On Jul 30, 7:04 pm, (John B) wrote:
A few months ago I was catching all the bass I wanted to in my
""little"" lake. As temps went up, and stayed in the 90's, I have to
work really hard to catch em now .

I asked my kid for some advice....he said, "Dad, you have to take the
good with the bad, it will cool off in the fall.", Then he laughed and
said just do it deeper and slower.

But, he doesn't know everything....just what I taught him grin.

So, how 'bout some "hot" weather tips for a
shallow lake that is strictly bank fishing.

Thanks....John K

Well... I am guessing that you need to do some ninja bass fishing
with your float tube, a sounder, and a gps to locate submerged cover
and structure. Then you can spend more time casting directly to the
high percentage spots when pounding the bank later.

Some places you may be able to intuit by studying the the water and
the surrounding bank. Walk all the way around the lake a couple times
without a fishing rod in your hand. It just might pay off for you.
Look for places that would indicate naturally deeper structure or
cover near deeper water. Grass beds that go out away on a point and
then suddenly disappears. A fallen tree that seems like it is
sticking up a bit on the shallow side may indicate a drop off. Any
noticeable water runoff, rivlet, dry wash, etc will indicate a shallow
flat with a ridge just beyon and then slightly deeper water beyond the
ridge.

If I recall you already use spinning tackle so you should be able to
cast small baits as far as is practical to reach your targets. You
may need to downsize line to maximize this.

Another thing you can try is to look for water temps. My dad used to
have a thermometer he would lower down on a line, leave at a certain
depth for a few minutes and then reel in very fast to check the water
temp at that depth. It was specifically made for this. You could
possibley locate a channel or ditch or deep hole that way, by finding
cooler water. It would be slow time consuming work to do it that way,
but it could be done. If you decide to try this make it a seperate
outing from your visual walk study I mentioned above. I think its
better to initially focus on one type of study at a time, and then put
the pieces together and combining and learning from both on later
explorations.


Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com