Just my humble opinion about fishing hot water

[Patrick Fleming]

Well I've fish 5-6 times a week for the last 2 months mostly in the afternoon/evening after work. During the hottest part of the day up to dark 30... And have water temps from 87-92 degrees and caught fish every time out.

Water temp can be misleading. First, that is surface temp, with you where to deep down 4-5 feet below the surface, the temp will be 5-7 degrees cooler. The deeper you go the cooler the water gets.

There is a reason why you can still catch fish in swallow water with high water temps.. Its call cover, anything from standing timber, lay-downs, docks, bush-piles, lidypads , and grass beds, provide SHADE, shade means cooler temps and cover means bait fish, which mean bass will follow..

But if you want to consistently catch fish in the dog days of summer, you need to be able to locate and know how to fish deep water structure. Deep water can be anything from a drop off or ledge where the water drops from 3 ft to 10 ft  or a point the runs from the bank out drown to 30 + ft of water.. any sudden change in depth will hold fish.

As long as you handle the fish right, it will survive.... Don't handle/ touch/ or rub the fishes body, this removes it protective slime, which inturn, puts stress on the fish and in most cases of released fish's deaths, this is the main reason...

Here a hot water (88 degree's) water temp caught a few weeks ago... The heat is harder on me then it is on the fish....