High barometric pressure & high wind with cold muddy water?

[Les Young]

How would you have fished this situation yesterday? We never found fish on the wood yesterday like we have the last couple weekends & hardly got any bites. Only used plastics with a nibble. What would you have done to catch them?

[ALBuzz]

I usually fish in a creek, so I’m not sure if this will apply to your body of water. I usually look for the seams where moving water and still water meet and run my bait down that as slow as I can at the halfway point of how deep it is. I can usually find some crappie hanging out there waiting for a meal to swim by.


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[NIMROD]

I use livescope , if not on cover I hunt open flats for suspended fish

[happycaster58]

Try a sheltered deep water cove on the windy side of the lake and look for brush in about 12-18' of water. LS if you have it to scan mouth of cove and work your way back to 6-8' deep. A good amount of luck also helps.

[Les Young]

Try a sheltered deep water cove on the windy side of the lake and look for brush in about 12-18' of water. LS if you have it to scan mouth of cove and work your way back to 6-8' deep. A good amount of luck also helps.

I tried that yesterday but luck never showed it's head. lol

[TreednNC]

I use livescope , if not on cover I hunt open flats for suspended fish

This. Check the flats and look HIGH in the water column. Of the 2lbers I've caught in 2023 so far, all have been in muddy water and none deeper than 3ft in the water column (no matter the actual depth). One boiled the top of the water on hook set.

[Noodle rod]

This. Check the flats and look HIGH in the water column. Of the 2lbers I've caught in 2023 so far, all have been in muddy water and none deeper than 3ft in the water column (no matter the actual depth). One boiled the top of the water on hook set.

Had to laugh at myself with reading your post; I thought those were carp that I am seeing way up top. Now you have me thinking they are missed opportunities!

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[Tom 513]

1st I would downsize my jigs or even try a hair jig. then Id use my electronics to search, Id look for drop offs, humps, main lake points, deep structure and try trolling for scattered fish that are on the hunt. I recently fished a lake that showed schooled fish 8+ft down, I dropped many colors and minnows to them and I couldn't get them to bite a thing, but I could get the scattered fish that were in the hunt mode to nibble.

[Les Young]

Thanks guys.

[Ketchn]

like stated , probably high in the water column and quite likely roaming and scattered out , tough conditions is my thoughts