what is the best fishing lure for cloudy days?

Answer 1

For Bass...Top water baits, or a double willow spinner bait waked.
A lot depends of the time of year, and water temp.
But where I live, if it is cloudy a front is moving in and I use top water first.

Answer 2

Clear Water: In clear and lightly stained waters, the most important thing to remember is to match the natural food items. When fishing with a minnow type lure, such as a tube bait or a shad shaped lure, try to use natural looking colors such as silver, smoke, gray, etc. When jigging near or on the bottom, try using browns or dark greens.

Dark/ Stained Water: In stained or muddy waters, the keys to attracting strikes are vibration and brightness. Because dark water filters out much of the sunlight, often the best fishing is during mid-day or bright sunlight times. The fish can see better with more light penetrating. Vibrations also thoroughly help fish to find forage in dark water, so a lure that produces these is usually a plus. Spinners, grubs, and jigs that are kept moving are usually good choices. Choose bright colors! Try using chartreusse, hot pink, white, yellow, hot green, etc. Sparkles are also good.

Cloudy Days: Cloudy, overcast days limit the amount of sunlight that reaches the fish. Try using colors that are slightly darker than you would normally use. Browns, greens, and even black are good colors to try on cloudy days. One of my favorites is a 2" black curly-tail grub with a yellow or chartreusse tail. The fish seen to pick up the combination of light and dark very well. I also use a small gold spinner with this grub or a topwater lure.

Bright Sunlight: Sunny days are usually fairly simple days to choose a lure color. Try the brightest color you have first. Chartreusse, white, yellow, and hot pinks and greens are favorites of mine. Try small silver or gold spinners to produce extra flash as well.

Night Fishing: try jet black lures, or combinations of black and other colors.

or try my personal favorite, the hydra fishing lure. Great for any day. below is the website to it incase you are interested.

Answer 3

I know this may sound odd but a rule of thumb I have always used Dark Lures on Dark Days, Bright on Bright.
Has to do with the silouette of the lure.
Colors are a reflection of light, when in low light a bright color does not have enough light to reflect to look bright and stand out the opposite for the dark color.

Answer 4

What kinda fish?

For trout I like a gold bladed spinner on cloudy days

For Bass I like topwater lures on cloudy days

Answer 5

Presumably a bright color.
But listen to me , i'm a lifelong fisher man and i never ever noticed any difference when using bright ly colored lures.Predatory fish are attracted to movement that imitates an injured baitfish because it's easy to catch them. The color is useful for the people who sell the lures . Fish dont care much about colors

Answer 6

nething that is a bright blue or some sort of neon color because dark lures will only blend in with the water and that doesn't help you.

Answer 7

Live worms work all of the time, cloudy or not.

Answer 8

A spinnerbait, use gold blades. If the water is murky use Colorado or Indiana blades, if the water is clear use a willow blade.