Fishng Muddy water

[edde978n]

Hello everyone I am new here, from Texas, and am planning on fishing the "mud hole" today! Never fished for peacocks but I am going to use my LM bass fishng techniques for fishng muddy water and see how it goes. I will be using dark color worms, and jigs, along with a couple top waters and spinners, all worked slow, shallow, and very tight to cover.
We will see how it goes! I just couldnt wait to hit the water and do some fshng, so going to just have to make the muddy water work for me.
I will let everyone know how I did later on tonight!

[Stan Wright]

Please let us know how it worked out.

I remember fishing a white or yellow spinnerbait in muddy water. I guess any vibration or noise to give the fish something to home in on should work.

Good hunting.

[edde978n]

well we tried everything we had today, spinners baits (large and small blades), plastics, jigs, even live bait. Only had a few hits. It was tough. we paddled probably 1/2 mile down, and worked both sides of the banks.
Tough tough day, but it was very very entertaining watching my buddy continuously flip over in the kayak! lol It was his first time in a yak. Fun day overall but no fish. We did catch a large red devil in the cast net, and what I am guessing were two talapia as well, while catching bait.

Cant wait to go back, I am determined to find these fish!

[edde978n]

Oh by the way, we were in and out before the latest rain storms hit hard today, and the water was REAL muddy already from the last few days rains. Not sure what the lake looks like normaly since it was my first time, but I couldnt see a chartruese jig 6" under the water! So its probably going to be a little while for it to clear up.

[BASSTRACKER]

your muddy water technique will work but not this soon, storms guarenteed shut em down and driven em deep deep deep,tucs especially.the largemouth will be where you figured in a week or two depending on the weather.the tucs tend to take longer to recover from such a muddy deluge.if you must fish,id say slow and deep,stay on the points ,use jigs,deep cranks, spinnerbaits and even then it will be a challenge.good luck and stay out of the lightning!

[OO7:BASSINASSASSIN]

Water quality is an issue after a heavy rain. Large amounts of rain water will overwhelm the sewage system which often results in raw sewage entering the lake. Best to wait awhile before fishing again. The fish will bite well in muddy water but like basstracker said not this soon.

[Bozu]

FYI heads up guys.

I saw in your recent post that you used a cast net out on the lake for baitfish.

Please be aware that state fishing regulations prohibit the possession of, or the sale of any cast net or what they call here a throw net with a mesh size smaller than 2 (two) inches. The regulation applies to the lake also. The regs purposely uses the word possession because the enforcement officers can confiscate and ticket you for just possessing a small mesh cast net. They don't even have to observe you using it.

Small mesh scoop nets aka dip nets are allowed provided the handles are not longer than a couple of feet.

It's probably wise to leave that gear at home. No sense in risking getting caught and ruining your fishing day.

Bozu

[edde978n]

Hey thanks for the info on the net, I wasnt aware it was illegal as I had seen lot of people use one. Thats how I always got my live bait back home. I will leave it at home in the future...
Also thanks for the tips on the fishing, cant wait to hit it up again when it!