishing than off color water unless more bait is located there.

Tom

What Tom penned above.

 

Head to the dam area.

 

And remember that "water clarity" means the water is a little clearer than the surrounding water, even if it is 2-inches clearer.

 

You need to study the water flows in the lake so you will understand where the water enters the lake and how it flows towards the dam.

 

Once again, finding "clearer or cleaner" water is another factor to put into your formula of finding the baitfish and crawfish and the bass.

10 hours ago, Raul said:

"Finding clear water"

 

What for ? 

 

 

Cause all the bass in the lake will swim to clear water!

 

To quote Sam: You need to study the water flows in the lake so you will understand where the water enters the lake and how it flows towards the dam.

The internet .  Boating around the lake  . Driving around the lake . Flying over the lake . Asking others .  

At the top end of my home reservoir, two big rivers  merge together. Yesterday one was chocolate milk and the other was pretty clear. After they flow together, there is another large tributary that flows in about 10 miles  So basically the only way I can figure it out is drive around in the truck and look or phone  friends that live downstream and upstream