Water everywhere is dirty and pads and grass showing up. Whats your go to lures and how fish this dirty water

Frogs, whopper poppers, glidebaits, buzzbaits something in dark shade. I've had luck with slow rolling spinnerbaits with Colorado blades. Believe it or not I've got a few on large12 inch worms texas rigged. Find structure and cover and people will tell you to slow down your presentation but again I've had a lot of luck speeding it up. Fish can be a lot like us. There's always a few that go against the grain. Lol good luck 

Edited May 25, 20197 yr by Coopdog72

Dirty water = chatterbait + trailer

How dirty?  

today couldnt see bait till it got to the boat

Spinnerbait, chatterbait, and plastics that are dark colored. 

Spinner with Colorado or Willow/Colorado blades, Chatterbait - dark colors with dark single or twin-tail grub trailers

Noisy lipless crankbaits in darker colors

A dark colored bladed jig, spinnerbait with big Colorado bladed spinnerbait, dark colored jig, or a bulky, dark colored plastic. If the weeds are close to the surface, a buzzbait can be good, if they're on the surface, I wouldn't be shy about fishing a frog. 

Lots of good advice, and another thing to consider is fishing tighter to cover or objects in the water. Usually bass want something to relate to when the water gets stained or muddy; this includes isolated logs , isolated groups of pads, dock posts, tires, floating docks etc etc....the closer you can present your lure to the cover the better your chances of generating a strike. 

In no vis water on the mighty Potomac they will be, as stated above, very close to wood, or rock and close to shore.  My school teacher daughter and I caught them last week in such water in only 12" near the shore.  We were using 5" dark green pumpkin with large gold fleck worms weightless.

SStrike King   Black Denny Brauer rattling   jig with  bright orange or chartreuse trailer works pretty good .  

Dark plastics  like Junebug and Candybug..  Try different shapes and sizes.  Jigs in black with blue

On 5/25/2019 at 10:17 PM, J.Vincent said:

Lots of good advice, and another thing to consider is fishing tighter to cover or objects in the water. Usually bass want something to relate to when the water gets stained or muddy; this includes isolated logs , isolated groups of pads, dock posts, tires, floating docks etc etc....the closer you can present your lure to the cover the better your chances of generating a strike. 

Came here to say this - I was picking them apart with a chatterbait and wacky rig a week or two ago, but that bite went cold once the water level pushed into newly flooded timber and grass. Flipping and frogging these areas has been the ticket!

My in-laws cottage is on a small lake that typically has 6" of visibility.  I have tried all the standards (Colorado spinnerbait, rattle trap, chatterbait, Black/Blue Jigs, etc).  What has worked the best?  A wacky rigged green pumpkin senko!  And this weekend I even caught a couple on a Pointer 100, which I would typically associate with clear water.

 

Sometimes, fish are hard to explain.

Pitch a crawfish bait (Nemesis bullet craw or Strike King Rage Craw) at the emergent weeds and lily pads.

Sounds like my home lake.  It usually has 6-10" of visibility and pads everywhere.  Water temps are around 85 degrees now.  Around the pads a frog, white fluke, and bluegill or white swim jig with keitech work really well.  T-rig worms in a shade of green work well too.  Basically anything you can work through the pads and hit open pockets.  Generally the key is to find pads in 3-5 feet of water.  This weekend I had good luck in the mid-day using a pinned 1/2 oz weight with a flipping hook and green pumpkin Senko.