From @customizeyourlure on instagram. He has a lot of great charts i like this one for water clarity and what color to use!

Fish at the depth that the fish are. A bass doesn't have to see your lure to strike it.

 

Tom

It's called lateral line ?

Drop shot, jigging spoon, deep crank bait, blade bait, lipless crankbait, spinnerbait, chatterbait, Texas Rig, Carolina rig, swim bait, wacky jig, neko rig can all be fished at those depths.  The best is what gets them chewing that day.

Welcome to the BR site. I see you listed Casitas and Castaic lakes, neither have stained water.

After the lakes turnover around this time of year locally and the water column settles down the bass and Threadfin Shad can be found anywhere from 2' to 80' and caught.

Deeper then 35' you need to needle (fizz) the bass when caught any deeper.

Bass can find your lures in total darkness using all their senses of hearing, water vibrations via lateral line nerves, smell and sight.

Tom

Bass sight distance is four times the human.  So, if you drops white spinner bait into the water measure the distance down you can see it, then multiply that by four will equal the distance a bass can see your bait.

Thanks guys for the tips ????

Let me know the lake you fish and I will try to help you.

Tom

I have caught fish 15 to 20 foot with 1 too 2 foot visibility but not much deeper .

The wife can smell a chicken wing from a minimum of 2 blocks.

Inside of 1 block, she can tell you what flavor and where you got it from.

 

Bass are the same..I would suspect