Fishing Possible In This Heat!?

[TouchTooMuch]

So me and a buddy went out to a local pond, it is not fished much (for some reason, home to great bass, maybe everyone else doesnt know how to fish it right) but it is a good 20 acre pond. The heat here has been 100 + for the past three days so i figured all the big guys would be on the bottom of the pond. i started out with senkos and fished them wacky style on the bottom for a good hour and nothing. So I switched to a spro aruku crank bait and walked it along the bottom for a while and still nothing. Then switched to the strike king red eye shad and fished it a little bit above the bottom and still no bites. For my last resort I put on a jig and fished it right on the bottom trying to make it look like a crawfish, but to no avail. So what is going on? we went out at about 7 in the evening so they should have been biting, grant it we guessed they wouldnt be activly feeding so we fished every lure slow but it didnt help. are they just not going to bite wth this heat?

[Catt]

Wait for the sun to set; I know in southeast Texas & southwest Louisiana it 30° cooler at night

[clayton86]

Just cuz its hot doesn't mean there on the bottom we caught a handfull yesterday in 40ft of water cranking down to 6ft they were even hitting buzz baits durring the afternoon hours with the sun high.

[ChrisAW]

Temps have been pretty high here just north of you guys as well. I've been fishing a small lake that a friend of mine lives on, and the waters are well up into the 80's but the bass are still very active. We were getting bit on swim jigs, top water, and shallow cranks all day yesterday.

Conditions may tell you they should be in one place, but fishing the moment might tell you something different.

[Fish Chris]

I'm not sure what kind of humidity you have in IN, but I'm guessing it's high ?

Just one thing I have to mention about heat in different parts of the country....

A couple days before my trip to Louisiana, we were having "what we would call" a heat wave. I spent about 9 hours out on my boat, from say 9am-6pm, in direct sun, in just a tank top, with no hat. It got up to, and stayed right at about 100 degrees, for several of those hours. Didn't even phase me. But here is the key word > humdity < !!! It was only about 15%.

So, a couple days later, I stepped off of a plane in Shreveport LA, and it was also about 100 degrees > but with close to 90% humidity ! Dudes ! It was like get blasted by a giant blow dryer ! So no ! I could not have fished in that type of heat, for more than an hour, and even that wouldn't be fun !

Anyway, as some have mentioned.... you can always night fish..... but personally speaking, I hate night fishing. I'm always tired, and lost, and most importantly, it's never productive for me.

Fish

[ww2farmer]

It was in the high 90's with high humidity here on friday, and had been since Wed., I caught them in 6" of water, in 25' fow, and all depths in between. It bothers us more than them. If there is food/cover/oxygen they can and will be shallow and deep at the same time in the same lake in the summer.

[Packard]

I caught 7 bass in an hour in 90 degree weather in the afternoon yesterday. They were in 3-6 ft. water.

[Andy C]

It is horrible to fish in, but I am loving this hot weather. Bass are schooling on shad all day long, even though water temp is 90 in the mornings and 95 by the afternoon. Numbers wise, this morning was one of the best days I have had in years. I found schools of 12-17 inch largemouth bass and white bass on deep water structure and slayed them on scroungers fluke combos. By 9am they were busting shad on the surface, I caught them two at a time on double fluke rigs. My thumbs are worn raw.

In my experience, larger lakes fish better in the heat of summer.

[L a r r y]

Come on down to Texas, where we have had 28 straight days of 100+ degree weather and the temps do not fall much when the sun goes down. But let me tell you, the fishing has been pretty darn good. I've gone out with a buddy the last two weekends getting on the water about 5:30am, and fish to about 11. Last weekend, we boated ahbout 18 fish, all over 4 pounds. We started out fishing topwater and that was awesome. Then when the sun came up that bite stopped, so then we switched to medium cranks and that was great. When the sun got high, we switched to carolina rigs (first for me) and the bite was still good. So, don't let the heat get to you, you have to think what the fish are doing and where they are going and what they are doing. We went out yesterday morning, and boated about 30 fish between us. Now this is on a 27 acre pond/lake, but with smaller waters, I would suspect things would be the same.