One of the lakes I often fish normaly has between 0 to about 3" of visibility. I've noticed a lot of guys just write a lake off if the water is stained with low to no visibility. I know most of us Socal guys are use to fishing clear water lakes and we do a lot of site fishing but once the bass have had a chance to aclimate they can and will bite very well in the chocalate milk. Stained water bass are definitely less weary too.

Although it's not ideal for us stained water base stand to really benifit during spawn. I think the fish at Castaic should be comming around. Regardless of the water color I'm thinking they should have increase in activity (appetite) going in to prespawn.

I've done well on spinnerbaits, rattle traps, black zipper worms (longer worms are better),black jigs (black trailor don't forget the rattles), tube jigs basically anything that gives a lot of vibration and displacment. Stick with dark colors, black/rd flake is my personal favorite in stained water. Good luck.

JerryG