Summer Fishing

[Hallman]

What works best for you in the dead of summer?

I have had some recent success in the late evening hours with slow working plastics.

Anyone have mid-day success? What lures do you have the most success with during the dog days of summer?

Thanks

[roadwarrior]

Most big bass are caught between 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM.

[dale.m]

I've had midday success with t-rigged Zoom Trick Worms.

[Miller's Ferry 8]

I don't even have to think about this one. Mid-day use a deep diving crankbait on ledges in about ten to fifteen feet of water. Just make sure your retrieve is slow and your crankbait is on bottom.

[JamesD]

I tend to fish early in t he AM in one particular spot... I left the house today at 5 and was on the water casting by 5:25am....

I find that top water, and buzz bait really work well for me.... Then again, I don't know how to, and have never successfully fished with worm, but it would seem to me that it might also work well.

The water I fish in most days is too shallow for cranks, That's just the life of shore-fishing.

[MCS]

I've had midday success with t-rigged Zoom Trick Worms.

That is my go to! Red shad, yesterday I got a hit almost every cast right before this weather front was coming through. Even on a slow day they will produce at least a few.

[MCS]

I tend to fish early in t he AM in one particular spot... I left the house today at 5 and was on the water casting by 5:25am....

I find that top water, and buzz bait really work well for me.... Then again, I don't know how to, and have never successfully fished with worm, but it would seem to me that it might also work well.

The water I fish in most days is too shallow for cranks, That's just the life of shore-fishing.

I fish from shore pretty much same time, now with my son in school I am done by 7. Usually I start top water, popper or zoom toad and end with a worm. Around here the water is shallow or too vegetated to fish cranks etc. The worms do the job, I never fished them much or had success up north, but once you get the hang of it you won't stop using them. You tube vids helped me. A "trick for your trick worm" was the one that sticks out the most and it works.

[mikeeasttn]

Roadwarrior is right about the large bass at least for myself. All the larger bass I have caught come during midday and bluebird skies.

[new2BC4bass]

I tend to fish early in t he AM in one particular spot... I left the house today at 5 and was on the water casting by 5:25am....

I find that top water, and buzz bait really work well for me.... Then again, I don't know how to, and have never successfully fished with worm, but it would seem to me that it might also work well.

The water I fish in most days is too shallow for cranks, That's just the life of shore-fishing.

I would think a worm could be one of your better baits. Hook it weedless and weightless. S-L-O-W-L-Y work it back to you. Don't be afraid to throw it into the weeds. Has to be a couple articles on this site about worm fishing. Yup. A good article to start with is this one. http://www.bassresou...rm_fishing.html

[AK-Jax86]

I have had more late day success using senkos and other soft plastics, and I have even had some success using spinner baits, but that depends on the pond that I am fishing in

[Hallman]

Good feedback everyone!

Thanks

[Nitrofreak]

In the dead of summer when the fish are no longer shallow, or the shallow bite stops, I head for structure in the deeper parts of my lake, looking for channel bends and shelfs, my go to bait is a 3/4 oz Strike King jig with either a Rage Craw or a Lobster.

[countryfried]

earley morning is what i reach for .

[tommy7373]

without a doubt in the summer I go to a floro line 8lb test and use shakey head worms. I have been tearing them up on the shakey head. work it slow and you cant go wrong. caught 9 great bass today on a shakey head with a zoom finesse worm. it was 106 degress out today in Athens GA

Shake it up Shakey Head!!!!

[Bassn Blvd]

It has been VERY widy here in S.Florida lately and 1/2oz Rtraps have been producing for me.

[Jigfishn10]

In the dead of summer when the fish are no longer shallow, or the shallow bite stops, I head for structure in the deeper parts of my lake, looking for channel bends and shelfs, my go to bait is a 3/4 oz Strike King jig with either a Rage Craw or a Lobster.

You made a great post!

Head for the next breakline near deep water look for structure or even better, stucture on structure or cover on structure.

[BassinMD]

On really hot days a always try 3 methods until I find them, deep ledge cranking/ football head I give them 2 speeds and diff presentations, If I have no luck then I move to frogs and find thick shallow cover, just rinse and repeat and you will get into them eventually

[Mad Fisherman]

I usually use Gary Yamamoto's but one time, while using a light rod with a little panfish crankbait in the middle of the day(it was probably over 95 degrees) nothing worked all day, but when I used that, I caught a 6 lb bass.

[Highhawk1948]

Middle of the day, sloping points and banks at the 6 to 8 foot depth of water using 1/4 oz. drop shot rig, watermelon red 4 and 5 inch worms, (sometimes rigged wacky on the drop shot), 10 # test mono on spinning gear. Also flipping grass lines in 4 plus foot water with watermelon red flipper by Lake Fork with pegged 3/16 oz. titanium slip sinker, 17# test mono.

[Gatorbassman]

For me Summer is more about where than what I fish with. You can't catch them if they aren't there.

I start off with a map in my hand and look for long tapering points that go all the way to the the creek of river channel. I also look for humps out in deeper water. (10 to 30ft deep) The I get on the water and head to those spots. I turn on my depth finder and motor over the spot several times. I set the depth on my finder to double what the bottom is. What I'm looking for is the strong double echo that only rocks and very hard bottom gives off. If I'm shallower I'm also looking for grass. These are the kind of spots that I mark and come back to after I've checked a few other places. Then and only then will I pull out my four rods. (Carolina Rig, Dropshot, Deep Crankbait, and Jig) I fish them very slowly and try to stay in contact with the bottom while working each. I will make hundreds of casts to the spots from all different angles and so far this summer I haven't been skunked.

[streamwalker]

it may not be the absolute best way to fish but honestly i dont care..i only use spinners when i fish unless im fly fishing..i produce the most amount of fish off of just different colored spinners and i catch fish on rivers lakes and ponds with them..so they are really all i use. call me stupid but thats what us rednecks use..and ive been tought to use them by my dad..they may not be giant bass but when im on a kayak or in the river wading i just like catching fish haha.

[JSPOONE]

it may not be the absolute best way to fish but honestly i dont care..i only use spinners when i fish unless im fly fishing..i produce the most amount of fish off of just different colored spinners and i catch fish on rivers lakes and ponds with them..so they are really all i use. call me stupid but thats what us rednecks use..and ive been tought to use them by my dad..they may not be giant bass but when im on a kayak or in the river wading i just like catching fish haha.

Im the same way im using my spinners more than anything i catch more fish with them.. but if not getting bite ill switch to my shakey head with a black worm which never fails for me

[maverick212]

Ive had some luck off of frogs throwing in thick cover, poppers, pumpkin 4-5'' lizards, and super hogs. heat is making them lethargic and forcing them to swim low.At least in North Carolina it is.

[MultiSpeciesFisherman]

I actually have been doing better in the evening, and particularly just before nightfall, than I have been at any other time of the day.

[redboat]

In the dead of summer when the fish are no longer shallow, or the shallow bite stops, I head for structure in the deeper parts of my lake, looking for channel bends and shelfs, my go to bait is a 3/4 oz Strike King jig with either a Rage Craw or a Lobster.

Interesting; this is the same logic I used two weekends back when my wife and I were fishing Toledo Bend. Water temp was around 88, and I knew a couple of creek channels that swung close to the bank and some 25-35 foot points we'd had success in the past. We fished all that deep stuff for two days, threw deep cranks, C-Rigs, T-rigs, jigs, and got NOTHING, nada, zip, zilch.

My wife had been bugging me all day to go try shallow water so about an hour before we had to leave . I finally said, "What the $^$#, I'll show you how wrong you are, there's no shallow bite when the water's 88 degrees, there are no clouds in the sky, and its noon!"

So I drove over to a shallow point and she caught a 6 lb bass in about 10 minutes in two feet of water using a weightless wacky rigged Senko. So much for "common sense".