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I fish an oxbow that receives flood water at 44' Vicksburg river gage. The river is out of the lake now but the water is really muddy. This is the first time I have ever seen this lake muddy, most of the time it's so clear that it's hard to fish. So does anyone have any tricks fishing muddy water?
Thanks,
Hang a big ole minner on a hook and rock!!!! If jigging go to a big dark profile bait, at least that's what I do.
Big 2 in tube, black and chartreuse, black and pink, orange and chartreuse and tip it with Ree's big minnow. Find the warmest shallow water you can and fish close to cover real slow.
If your married find out any honey dos your wife has in mind. Complete those tasks so you can go when it clears up
Whooped, whooped I tell ya!!!!!!:Rofl:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by footballcoach
expect them to be shallow , regardless of depth .
Would much rather be whooped than pecked ! Just saying :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
fish shallow with a pink head and blue and white body or orange head black and orange body
Copper colored blade in a road runner the bait
Whooped is the best way to go!!! Put so much love on her she will go with you!!!!
2x orange and chartreuse!!!
When your dead she can tell the next man how good you baited her hook!
Water was chocolate milk the other day down here. It took a big 2"-3" black and chartreuse bait to even get a look.
you could try a black body really bright chartreuse curl tail jig and cast and retrieve. Tip it with a chartreuse crappie nibble. There are times I have done better in muddy water casting a curl tail or curl tail on road runner head because the wake of the lure tips them off with their lateral line,and the black and chartreuse has a particular contrast that also helps them. A chromaglow chartreuse nibble adds a scent trail and a target for them.
I have on occasion caught fish in muddy water with a bait that had a natural color,very little signature in the water,fished slow to hardly moving below a cork.....who can explain it. It seems the longer its muddy the better fish adapt. If you fish much in fertile delta bottom waters in flood plains and the "sippi" your gonna fish muddy water a lot...and you just get use to it. Predator fish actually take advantage of that murk to catch baitfish often times.
I think doggone has a good point. How often to the fish see muddy water. the best I ever see is heavily stained and that's on a good day! I hardly ever even get fazed when the water clouds up. They may situate tighter to cover but they still eat.
Very true!!!
Just carry enough boat for water conditions!!
so yall seem to think that when its muddy....say like tomorrow im going to grenada after all this rain this morning I have to think its gonna be super muddy....they tend to stay tight to cover when its muddy?
Yes but if the temps there dropped as much there as here, I would fish closer to home . Grenada has always been the most unpredictable to me .
Man I can fish at home anytime!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle 1
heck i cant catch fish around home anyway....Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle 1
No go to Ross Barnett it is the best bite now!!
Washington if you can.
Reservoir's are fickle.They are the nation's finest fisheries.But they can be hard sometimes. Pick a few smaller natural lakes or non flood control impoundments that you can dissect the water and target fish easier. When the bite or the water is messed up on the big flood control lakes.....hit those other bodies. If they have good fishery surveys on the species you are after in the size you want....learn that lake inside and out and get after em.