Has anyone had success with using a shiny silvery colored spinner or jerkbait in murky water? 

Spinnerbaits yes.

 

Jerkbaits are not a dirty water bait regardless of their color.

For spinnerbaits, I think gold or copper are better murky water blade colors than silver is.  For lipless cranks, I have a shiny/silver/greyish/white Berkley Frenzy that is my first choice for lipless crank regardless of water color.  As far as jerk baits go, if the water is murky, I'm probably not throwing one.

HOWEVER, back in the day, when I was ignorant and didn't know any better, I had a shiny Cotton Cordell Redfin, that I threw into murky pond water and strip pit water and did ok with.

   In the muddy rivers .... yes, because there are so many shad. In lakes that are muddy .... not so much.   jj

Nope, never. You better send all your silvery colored baits to me since they will be of no use  haha.

 

In all seriousness though, "murky" is a relative term. How deep can you see into the water? In general I feel like gold or copper blades spinnerbaits work better in dingy or murky to muddy water, but if it's not too off colored, I'd give it a shot.

 

Jerkbaits although are better suited for clearer water, I've caught plenty of fish on them in off colored water. I'd say if it's not any dirtier than normal, give it a shot, you might be surprised especially if nobody else is throwing them.

 

 

You can catch jerk bait fish in dirty water but you have to get really close to the cover. Switching your hooks to inline singles will let you get up into light weeds and around wood/docks. 

On 6/16/2020 at 6:45 AM, WIGuide said:

Nope, never. You better send all your silvery colored baits to me since they will be of no use  haha.

 

In all seriousness though, "murky" is a relative term. How deep can you see into the water? In general I feel like gold or copper blades spinnerbaits work better in dingy or murky to muddy water, but if it's not too off colored, I'd give it a shot.

 

Jerkbaits although are better suited for clearer water, I've caught plenty of fish on them in off colored water. I'd say if it's not any dirtier than normal, give it a shot, you might be surprised especially if nobody else is throwing them.

 

 

The dam where I'm fishing has visibility of around 8-9in.  I tested a cheap nobrand golden inline spinnerbait and it caught me a good size bluegill. After that I used a gold bladed green-red skirt strike king weedless spinnerbait with zoom twintail trailer and managed to catch a 16in long largemouth. I tried using silver bladed spinners after that and I got no bites what so ever. I guess its correct that gold works better in murky water, but maybe its just luck. I asked this question because I made a purchase of a transparent silver YoZuri minnow( a bad judgement on my part IMO), but Im too afraid of casting it for now because it might snag, so unless its almost guaranteed to cause a strike Ill have to keep it in the box.

Edited June 19, 20205 yr by unhooked

On 6/16/2020 at 6:45 AM, WIGuide said:

Nope, never. You better send all your silvery colored baits to me since they will be of no use  haha.

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