Muddy water/partly cloudy or clear skys

[harrisjl]

I ran a search for threads with 'muddy water' in the thread title and got a pretty good idea about where I need to make changes but still have a few questions. The lake I'm fishing after work on week days has been pretty muddy as of late. There are a number of laydowns, a stump field (at least a dozen and looks man made), a man made structure, a spill way, and a few trees in the lake. There is a lot of open water. I had some luck this week. Caught a few small bass on a Carolina rigged green watermelon finese worm pretty close to the bank. I'm fishing from the bank.

This is my current tackle arsenal - http://www.bassfishin.com/bassfishin...9&postcount=16

I haven't had any luck with the crankbait (wasn't playing the structures in the water correctly) or spinnerbait (tandem blades) or surface lures. I've been playing mostly open water (there are quite a few fish hitting the surface on the open water and I did read to play structures tighter). I'm going to pick up a couple of spinners with a single Colorado blade (prolly chartreuse/white, black) I'll try the buzz bait again when I can get out on a weekend morning and try close to the bank and close to structures. From what I read I should use dark colors in overcast skys and bright colors on clear skys.

1. Worm/lizard colors I have - pumpkin with black dots, pumpkin/chartreuse tail, black/blue tail, green/chartreuse tail, Green watermelon with red glitter in it, flouresent light green with red blue and purple glitter in them/chartreuse tail LOL (I'm dying to try the latter on a bright sunny day). Which colors would be best for muddy water on a clear sky vrs. overcast sky??

2. Do surface lures like pop-rs, spooks, torpedos work in muddy water??

3. crankbait (I have Rat-l-traps - chrome blue backs and gold blackbacks) are these okay in muddy water or should I go for a specific color or type??

4. Wut the heck are you guise talking about when you say 'point'

I've only been trying to fish for bass less than a half dozen times so be gentle