Fishing clear water

[Jaywatson]

I've been fishing extremely clear water for the past couple of weeks with no success.Does anyone have any information on how to fish a lake like kemper lake or should I role my poles up and count my losses.

[bird down]

Google it. Or post on the main forum. I have never caught anything worth bragging about in water I could see my jig 2 ft down or deeper.

[MidMsAngler]

How are you fishing? I have some Yankees in my family who fish some clear water up north. They do a lot more casting roadrunners and jigs under bobbers than vertical presentations like single poling and spider rigging unless they are working deep water.

[Jaywatson]

I've tried almost all of them. I've fished tops ranging from 15-25 fow. I've been told by some really good crappie guys it was a tough lake. Just trying to get all the info I can before giving up.

[Rees Guide]

Its tuff but rewarding, pulled cranks down there some and results were spotty, think 7 is the most I have caught but they were all GOOD fish.
If you haven't tried it you need to try fishing in the rain.
Good luck, will be down there next weekend to give it another whirl.

[SlabLapper4sure]

Lighter line, natural looking baits and fish your baits faster, not giving the fish time to realize that it ain't real. Like Rees said, Rainy days, some wind to deflect your presence on the surface and clouds!Fish at dusk and even at night under a light!If you are casting the bank, move out deeper and fish break lines that have some kinda cover, stumps, rocks, deep weed beds!Hit areas that a creek channel skirts close to deeper break lines, or follow a creek channel and look for something different, turns, cuts,cave- ins.The other day I was on a gin clear lake and you could see the bass and bream swimming around in shallow in shaded areas and bedding areas. The bream were all over beds and the bass were trying to feed on them!Any splash and the fish would spook in close so I fished the outer holes deeper and that's where I got bit!Wish I had taken my fly rod so I could have backed off and softly laid a fly up there and prolly would have done some good! Hope this helps!

[Donald@CrappieLogic]

match the hatch I would fish a silver chartreuse combo with light line

[feeshrman]

Kemper is probably the toughest lake you will fish for crappie. I suggest driving to Okatibbee. Fish are plentiful there, they may not be the biggest but you will have lots of action. It's a great place to try different techniques and hone your skills. It's also not much difference in drive time for you.

[Jaywatson]

Thanks guys for all the good advice.

[warmouth]

I grew up fishhing a gin-clear lake. Go light line, natural color jigs, and don't plan on vertical jigging.

In the lake I fished, thhe spawn would take place in 5-6' of water, and tinsle jigs, or white were the best producers. The crazy thing about the white jig, was that I could visually fish brush piles in 6' of water, and see the fish hitting the jig. The next best jig after white was natural bug colors, brown, olive, black and tan.

Sometimes you could vertical jig successfully if there was a tangle of standing timber. Not just individual trees, but tight cover.

Shade is very important in super clear water. Docks would be great to try.

Casting slip bobbers is how I would go after them now, if I was trying to get more baits in the water.