Favorite Dirty Water Spinner Bait ? 2025

ChrisD46 reply :

*My local reservoir has gone from the water level being 9 ft. down to now 11 ft. over full pool in only two weeks (lots of rain in North Georgia !) ... My question is what is your favorite dirty (muddy) water spinner bait to throw in low visibility water conditions ? I'm thinking either a single Colorado blade (gold) or a dual Colorado blade (gold / gold , gold / silver or gold / orange) with a chartreuse & white head and skirt in either a 3/8th oz. or 1/2 oz. size ? ... Now I see the Booyah Covert series with a number of combinations of red head or orange head ; single or double Colorado blades ; blue / chartreuse / while skirt or chartreuse / white skirt (I think like 18 different versions of the Booyah Covert alone just for dirty water) . It can become a bit daunting plus expensive to try and cover the variegating degrees of dirty water spinner bait combinations with the Booyah Covert series spinner baits . Nothing against Booyah (or Jason Christie) - I'm just looking for a simpler formula to pick a spinner bait for dirty water which may possibly even transition to stained water ? What has worked for you as a dirty water spinner bait ? Thanks in advance ...

MIbassyaker reply :

Of the spinnerbaits I own, a War Eagle with dual copper Indiana blades, chartreuse/copper skirt is my favorite for this sort of thing.

In general coppers, oranges & reds have a visibility advantage in muddy, brownish water over other colors based on light penetration. Also, many variations of chartreuse have some fluorescence that adds to visibility when there is low light penetration. Blacks and whites are fine choices anywhere, any time.

scaleface reply :

The old Strike King Spin Dance with silver Turtle back blades and chartreuse/white skirt . .

riverat reply :

For "dirty" water I have two spinner baits that I really on. One has a #3 red or chartreuse colorado blade in front of a #5 Colorado blade that is copper. The other has a single #5 colorado in copper.

I use two different skirts - either a white/chartreuse/yellow shirt or a blue/chartreuse/white skirt. I also use a 4" curly tail grub in silk chartreuse or yellow colors.

FishTank reply :

This guy from War Eagle....

jimmyjoe reply :

1/2 oz. Northland Reed Runner, single Colorado. I don't worry about the color of the blade, I try to get the skirt right. I figure that the flash of ANY blade in muddy water is insignificant below 2 feet of depth, but the contrast of a white or chartreuse skirt is significant right down to the bottom. And contrast is what I want.

I fish the Mississippi river and tributaries. Muddy water is normal. jj

P.S. - Because of a thread here awhile back, I intend to try black-and-copper spinnerbaits this year, but I'm not there yet. And neither is the weather.

Edited February 24 by jimmyjoe

Munkin reply :

Strike King midnight special black with a black blade.

Allen

DitchPanda reply :

I use single and double Colorado's with gold blades...skirt usually has chartreuse in it...this year in gonna throw a few singles with black skirt and size 6 copper colorado

Catt reply :

Stanley's Vibra Shaft ????

Bluebasser86 reply :

Couldn't ever find one that I really liked, so I made one.

ChrisD46 reply :

Thanks for replies to date - this gives me some combinations to key in on .

Derek1 reply :

On 2/24/2020 at 10:47 AM, Munkin said:

Strike King midnight special black with a black blade.

Allen

That’s a great bait. You can really crawl it slow in the dark/dirty water.

MIbassyaker reply :

All these spinnerbait threads are getting me excited.

Still hard water here, and over a month and a half yet before I can get out anyway... but by then it will be spinnerbait season and I'll be ready.

Fishes in trees reply :

I've had a few of those allegedly dirty water spinnerbaits with the red forward blade on them. War Eagle markets a few different ones & Terminator used to. Never got bit on one of those spinnerbaits which had a red blade on them. Don't know why, except I didn't. I think that in shallow muddy water, with visibility less than a foot, a chatter bait with a kinda bright white/chartruese trailer or a Timber Tiger DC4 are better bets. Favored Timber Tiger color in this situation would be the Texas Shad color, white belly shading up to a silvery back, rose colored tinges on the side. spot of red underneath the lip.

I have had a couple of days where fish didn't want the Timber Tiger, and I didn't know about chatter baits yet (yes, it has been a while) and the ticket those days was a half ounce Rogers glass eye single spin bait. chartreuse & purple with a white/chartruese BPS Cajun trailer and a single Colorado blade in the copper color.

scaleface reply :

On 2/25/2020 at 1:16 AM, Fishes in trees said:

I've had a few of those allegedly dirty water spinnerbaits with the red forward blade on them. War Eagle markets a few different ones & Terminator used to. Never got bit on one of those spinnerbaits which had a red blade on them.

A white Blakemore spinnerbait with red blades at one time was a local favorite here. I assembled one last year but never got around to using it . I used them back in the 70's but didnt have a ton of success .Caught some with it .

I was fishing a club tourney about that time and the guy I was fishing with won it with a chartreuse bait with chartreuse Colorado blades . He culled both days , 10 fish limits and I weighed in three total . I didnt have an all chartreuse bait . The best luck I had with painted blades was a Fleck Weed Wader . It had a grey and white skirt with white Indiana blades . I'm going to assemble one similar the next time I pour .

greentrout reply :

It's a Humdinger ... proudly made in La. ...

iabass8 reply :

@Siebert OutdoorsMakes a super duper single CO blade spinnerbait. If you bug him enough, he'll even get you a gold blade. ????

Tackleholic reply :

Single gold Colorado blade, Firetiger skirt.

Smalls reply :

I've got an all gold War Eagle in 3/8 with a white/gold skirt and huuge gold Colorado blade that's done great in dirty water for me.

Catt reply :

Humdinger ????

JediAmoeba reply :

My go to is a 2 bladed - Indiana for the back blade and a colorado for the front blade.

ChrisD46 reply :

*I picked up a new Covert (Booyah) 1/2 oz. spinnerbait :

#5 single Colorado blade (gold)

Blue / Chartreuse skirt

Red Head

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I went with what I felt was a spinnerbait set up that would work in muddy to stained water . There is also a Covert series in florescent orange head but in a 1/2 oz. size that thing is extra bright ! … I believed the model above I picked out might possibly have greater usage as our water does not stay muddy / stained full time (just during late winter / early Spring rains).

GreenPig reply :

Red/black works pretty good.

scaleface reply :

This talk of dirty water spinnerbaits gave me the itch to make a new one . It might be a little blade heavy and come in upside down but I separated the blades quite a bit because that is suppose to keep the bait stable and not break the surface . I guess I'll find out . The blade is actually copper , looks gold in the photo and has some plastic melted on the blade , it rubbed off .

TriStateBassin106 reply :

I use the War Eagle Finesse Spinnerbait in Sun Perch and Blue Herring in almost any body of water I fish, it works greats on Baitcasters and has a Indiana Blade which is a good combination of Willow and Colorado. They're on Tackle Warehouse.

scaleface reply :

I fish lakes where the water gets extremely muddy , two inches of visibility . The bass always move shallow because there is zero light penetration after just a few feet . I use to have a light meter on a probe that confirmed this . Bass also wll hang tight to cover . Spinnerbaits are one of the top lures . Bass will not see the lure until its close but they will feel it with the lateral line . Bright colored baits will become visible when bass get close enough . I've had best luck with chartreuse . Colorado blades displace the most water but a willow is not going to go by unnoticed . Those turtle back Oklahoma style blades have worked real well for me .

ChrisD46 reply :

On 3/2/2020 at 11:07 PM, scaleface said:

I fish lakes where the water gets extremely muddy , two inches of visibility . The bass always move shallow because there is zero light penetration after just a few feet . I use to have a light meter on a probe that confirmed this . Bass also wll hang tight to cover . Spinnerbaits are one of the top lures . Bass will not see the lure until its close but they will feel it with the lateral line . Bright colored baits will become visible when bass get close enough . I've had best luck with chartreuse . Colorado blades displace the most water but a willow is not going to go by unnoticed . Those turtle back Oklahoma style blades have worked real well for me .

*Oklahoma blades are gaining popularity and fill a niche as follows : Willow -> Oklahoma > Indiana -> Colorado blades .

walt-14 reply :

I know i'm probably in the minority here because I do believe there are better quality spinnerbaits out there, but the best luck i've ever had is on a Strike King Premium Spinnerbait in Firetiger. Double willow blade in gold and silver with the firetiger color really sticking out has been killer for me in stained water.

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