Giving props to our southern anglers!

[12poundbass]

It’s 95 here in Michigan and the water temps are pushing 90 on my lake. I fished a bit during mid day and then the wife and I spent 2 hours from 5 to 7 fishing. We both melted! The fishing was good but I don’t know how you guys do it! We have at least another week of this ridiculous heat. I tip my hat to you southern anglers! 

[Hewhospeaksmuchbull]

112, here. With another three months to go.

 

Poor me, still fishing!

[BubbaBassin’]

Luckily we have storms keeping it lower here in east bama, our water temps are juuust peaking into 90.

[Bluegillslayer]

Its worth it for all the lunkers they catch!!!

[BrianMDTX]

So-o-o...I moved to the Houston area from Maryland last year. Everyone told me I’d hate the heat and humidity. 
 

This is my second summer. The heat and humidity here, IMHO, is not what it is back in Maryland. Here, there’s always at least some breeze. Back home, when it’s 90° plus and 95% humidity, it lays on you like a steaming sponge. 
 

It starts earlier and ends later here. But I can handle it better than I could back in the Mid-Atlantic area. 

[12poundbass]

10 minutes ago, BrianMDTX said:

So-o-o...I moved to the Houston area from Maryland last year. Everyone told me I’d hate the heat and humidity. 
 

This is my second summer. The heat and humidity here, IMHO, is not what it is back in Maryland. Here, there’s always at least some breeze. Back home, when it’s 90° plus and 95% humidity, it lays on you like a steaming sponge. 
 

It starts earlier and ends later here. But I can handle it better than I could back in the Mid-Atlantic area. 

Thankfully and I don’t understand why, but our humidity is minimal right now thankfully! It’s still sticky but not what it normally is when it’s 80-85. 

[BrianMDTX]

4 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Thankfully and I don’t understand why, but our humidity is minimal right now thankfully! It’s still sticky but not what it normally is when it’s 80-85. 

I thought I’d loathe it here. But it’s surprised me. I swear, I guess being between the Atlantic, the Bay and the Appalachians, it just sits on Maryland like a steam room. I thought being so close to the Gulf it’d be worse. It’s really not. 
 

I do miss the chill in the air in fall. I DON’T miss scraping ice and shoveling snow lol. 

[the reel ess]

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

It’s 95 here in Michigan and the water temps are pushing 90 on my lake. I fished a bit during mid day and then the wife and I spent 2 hours from 5 to 7 fishing. We both melted! The fishing was good but I don’t know how you guys do it! We have at least another week of this ridiculous heat. I tip my hat to you southern anglers! 

It gets rather hot and humid here in SC. I'll go early or late, preferably late because I can leave after work in summer and fish a few hours before dark without losing any time from work. Coincidentally, dawn and dusk are the best bite times in the heat of summer here as far as the daylight hours go.

 

I went yesterday morning and caught 12 by 10:30. It was a good day.

[Bird]

When you get up in age you welcome the heat, good for the joints. Lol

 

We're having a surprisingly hot early summer , consistent 90's here in VA but keeping my mouth shut.

[RoLo]

 

We lived in New Jersey, Georgia and Florida. 

It may fly in the face of convention, but Florida is considerably more pleasant than NJ or GA.

As Bird said, when you get up in years, you may complain about the cold, but you become heat-tolerant.

 

Roger

 

[Bluebasser86]

It's not the heat, it's the humidity that gets you. The humidity, combined with 90 degree temps we've been having makes it pretty rough some days.

[soflabasser]

Today it was 96 degrees Fahrenheit with +85 percent humidity where I was fishing. I made sure to drink plenty of water and fished mostly in the shade. I had a great time fishing and watching an alligator, several species of birds, and fireworks in front of me with the sunset.

[GreenPig]

96 in Mid Ga today. Worked on my boat in the shop for 6 hours and it was hot. 

[crypt]

you get used to it, stay hydrated,sunscreen,lot's of ice in the cooler and your good to go.if you feel the heat getting to you sit down fire up the motor and take a run to cool off. pace yourself also.

[gim]

I won’t even try to fish in this. I know the fishing can still be pretty good, but physically I just get so miserable out there.

 

If I need to get any outdoor work done, it’s before noon. My basement with the AC blasting is my refuge until this heat wave breaks.

[WRB]

The 4th of July was my father inlaws birthday and we always made the trip to Minnisota then drove up to Lake of the Woods. Coming from the west coast we don't have a heat index (temperature + humidity) to deal with. 90 degrees with 90% humidity is hotter then a 100 degrees back home. Canada felt cooler at 90 degrees because the humidity was around 60%. 

The southeast has both high temps + high humidity with oppressive heat plus it doesn't cool off much at night. We have 95 degree days with 65 degree nights, 10-15% humidity, actually comfortable.

Tom

[SeaCrow]

We've  had an unusually wet summer and it has helped with the temperature some. Winter is the wet season here and summer is the hot and dry time.  So far it has rained every day for the last week. 

 

[12poundbass]

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[813basstard]

Hell I don’t know..when you make up your mind your go fishing, your going fishing. 
 

It has been hotter than a homeless man writing a check tho...

[greentrout]

live in the deep south ... humidity has been at 85 percent and will go higher as the summer goes on ...

 

i'm an old man so i no longer push the envelope and stay in the heat for long ... fish early in the morning ... sometimes at sunrise ... fish a few hours ... most of the time the bass are feeding ...

 

sometimes not ...

 

good fishing ...

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, 12poundbass said:

Wrong thread, oops. 

[RoLo]

49 minutes ago, 813basstard said:

Hell I don’t know..when you make up your mind your go fishing, your going fishing. 

 

EXACTLY!

 

A few years ago (age 75), my wife & I were on our favorite Floridian bass lake.

The weather was spectacular (more spectacular than the fishing), a hot, bright sunny day with deep-blue skies.

I felt like a wimp, when I asked my wife if she wanted to fish in the shoreline shade for a while.

A half-hour under the cypress trees was enough, then we headed straight back into the blazing sun.

It wasn't until we got home that day, when we learned that afternoon temperatures were 99 degrees!

 

Roger

[NYWayfarer]

My friend lives in Orlando Florida. We often schedule what we call “Fishing together but apart days” basically fishing at the same time but in different states. We take pics and send them to each other.

 

He often has to leave early because of the oppressive heat and humidity. Today was one of those days. 
 

The high here today was 88 degrees and the humidity of the last few days was gone. It was nice here.

[frogflogger]

61 at night 90 daytime here in the hills.

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[the reel ess]

It's all relative to what you're used to. If you get out in it now and stay hydrated it will seem like nothing when the humidity or the temp declines.