When the water is high and off color, is it time to fish or cut bait?
No, you don’t need live bait, dead bait, stink bait or any other kind of bait at all to catch fish during runoff. But you do need to select something from your bag of tricks that gives the fish a reason to strike (which is almost always true) and something that also broadcasts its availability to the fish, which is something you may have to think about whenever the water is murky and cold.