Whats your tackle for 95 degree heat and up?

[Dixon]

Fishing a lake with very few docks.   The docks do hold fish but other then that what are you using.  Water will be fairly clear.  

[Steven Ladner]

Usually when it's hot, I head for deeper water. But since your fishing docks, I would go with a jig/pig combo.

[Dixon]

How deep of water are you talking?  There isnt alot of docks on this lake.  If you find a dock you gotta to fish it pretty good. You mainly saying go deep and throw cranks.

[Steven Ladner]

Deep around here is 15'-25'. I like finding deep structure and working it with a crankbait or jig.

[Dixon]

Yeah thats what we wanted to last weekend but there was a huge bass tournament and boats everywhere.  Really sucks going to one of your holes and having boats already there.

[bassman31783]

If your having a hard time finding fish I would fan cast a Carolina Rig.  I've always done good with Carolina Rigs in the heat.  

[Dixon]

Fan Cast?

[bassman31783]

Fan Cast?

It's when you start @ 9 o clock (far left) & work your way to 3 o clock (far right) hitting every # in between.  

It's a good, quick way to locate fish in the heat.  You get to cover a lot of water quickly & thoroughly.

Make sense  :-/ ;D

[bassman31783]

Maybe this is a little easier to understand.

Fan Cast - Making a series of casts only a few degrees apart to cover a half circle (more or less).

The first attempt to explain was my definition. The one above is the bass resource definition. I think they did a better job. ;D

[The Outdoorsman]

fish the main lake points with a c-rig, deep running crankbait, football head jig.  If you have a topo of the lake, find the spots where docks are very close to deeper water and fish those up under the dock and out away from the dock.  

[SPEEDBEAD.]

95 degrees?

I would sit in the shade and drink beer until it got dark.  Then I would start fishing your normal places and techniques on the lake.

As a side note, I do not condone getting drunk and then night fishing.  Everything is good, in moderation.

[grimlin]

A weedless G-man jig rigged with a Berkley Sabertail.

This combo has always did well in the heat of the summer for me.

[roadwarrior]

Structure in deep water: jigs, soft plastics, DD22 and 3/4 oz Ledgebuster

8-)

[Blue Streak]

A swimming pool and a cooler of Bud lite. 8-)

[aarogb]

    Carolina rig, jig, crankbait, and spoons.

    Throw these near cover and structure and you should get bit at least once.

[iceintheveins]

Carolina jigs, heavier jigs, hula grubs on heavy jigheads, heavy spinnerbaits, deep cranks, lipless cranks.

But when it's 95 plus I usually arrive before sun up and leave at noon, unless I'm fishing an evening bite. Fishing is way better then anyway.

[CWB]

Don't let the temperature scare you away from shallow docks.

Try skipping a senko or tube under the docks or boats around them.

Had some of my best days doing this. You can tell pretty quick if this pattern will hold up. Run a dozen docks and if you don't get a hit, follow everyone else out to deep water. If it's on, you'll usually have this all to yourself, unless I'm on the lake with you. Remember-temperature does have some effect on where bass will set up but if they are under a dock or boat in the shade, they are fine. Plenty of big bass caught down south in very warm water from shallow areas.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Structure in deep water: jigs, soft plastics, DD22 and 3/4 oz Ledgebuster

8-)

Yup,  c-rig also

[dday07]

like some say here,fish in morning and esp. at night also topwater and have a blast!

[DINK WHISPERER]

Carolina rig with some fluoro and a watermelon seed colored lure.

[Steven Ladner]

If none if this works, I would start night fishing  

[crw]

95 Degree + heat depend on where you are at the time.  In Southwest Georgia (Fri 102, Sat 103, Sun 101, Mon 101) temperature is a relative term.  I fish in the Flint River which has surface  water Temps up to 88-92.  On or near shoals, shallow swift water ,the temp drops for 88-92 to 79-83.  In deeper water 6 to 20 feet, the temp may be 70-78.   My sons and I have found that we do not change baits, just depths.   Try the shallows in the AM and PM, then deeper water.  Same baits, plastics, spinners, crankbaits, topwater.   As with all other fishing, once you find them, the fun begins.   When we fish together, we all use different lures.  Once we find what the bass want, then, to each his own.

[cart7t]

T shirt, shorts, flip flops and a cold beverage inside an air conditioned house with the TV on.  That's pretty much everything I need when it's that hot out.  

[Quitlimpin]

Carolina rig with some fluoro and a watermelon seed colored lure.

I'm gonna go with Dinkmaster once again.  I'll toss a c-rig out and just kinda drift fish over humps, channels, etc.  C-rig is my #1 summertime producer.

[The_Natural]

While I agree on fishing deeper when it gets hot, I'm still going to fish the skinny water from first light until 9am or so.   Just fish hard alternating a topwater, fat shallow crank, and a pitching bait of some sort.  You'll find feeding bass in shallow water before the sun gets high.