Summer Fun Fishing (NOT)

[Bucky205]

We fished a 7 hour night tournament last night and it was tough.  Water temp was 90 degrees, winds about 12 mph NE, 1/2 moon low on the horizon.  We caught 4, 3 right at 12" and one about 14".  What was strange is that we couldn't even find shad on the electronics. We fished everything from finesse, spinners, cranks from the surface to the bottom which is about 30'.  We tried flipping grass, and jigs under docks right at dark.  Everyone seemed to have had a tough night.  Two boats tied with right at 10 lbs, with the winner having the largest big fish. August is always a tough month in Alabama when the water gets 90 and higher they seem to vanish.  Some of you people with warm water jump in and tell me where your finding the bite?

[WDE]

41 minutes ago, Bucky205 said:

We fished a 7 hour night tournament last night and it was tough.  Water temp was 90 degrees, winds about 12 mph NE, 1/2 moon low on the horizon.  We caught 4, 3 right at 12" and one about 14".  What was strange is that we couldn't even find shad on the electronics. We fished everything from finesse, spinners, cranks from the surface to the bottom which is about 30'.  We tried flipping grass, and jigs under docks right at dark.  Everyone seemed to have had a tough night.  Two boats tied with right at 10 lbs, with the winner having the largest big fish. August is always a tough month in Alabama when the water gets 90 and higher they seem to vanish.  Some of you people with warm water jump in and tell me where your finding the bite?

 

I'm in Memphis and it's been tough for bank fishing as well. Our water temps also seem to hover in the low to mid 90s. Shaded parts of ponds are almost the only place they're hitting. Senkos and cranks, usually around 5pm or later. Hopefully we get an early Fall, but I'm not holding my breath. 

[Ktho]

Just looking at your area, something like this point at Logan Martin would be what I'm looking for:https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@14&key={ktkEtbemO

 

Points and humps would be what I'm looking for, especially those that get kissed by the river channel and ledges on the outside edge of the channel bends.

 

I'm not sure how much different it'd fish those cause we don't have any lakes even close to the river lakes out here.

[ohboyitsrobby]

Waters about 90 here in Arkansas too. We've been catching all out fish pretty much on humps during the day finesse fishing. Shakey head drop shot some on a swimbait. At night only caught em texas rigging an ol monster on brush piles. 

[Bucky205]

5 minutes ago, Ktho said:

Just looking at your area, something like this point at Logan Martin would be what I'm looking for:https://webapp.navionics.com/?lang=en#boating@14&key={ktkEtbemO

 

Points and humps would be what I'm looking for, especially those that get kissed by the river channel and ledges on the outside edge of the channel bends.

 

I'm not sure how much different it'd fish those cause we don't have any lakes even close to the river lakes out here.

We fished the ones on the North side down close to the bridge.  That's where 3 of our fish came from.  I keep thinking there has got to be a stream flowing in somewhere offering some cooler water, haven't ever found it.  August is tough here, friend fished Saturday morning 5 to 11 without a bite.

 

[gim]

90 degree water temperatures?  That's like a bath tub.  No wonder the fish aint biting, they're roasting in that.

[lonnie g]

I'm coming to lay lake 1 couple of weeks in august. throw some ice in the water for me! we usually fish rocky points using a greenpumkin red finess worm on bullet or football shacky head. also rattling roug or red eyed shad  seems to work. and usually just before dark a pop r next to weeds isn't bad. looking forward to bama I always have fun.   

[Bucky205]

1 hour ago, lonnie g said:

I'm coming to lay lake 1 couple of weeks in august. throw some ice in the water for me! we usually fish rocky points using a greenpumkin red finess worm on bullet or football shacky head. also rattling roug or red eyed shad  seems to work. and usually just before dark a pop r next to weeds isn't bad. looking forward to bama I always have fun.   

Your lure choices look good. Rogue is a good producer here, and a green pumpkin shaky head is the go to here. I might throw in a white spinnerbait with tandem silver willows in case I need to go hunting.  Alabama Power Shorelines has a free app that shows you the turbine schedule on the dams for all the coosa river lakes, the bite tends to be better when they are pulling water.

[Bucky205]

Tuesday night the bite turned on. Water temp was 88.7 degrees, wind 4 mph out of the NW, everything else was basically the same conditions.  We had both a direction shift, and a wind speed reduction.  I've never put a lot of thought into wind direction and the bite. Normally it's other things driving when I can fish besides the wind. Could the wind have caused the bite to improve?

[Doelman]

Hey Pell City, Pelham here.  I've noticed the fish starting to school up in the last few weeks, if you can find them they'll usually bite shad imitations.  Finesse fishing brush piles next to deeper water has been good along with grassy points.  If I can't find them anywhere, I've been throwing a swim jig parallel to the bank and had some luck.  It's tough right now but interestingly enough, I absolutely killed them last Sunday morning when you were struggling that night.  The water has been cooling down since we've come off that mini heat wave, I imagine the fishing should be getting a bit better, our highs are in the mid 80s for the next 10 days.

 

 

[Bucky205]

6 hours ago, Doelman said:

Hey Pell City, Pelham here.  I've noticed the fish starting to school up in the last few weeks, if you can find them they'll usually bite shad imitations.  Finesse fishing brush piles next to deeper water has been good along with grassy points.  If I can't find them anywhere, I've been throwing a swim jig parallel to the bank and had some luck.  It's tough right now but interestingly enough, I absolutely killed them last Sunday morning when you were struggling that night.  The water has been cooling down since we've come off that mini heat wave, I imagine the fishing should be getting a bit better, our highs are in the mid 80s for the next 10 days.

 

 

Hey Doelman,  Thanks for the info. I couldn't even find shad Saturday night, and Tuesday they were everywhere.