short strikes

[newbasser78]

last night we were fishing a lake we usually fish twice a week. we almost always throw white spinner baits with colorado blades and chartreuse trailers. usually catch a dozen or so in about two hours. last night the lake was a couple feet low and we starte out as we always do. the fish were hitting the bait but wer just not holding on to it. i changed to chartreuse because the water seemed to be dirtier than usual thinking that might help. they wouldn't even hit that bait. we ended up cathing about 6 or 7. only one was really decent 5lbs. all the others were relatively small less than 2 pounds. i tried switching to brush hogs fished em real slow. still nothing. any suggestions on what one should do when they are getting "short strikes".