You might want to try clear plastic lures - hard or soft

[senkosam]

Years ago I caught bass on a clear plastic Zara Spook - a splashy surface lure. Even caught bass on a clear diving crankbait made by Jim Rogers. Last year I thought: why not clear soft plastic lures? You might think that they would be invisible underwater and especially in murky water but I found that fish detect them with no problem and work as well as any colored lures - even opaque colors. Here are a few that did well:
double-dipped curl tail:


undipped curl tails right from mold - one with spinner:


hybrid Magnet tail added to Mo Magic mold body:


molded taper tail added to same body:


Clear plastic body segment from Mo Magic mold:


thin straight-tail from mold:


cone tail segment added to a grub body:


and a clear plastic wacky-rigged stick:


Every one of the above were capable of catching fish equally well after fish are located. I guess it's all about beauty in the eye of the beholder.

[Lines]

Clearly a job beautifully done.
Must be the water displacement that enables fish to locate and attack the clear baits.

[ctom]

Clear plastic refracts [bends light] differently in water than the water itself so fish can see it. Clear with a little hi lite is a dandy natural bait, one of my favorite cold water walleye bait colors. Adding a smidge of the uv enhancer powder is also a dandy fish catching machine.