Need some help here.

[TriStateBassin106]

For the past week my state of NJ has been under a heat wave and has seen temperatures in the mid to low 90s with some days being more humid than others, with that said the water temps at my local fisheries have been higher than summertime usual to the point where the lake water feels like hot bath water. 

 

Anyway I've been struggling to catch more than one fish per outing, the only tactic that has shown promise has been burning moving baits to the point where it annoys the fish, but on the other hand NO slow moving baits have worked at all. I've tried everything including fishing shade. Fishing later in the day/early morning and downsizing all my presentations and fishing really slow, deadsticking it even. They won't even touch senkos! Before the heatwave all my summer tactics would work and get me pretty good results. 

 

What are some tips/advice you guys could give me to get more bites right now? 

 

Do heatwaves like this turn the fishing off? 

[spaghetti_bassin]

I’m in the same boat. I’ve had some decent days out walking a pop-r along weedlines and working it in weed pockets. 

 

To translate those shorter strikes into landed fish, I changed the stock hooks to some super sticky mustads. 

 

I picked up some soft toads to burn over the mats, I’m anticipating some success with that. 

[BassNJake]

I'm fishing isolated shade spots on the sunny side and having pretty good success.

If I fish the shaded side I make 50-100 casts before getting bit.

If I fish the isolated shade spots on the sunny side my ratio of casts to bites is much better.

It also allows me to hit very specific targets, where as on the shade side everything is a target.

 

I have not had the depth finder on in 3 weeks or so but last time I did water temp was 86 in the morning.

With my shallow water fishing I have no need for the electronics

Judging by some of the tourney results here(Norris), I'm doing just fine fishing 5 feet or less while everyone else is running deep drops and ledges.

 

On a recent outing to Lake Chickamauga we did pretty good running the same shallow shade pattern

Of course one of the guys we know that lives down there pulled a 7 and an 8 off a deep bend in the channel

But our 5 best beat his 5 best and that included his 2 hawgs

[TriStateBassin106]

18 minutes ago, BassNJake said:

I'm fishing isolated shade spots on the sunny side and having pretty good success.

If I fish the shaded side I make 50-100 casts before getting bit.

If I fish the isolated shade spots on the sunny side my ratio of casts to bites is much better.

It also allows me to hit very specific targets, where as on the shade side everything is a target.

 

I have not had the depth finder on in 3 weeks or so but last time I did water temp was 86 in the morning.

With my shallow water fishing I have no need for the electronics

Judging by some of the tourney results here(Norris), I'm doing just fine fishing 5 feet or less while everyone else is running deep drops and ledges.

 

On a recent outing to Lake Chickamauga we did pretty good running the same shallow shade pattern

Of course one of the guys we know that lives down there pulled a 7 and an 8 off a deep bend in the channel

But our 5 best beat his 5 best and that included his 2 hawgs

What are you throwing in the shade spots? 

[BassNJake]

I make a pass fishing a toad primarily because I love topwater, I also like that its weedless so I can skip it under the overhangs. Then I'll swing back though flipping a senko(reverse rig) to the same targets. 

 

I'm also looking for baitfish in the area- without the baitfish this pattern is dead