Super clear water and limbless laydowns
Hello all, been a rough start to the season up here in WA, just now able to start getting out on the water. Im having a tough time figuring out the lakes up here in WA. I'm originally from Missouri and grew up fishing lakes like Table Rock, Truman, and Lake of the Ozarks or rivers and creeks for small mouth.
The lakes here in WA are all natural lakes with very soft bottoms, lots of vegetation, and huge limbless laydowns in gin clear water. Very little forage in most lakes, bluegill and trout are about it. Water temps are getting up in the low to mid 60s and figured I would start to see fish moving up and starting to get beds ready. But ive seen nothing, been fishing the veg with tokyo rigs, texas rigs, chatterbaits, and lipless. Been banging the wood with texas rigs, squarebills and spinners with no luck. Hit a bunch of docks today but nothing also hit a few humps and points with everything on the boat and blanked out.
Anyone ever fish up here or have suggestions ?!?!
I have not fished in WA, but in the clear lakes near where I grew up we had 10ft+ visibility, and I believe most fish spawned VERY deep relative to traditional expectations.
Like Jason said I’ve also seen fish spawning in 10+’ in gin clear bodies of water. Again, not all fish are spawning at the same time, in these scenarios if I couldn’t pick fish off by sight, I’d rely on prespawn tactics. Key players for me were making LONG casts with Neko rigs and jerkbaits, keep the boat way off your target , downsize your gear and start slinging. Cloud cover and shade are your friends.
