Your GO TO Warm Water Baits

[dougw82]

Summertime is really starting to heat up down here in SC and it lead me to wonder what everyones favorite warm water lures or soft plastics are.

I usually turn to a worm when the bite gets slow but during the summer there is usually a lot of gunk on the bottom.

What baits do you use when it starts to get warmer?

[neBassin]

Deep water docks with 10 in worms or half oz jigs.

[-ebby-]

i like slowing working a scum frog over thick weeds

[saint romain]

trick worm

[BassFishingMachine]

i like slowing working a scum frog over thick weeds

Yeah, thats definetly a technique that works well for me in the heat. The thick muck tends to hold alot of fish on those bright warm sunny days. Other then that I'll work jigs in drop offs, or in feeder creeks that have alot of shade. I find its not really a specific bait that works best this time of the year, but rather the search for shade. Where ever there is shade, may it be under thick muck, under tree tops, or right up against the side of rocks/concrete thats where I get most of my hits. So all in all I tend to find the fish in the shade...can't blame em, If I were a bass I'd be in the shade too with this heat  .

[Fishin247365]

10" worms, and full sized brush hogs fished painfully slow!

[roadwarrior]

Soft plastics and jigs.

Oh-oh!  I guess I would have said the same thing for cold water. The main difference is depth and light. I like deep structue, but in low light, topwater and shallow cranks sometimes work better in warm water.

8-)

[Siebert Outdoors]

Pretty much same lures just different location.

Majority

Jig

plastics

[hawgchaser]

I fish deeper and at night. Usually throw finesse worms, jigs, deep divers during thew day and 10" worms and black colorado spinnerbaits at night.

I can still catch fish shallow but they are all small spots. The better fish are deeper.

[MALTESE FALCON]

For me it's crankbaits.

Falcon

[Catt]

Same baits year round just different locations  

[.dsaavedra.]

trick sticks

worms

DT's

[Wayne P.]

A wacky rigged Zoom finesse worm or Trick worm after the surface water temps get above 45 degrees.

[Brian_Reeves]

1/4oz home made jig with rage tail craw (green pumpkin and watermelon chartruse skirt and summer craw trailer) around shallow cover/structure (Alt. color is solid black with green pumpkin rage craw)

3/4oz Oldhams football jig in watermelon/watermelon chartruse with summer craw rage tail craw trailer in deep water. (Alt Colors would be solid black skirt with green pumpkin or ocachobee craw rage tail craw)

3/4oz Cotton Cordell Jigging spoon with a bunch of junk done to trick it out.  silver on cloudy days, gold on sunny.  (I just spray paint my silver spoons to save the extra dollar lol)

Shallow Crankbaits

Lil Mr. Money Strike King Spinnerbait

Rage Tail Shad

Carolina Rigged Tubes, senkos, flukes, 7inch worms, 10 inch worms

That is all of my summertime fishing in a nutshell.  of course I try other stuff, but those are my babies

[Pigsticker]

Definitely soft plastic and jigs year round, your just changing spots

for the most part but....

I throw a zoom finesse and trickworm alot more in the summer than i do in the spring at least in the middle of the day, mainly because rigged weightless texas it is alot more weedless

and is a more bouyant to stay on top of the summer time bottom gunk that i hate >

[Jeff H]

Mainly jigs and worms for me on deep structures but weather patterns can change things up a bit.

[Jake.]

Topwaters in the morning and evening, soft plastics during the day.

[detroit1]

Cranks, especially deep, if i can get them going. When i can't - it's  dropshotting, spider jigs, worms, deep spinnerbaits,lipless,and then a few soft swimbaits. I LOVE summertime fishing, but then it rarely reaches 90 degrees where i live.