It also creates an environment of limited visibility, and is a condition where walleyes can do extremely well. The mudline itself creates an ambush point, and a high percentage spot for contacting active fish. Proverbial mudlines develop when wind and waves crash into a shoreline, or across a flat, and stir up sediment. The mudline is the area where dark water meets clear. Wave action creates current, and can carry sediment twenty yards or more off shore, depending on how severe the conditions are.
Wind blown points can make for classic mudlines, and are relatively easy to distinguish.
You can actually see the distinct color change, and is an area where you should concentrate your efforts, providing there is accompanying structure. A mudline without an underwater point, break, or flat, really isn t worth much. However, if you can combine the two, you may really have something. Mudlines can range in size from tight little pockets holding downwind of point, to quarter mile long stretches of shorelines, depending on the conditions. Little pockets of mud are easy to pinpoint, and can be worked rather quickly.