Living in the Adirondack mts everything is clear. Blue and chrome rattle trap or a bluegill colored 2.8 swimbait(Damiani rig). I tend to bass fish clear water like they're finicky walleye
Fast becoming one of my top choice channels for fishing tips. Always good, informative info with no BS! I’ve been fishing over 55 years and pick up great tips here every video. Tell your angling friends about Matt’s channel. Let’s help this brother out while we all learn from his experience and knowledge. 10K is coming soon! 👍🏼🎣
This is spot on. I have a rock quarry pond by my house that holds lots of fish, and the only baits that I can get Fish on are… Stick baits in watermelon Drop shots in natural colors Small body crank baits in a ghost crawdad pattern. Small spinner baits in blue shad Jerk baits in pro blue ghost Spy baits in ghost minnow Great video Matt!
I fish a river here by my house that's crystal clear and I have no issues getting bit there but- if I go to a lake that's crystal clear- much, much tougher bite. Why I have no idea but I'm glad you made this video- thanks again Matt.
I have learned 3 things today ! 1= I’m using your dirty jig head for my small kaytech. 2=I thought jerbait didn’t work in hot weather 3= I will use a walking bait all day even if it’s sonny ! Right now i have success in clear water that is not that deep but with lots of courant . I generate a lots of bites with a 4’ or 5 ‘ Generals wacky rig , i let it follow the courant and wah- Bam 💥! Thank you for all the informations 👍👏💪🏻🎣
I like throwing the Bill Lewis Stutter Step and walking it really fast and then just dead stick it, it will turn back around and face the opposite direction and usually a fish will be there to crush it. It's a awesome topwater bait!
I use nutrural colored weightless flukes or swimming caffeine shad when they have the bait fish corraled in a Clearwater cove. Late summer switch to a guppy head with easy shiner in same areas. Usually a sunfish type color like copperfield
Great clear water baits. I need to try all your suggestions next year. I have used 6" black trick worm on 1/16 oz and 6" pumpkinseed ribbon tail on 1/8oz In water with 14 foot visibilty on weedlines and did very good.
Great video Matt. I really appreciate all of your clear water tips, tricks, and techniques. Very rarely does can I find stained water where I live and fishing gin clear water really helps me up my game in that stained water. Its also pretty neat to see a lot of the fish, even if I'm not catching them. Its like fishing in a giant aquarium! I'm headed out to fun fish this morning, in gin clear water. Thanks again!
Awesome content on this one Matt! I have for years had good luck using a Mojo rig with a Zoom centipede in cotton candy, always works for me even today, I dont think they see them a bunch anymore and to me , what’s old is new! Thanks for all the great content.
Living in the Northeast the closest lake to me you can clearly see bottom no problem in 25 ft on a sunny day. Almost everything here is clear enough to see down at least 8 ft.
Great info Matt, perfect bait selection! It has been a fun learning game for me on a local quarry! My mod to a baby bass 5 inch senko is to color the thin end with a black sharpie and add a 3mm rattle. The rattle does give a little more pronounced shimmy. Sometimes I will rub the body of the senko to give it a muted blotchy color. I believe the bass will see this as injured prey. Fishing at night can be a great equalizer to the clear water!
Thanks Matt, this lake in my area I've mentioned before that is NOTHING like any lake for over 300 miles. It deep, VERY steep, and gin clear spring feed. It has lots of water shield near the bank, then it has hydrilla, going deep into soft bottom with lots of wood and old standing timber. This lake was made is a super hilly area of a national forest, and they left a bunch of trees standing. They have a ski area near the dam but the rest of the lake has so much wood at or just below the water line it is idle speed only. Most times you can't look down and see fish because it's dark. the way I tell the approx. water clarity is sticking something like a white top water bait as deep as I can. I can still see it clearly at 7 feet. i wish I could get you on my boat and have you show me how to fish this lake. Sometimes I catch them, and other times I can't find them. Thanks for another great video!. BTW, it's hard to graph the areas because of the timber Where I catch most fish is on brush piles at the edge of the hydrilla with a wacky worm with a weed guard on the hook. If you get a chance look up Lake Okhissa. It's about 1100 acres.
Another great video Matt, your killing it. Your 2nd place finish last week proves your prowess in clear water. Alot of clubs around here that have monthly team tournaments have 2 or 3 night tournaments per year. I would be very interested in watching a video that you discuss night time baits amd tactics on clear water and stained water. Keep the great videos coming.
Hey Matt! Living close to Lanier, I don’t see super clear gin clear water. I was just about to say spybait , and you brought it up. Ha ha. Over the past few years that has worked great on Lanier to. Awesome tips!
Matt, thank you for making this latest video! After watching it I came up with an idea for you. What if you made you guppy head withe a flat bottom to it so it will have a wobble to it like the Berkley spybait. If a 2.8in wobbles on the fall and when reeling in slowly I think it will have have great action! Thanks again for all of your knowledge. Eric
Nailed it again Matt. Clear water is a great ally for finding fish. Pelagic colored tube with 1/8 oz head retrived fast like a jerk bait, high rod tip allows the tube to break the surface of the water simulating a fleeing baitfish. Pelagic colored fluke with a weightless EWG screw lock hook, same retrieve as above. Both have the ability to spiral down when one decides to kill the action usually done when ya see chasers behind these baits. Enjoying your vids keep up the great work.
@@warefisher m.bassmaster.com/blog/kvd-its-all-about-baitfish The term Pelagic is usually tied to saltwater fisheries..... but it tranfers to freshwater fisheries as well.
Great video. Concise, packed with useful information. Solid stuff. I am curious on your thoughts if you can run a choppo a bit faster in the conditions you outlined.
Good info. I'd add a 5in Fluke style bait like a zoom super fluke. Excellent less snag top water option. My most productive clear option has been a 4in green pumpkin Swim Senko on a VMC finesse rugby jig head. You seem to like Berkley plastics. How do you get around how they 1)react with and melt other plastics and 2) dry out and get hard?
Hey Matt I seen your trailer at the ramp today didnt see you on the river but you got the work ethic I wanted to say hi but you are out till dark jeez I left at 8 or so and your pretty boat was not at the landing. Good luck Boss hope to Meet you before the tournament
I would love to have some clear water around here. I would love to be able to know by sight if the fish are around. I just have to fish it and find out
Thanks Matt, I’ll be fishing a small, super-clear lake in Michigan this June. I was completely skunked there for a week 2 years ago, but I know that there’s big smallmouth in there because I caught a boatload the year before. This video should really help!
Matt here is my background use to fish running partner was Doug Garrett. Reason I wanted you to contact me is I am in a position to maybe meet up with you on some prefishing at some waters so I can bring my boat and brush up on my game been out this since 2001 but I understand if not. I'm not going to be competing against you in anything yet...lol but please consider at least calling me
@@MattStefanFishing that's a shame back in the day you could take a friend family etc. to practice before it went off limits. That's how you introduce new people. They made it a lonely man's sport I guess
Living in the Adirondack mts everything is clear. Blue and chrome rattle trap or a bluegill colored 2.8 swimbait(Damiani rig). I tend to bass fish clear water like they're finicky walleye
Thanks for sharing!
Fast becoming one of my top choice channels for fishing tips. Always good, informative info with no BS! I’ve been fishing over 55 years and pick up great tips here every video. Tell your angling friends about Matt’s channel. Let’s help this brother out while we all learn from his experience and knowledge. 10K is coming soon! 👍🏼🎣
I am
Awesome! Thanks!
@@MattStefanFishing You’re welcome. My praise is well-deserved! 👊🏼🎣😎
This is spot on. I have a rock quarry pond by my house that holds lots of fish, and the only baits that I can get Fish on are…
Stick baits in watermelon
Drop shots in natural colors
Small body crank baits in a ghost crawdad pattern.
Small spinner baits in blue shad
Jerk baits in pro blue ghost
Spy baits in ghost minnow
Great video Matt!
Also cloudy days and rainy days and right before a storm front moves in .
Thanks for sharing!
I fish a river here by my house that's crystal clear and I have no issues getting bit there but- if I go to a lake that's crystal clear- much, much tougher bite. Why I have no idea but I'm glad you made this video- thanks again Matt.
Thanks for watching
I caught a steelhead on a guppy head while fishing for smallies back in May. That’s gotta be my go to clear water bait
Awesome!
I have learned 3 things today !
1= I’m using your dirty jig head for my small kaytech.
2=I thought jerbait didn’t work in hot weather
3= I will use a walking bait all day even if it’s sonny !
Right now i have success in clear water that is not that deep but with lots of courant . I generate a lots of bites with a 4’ or 5 ‘ Generals wacky rig , i let it follow the courant and wah- Bam 💥!
Thank you for all the informations 👍👏💪🏻🎣
Thanks for watching!
I was just going to ask this as I am heading to Green Lake WI today - Awesome to see 5-6lb smallies cruising the flats. Thanks Matt!
Big ones in green lake!
Fishing lake mead can be one of the clearest waters. Drop shot is one to ol, to catch these fish
I love lake mead and have done great on a jig there
I can’t believe there aren’t 100,000 subscribers here yet. Soon, I bet!
that would be amazing!
I like throwing the Bill Lewis Stutter Step and walking it really fast and then just dead stick it, it will turn back around and face the opposite direction and usually a fish will be there to crush it. It's a awesome topwater bait!
I need to try it
@@MattStefanFishing I like throwing the bigger size, its a fun topwater!
I use nutrural colored weightless flukes or swimming caffeine shad when they have the bait fish corraled in a Clearwater cove. Late summer switch to a guppy head with easy shiner in same areas. Usually a sunfish type color like copperfield
Thanks for sharing!
Matt, The Lake I mainly fish has really cleared up this year. Thanks for the advice.
I hope it helps!
Really appreciate your content....very informative!
Thanks!
Great clear water baits. I need to try all your suggestions next year. I have used 6" black trick worm on 1/16 oz and 6" pumpkinseed ribbon tail on 1/8oz In water with 14 foot visibilty on weedlines and did very good.
thanks!
Great video Matt. I really appreciate all of your clear water tips, tricks, and techniques. Very rarely does can I find stained water where I live and fishing gin clear water really helps me up my game in that stained water. Its also pretty neat to see a lot of the fish, even if I'm not catching them. Its like fishing in a giant aquarium! I'm headed out to fun fish this morning, in gin clear water. Thanks again!
Good luck!
Awesome content on this one Matt! I have for years had good luck using a Mojo rig with a Zoom centipede in cotton candy, always works for me even today, I dont think they see them a bunch anymore and to me , what’s old is new! Thanks for all the great content.
Great suggestion!
You're so right, clear water scares the s**t out of people! I love it!
Haha!
Living in the Northeast the closest lake to me you can clearly see bottom no problem in 25 ft on a sunny day. Almost everything here is clear enough to see down at least 8 ft.
Nice! i love clear water!
Excellent video and fun to hear you talk about clear northern waters like we have here in Pennsylvania.
thanks!
Will be watching you this coming week. Thanks for your videos on thoughtful and common sense tips Matt.
thanks!
Great info Matt, perfect bait selection! It has been a fun learning game for me on a local quarry! My mod to a baby bass 5 inch senko is to color the thin end with a black sharpie and add a 3mm rattle. The rattle does give a little more pronounced shimmy. Sometimes I will rub the body of the senko to give it a muted blotchy color. I believe the bass will see this as injured prey. Fishing at night can be a great equalizer to the clear water!
Good suggestions!
yup I have 2 orders in and used your code twice:) The Reel Shot
Awesome! Thanks!
Great tip Matt i appreciate your advice clear water tips help me out a lot i struggle in clear water thanks 🙏
Glad it helps!
I like the staged approach you mentioned. One bait to get started and check feed response and next to make the catch
Yep!
Thanks for sharing Matt. We will give your baits a try and report back. Hope my orders of flatworms get here before the ice.
Thanks!
Thanks Matt, this lake in my area I've mentioned before that is NOTHING like any lake for over 300 miles. It deep, VERY steep, and gin clear spring feed. It has lots of water shield near the bank, then it has hydrilla, going deep into soft bottom with lots of wood and old standing timber. This lake was made is a super hilly area of a national forest, and they left a bunch of trees standing. They have a ski area near the dam but the rest of the lake has so much wood at or just below the water line it is idle speed only. Most times you can't look down and see fish because it's dark. the way I tell the approx. water clarity is sticking something like a white top water bait as deep as I can. I can still see it clearly at 7 feet. i wish I could get you on my boat and have you show me how to fish this lake. Sometimes I catch them, and other times I can't find them. Thanks for another great video!. BTW, it's hard to graph the areas because of the timber Where I catch most fish is on brush piles at the edge of the hydrilla with a wacky worm with a weed guard on the hook. If you get a chance look up Lake Okhissa. It's about 1100 acres.
Will do
TRD CrawZ™ on a Charlie brewer pro slider head T-rigged is awesome as well in clear water..
I’ll give it a try
We have a lot of clear water here in Washington state. Thanks for the juice!
Anytime!
Outstanding your like a library appreciate your time.
Haha!
Cut my teeth on Table rock then moved to AZ where waters even clearer….have had to learn to fish florida grass🤣! Great spot on comments Matt thx!
Thanks!
Excellent observations and tips, Matt.
Glad it was helpful!
Another great video Matt, your killing it. Your 2nd place finish last week proves your prowess in clear water.
Alot of clubs around here that have monthly team tournaments have 2 or 3 night tournaments per year. I would be very interested in watching a video that you discuss night time baits amd tactics on clear water and stained water. Keep the great videos coming.
I’ll put it on my list!
Hey Matt! Living close to Lanier, I don’t see super clear gin clear water. I was just about to say spybait , and you brought it up. Ha ha. Over the past few years that has worked great on Lanier to. Awesome tips!
It’s a great clear water bait!
Matt, thank you for making this latest video!
After watching it I came up with an idea for you. What if you made you guppy head withe a flat bottom to it so it will have a wobble to it like the Berkley spybait. If a 2.8in wobbles on the fall and when reeling in slowly I think it will have have great action!
Thanks again for all of your knowledge.
Eric
Great idea!
Nailed it again Matt. Clear water is a great ally for finding fish. Pelagic colored tube with 1/8 oz head retrived fast like a jerk bait, high rod tip allows the tube to break the surface of the water simulating a fleeing baitfish. Pelagic colored fluke with a weightless EWG screw lock hook, same retrieve as above.
Both have the ability to spiral down when one decides to kill the action usually done when ya see chasers behind these baits.
Enjoying your vids keep up the great work.
Jules - please define “pelagic” colored. Thanks.
@@warefisher baitfish color. Shad, threadfin herring, emerald shiners, spot tail minnows.
Or.... whites, silvers, blues, gray.
@@warefisher m.bassmaster.com/blog/kvd-its-all-about-baitfish
The term Pelagic is usually tied to saltwater fisheries..... but it tranfers to freshwater fisheries as well.
@@juleswinnfield826 So natural-colored baits. Thanks.
Great tip! Thanks for sharing!
Great video. Concise, packed with useful information. Solid stuff. I am curious on your thoughts if you can run a choppo a bit faster in the conditions you outlined.
Yes you can. try burning it and youll get some crazy blowups
Good info. I'd add a 5in Fluke style bait like a zoom super fluke. Excellent less snag top water option. My most productive clear option has been a 4in green pumpkin Swim Senko on a VMC finesse rugby jig head. You seem to like Berkley plastics. How do you get around how they 1)react with and melt other plastics and 2) dry out and get hard?
I dont have an issue with them reacting with other plastics, but i just keep them zipped up in the bag they come in.
Thanks this is why Matt's the best .From Ohio
Thank you!
Matt knows he’s stuff thanks for the info
Thanks for watching!
Here’s a good vid idea. Which jerkbait under which conditions. Not color but brand.
Good idea!
I been fishing a clear lake where I literally watch fish come to the bait but not even try to nibble hope this helps
thanks for sharing
Awesome video great info.
Thanks!
Have you tried the berkley craw fattie its on of my favorites
I have and like it!
Great info.
Thanks Mike!
Great tips!
Thanks!
Hey Matt I seen your trailer at the ramp today didnt see you on the river but you got the work ethic I wanted to say hi but you are out till dark jeez I left at 8 or so and your pretty boat was not at the landing. Good luck Boss hope to Meet you before the tournament
Got to find the fish! But it was a long day that’s for sure
@@MattStefanFishing You will Boss you will trust me on that one
Would you use chatter bate and if so what color?
Yes green pumpkin
Have you ever used black colored lures in clear water? Have you had success on them?
yes and yes. i love black in clear water especially for smallmouth
I would love to have some clear water around here. I would love to be able to know by sight if the fish are around. I just have to fish it and find out
Yep
Caught my first frog fish today with some new legs. Got anything on a spoon Ga.
Yep! I’ll put it on the list
Thanks Matt, I’ll be fishing a small, super-clear lake in Michigan this June. I was completely skunked there for a week 2 years ago, but I know that there’s big smallmouth in there because I caught a boatload the year before. This video should really help!
glad to help!
Would you consider lake Murray in SC a clear or semi clear. On the lower end
clear
What’s weird is I prefer fishing clear water. I think I have more confidence too
Me too!
Square bill’s too
Thanks for sharing
I can’t find anything specific to 5-10 ft range in the Midwest
bummer
Matt here is my background use to fish running partner was Doug Garrett. Reason I wanted you to contact me is I am in a position to maybe meet up with you on some prefishing at some waters so I can bring my boat and brush up on my game been out this since 2001 but I understand if not. I'm not going to be competing against you in anything yet...lol but please consider at least calling me
I’m not allowed to get information or prefish with anyone
@@MattStefanFishing that's a shame back in the day you could take a friend family etc. to practice before it went off limits. That's how you introduce new people. They made it a lonely man's sport I guess
@@rickvann3489 it changed last year
I was going to say spybait, but then you closed with it
Nice!