Hot weather struggles

Chris Rennert wrote:

... hot!!!! 90's and humid.
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If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Budweiser.

;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in
drought conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and
humid. I have been fishing areas that have historically produced for
me, but there are slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish
feeding on them, but they are all small. The Walleye guys are
struggling, we have no current in our river, so when an east wind blows
it backs up our river and makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a
few out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Chris

"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in
drought conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and
humid. I have been fishing areas that have historically produced for
me, but there are slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish
feeding on them, but they are all small. The Walleye guys are
struggling, we have no current in our river, so when an east wind blows
it backs up our river and makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a
few out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Chris

Look for deep holes with trapped fish. There is a river near where I live
(not boatable most of the time) that will flood every few years, and when it
recedes it leaves some deep holes for a few years that will hold some big
fish trapped. I spent a lot of time walking this river as a kid.


--
Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Chris Rennert wrote:


... hot!!!! 90's and humid.
snip
If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D


Budweiser.

;-)

Ken,

I tried COors light , and that didn't work, maybe Budweiser will do the
trick :-D

Chris

"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
Chris Rennert wrote:


... hot!!!! 90's and humid.
snip
If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D


Budweiser.

;-)

Ken,

I tried COors light , and that didn't work, maybe Budweiser will do the
trick :-D

Chris

Deeper water and a good, cold, dark ale.

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:59:32 -0500, Chris Rennert
sent into the ether:

Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in
drought conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and
humid. I have been fishing areas that have historically produced for
me, but there are slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish
feeding on them, but they are all small. The Walleye guys are
struggling, we have no current in our river, so when an east wind blows
it backs up our river and makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a
few out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Chris
Chris,
I think you are going for the best bet during these conditions. The
big W doesn't have any really deep water and if there is no current in
the river you may as well hit the heaviest cover you can find.

That is what I have been doing on my favorite shallow lake here.
Moderate success Sunday morning with 6 keepers. A 3+, and the rest 1
1/2 to 2 1/2. Heavy cover was the key. Probly caught 10 dinks also.

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All my fish have been deep on jigs, if any were in shallow water they were
stuck up in the weeds and hitting spinnerbaits when I pulled them through,
stop and pause retrieve has been working well. I have had real good success
with terminator stainless series, particularly the red checker pattern. I
have been throwing FLW jigs and using the bottom half of the zoom brush hogs
as a trailer.. fishing at night in the shallows has been fun and
cool......:-)


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wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:59:32 -0500, Chris Rennert
sent into the ether:

Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in
drought conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and
humid. I have been fishing areas that have historically produced for
me, but there are slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish
feeding on them, but they are all small. The Walleye guys are
struggling, we have no current in our river, so when an east wind blows
it backs up our river and makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a
few out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Chris
Chris,
I think you are going for the best bet during these conditions. The
big W doesn't have any really deep water and if there is no current in
the river you may as well hit the heaviest cover you can find.

That is what I have been doing on my favorite shallow lake here.
Moderate success Sunday morning with 6 keepers. A 3+, and the rest 1
1/2 to 2 1/2. Heavy cover was the key. Probly caught 10 dinks also.

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Fish!!!

Hey Chris,

Unless your a die hard lure fisherman, what works for me in the dog days it
seems, is fishing the breaks that you know normally hold fish with a slip
bobber and shiner. Pitch right to the weed lines. (I've been finding them
in about 15 to 18 feet of water in daylight) I agree with you, the fish are
very lethargic lately, understandably with this weather! I've been pulling
some decent fish lately with this method though. I too like fishing lures
mostly, but during the day, it is tough. At night time, back to the
Pop-R's, Jitterbugs, or dark colored Plow Jockey's, Carolina rigged and
worked slow!
Good Luck!

Hope this helps and keep us posted!,

Doug


"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
. ..
Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in drought
conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and humid. I have
been fishing areas that have historically produced for me, but there are
slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish feeding on them,
but they are all small. The Walleye guys are struggling, we have no
current in our river, so when an east wind blows it backs up our river and
makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a few
out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D

Chris

"Chris Rennert" wrote in message
. ..
Hey all, I have to be honest, I have been struggling during this warm
snap. I have been fishing, rocks, weeds, drops offs, and everything in
between. Fishing has just been terrible. Water is low, we are in
drought conditions here actually, and it has been hot!!!! 90's and
humid. I have been fishing areas that have historically produced for
me, but there are slim pickins! I am finding schools of shad, even fish
feeding on them, but they are all small. The Walleye guys are
struggling, we have no current in our river, so when an east wind blows
it backs up our river and makes things even worse.

I am going out tonight, armed with a push pole and I hope I can pull a
few out of the more dense weeds that hardly get touched.

If anyone has any tips for this kind of situation please share :-D


I agree with the other fellas here, find deeper water, and take some
beverages and bug spray and hope for the best. Temps here for the past
couple o'weeks (here=NC) have been mid 90s with heat indicies over 100º
every day. To find fish here now you either go deep, or to a restaurant.

Chris

Heres another riddle for hot weather, dog-days bass fishing. How would
you guys fish a lake that won't support fish in deep water. There's an
Army Corps of Engineers lake near my house, about 1100 acres with a max
depth of between 60 an 70 feet. A few years ago, one of the local
university professors started studdiing this lake. In an acticle in
the newspaper, that because there was so much algae in the lake and no
weeds, that there wasn't enough oxygen in the lake below a depth of
about 10 or 12 feet to support fish. How would you guys tackel a lake
like this? Or would you do what I usually end up doing and fnding
another place to fish?