Originally Posted by ribit
Water color and Weather. Depends on water color and how much sunlight. Lure color and presentation. High, clear skies and clear water dictate smaller lures. As water muddies larger lures. As water color increases,use more flurescent colors. Stained only see 1'-2' fish look for shape and color that is out of the norm. As water color clears go to lighter more natural, more translucent, more metal flake. As water color gets more stained, go to brighter colors such as whites, yellows and oranges. When you reach the point of 2'-4' of visiblity, try brighter flourecents, such as high-visibility blues, pinks, chartreuse or lime green. Muddy or black 1'-2' visibility, opaqueness takes over, black, brown, very dark blue and dark red are like silhouettes in mud. Stained dark green or brown water use multi-color tube jigs. Black-and-chartreuse or pink-and-yellow. Use a little glitter in real dark water. Muddy water try pink with silver, pink-and-white or spotted minnow. Chartreuse or pink in weedy areas. Bottom color, use pumkin on sandy bottom and chartreuse with rocky or dark bottom. East, spotted minnow. Midwest and South, charteuse-and-pink with silver do well.
This came out a mag. I read in the past. It is a place to start. I use a translucent charteuse with red and silver flecks with pretty good success in fairly clear water 2'-5'. lol