sorry if this is a rehash, and i'm not sure there is a omnipotent lure for a bluebird fishing trip , but just curious what you guys pull out on a bright, cloudless day. besides spinnerbaits and shakeyheads. BTW i'm river fishing. any other advice besides lure choice on bluebird days?

You got me,I ain't having much luck either. I almost welcome this cold front that came in last night...I do a lot of river fishing as well.

Been a very unproductive year this year for me.Seems like every time i try to find a pattern it changes by next year.

You got me,I ain't having much luck either. I almost welcome this cold front that came in last night...I do a lot of river fishing as well.

Been a very unproductive year this year for me.Seems like every time i try to find a pattern it changes by next year.

no doubt. i do fine bank fishing neighborhood lakes, but river fishing from the boat is a tough titty for sure. you'd think that the cold front would bring them into the shallows after all this heat but it's all about the shad and where they wanna be.

i'm not feeling to great about my trip tomorrow and monday. been looking forward to the time off, but it doesn't  look like it's gonna pay off

This has been without a doubt, the strangest year for fishing. It's been much tougher to get solid fish this year at many lakes, compared to years past.

To answer your question, I go with bottom baits, and work em very slow, I get lucky every now and then.. ;D

The drop shot has been my most productive bait this year.  On blue bird sky days my best approach has been to fish the shady side of whatever structure/cover is present in the immediate area.  More specifically, I want my bait in the light, within 6" to 12" of where ever the shade line is.  I try to be mindful of where the shade line is 6 to 12 feet down, at the base of whatever cover I'm fishing.  The angle of the sun is something to consider as is how the light might refract at different depths.

On my home lake we pray for bluebird skies and 15mph wind most of the year. We grab a Super Spook and have a blast catching topwater fish. This is because Clarks Hill is a Blueback Herring lake and the herring seem to go shallow when the sun is high and bright. This turns the bass on.

Now on any other lake I'm grabbing a jighead worm or a jig, dipping it in JJ's Magic, and going searching for any shaded water I can find and working it hard. I'm looking for a reaction bite on a fast falling lure.

On a bright cloudless day I'm pitching a jig 'n Lobster around heavy cover such as laydowns, brushpiles, docks, and anything else that provides shade.

I've had some good success this year throwing frogs over matted up vegetation.

jig

Bandit 100 in blue with chartreuse back

White spinnerbait

White Chatterbait

Fish under docks, trees and any other cover you can find.

Fish any wood you see.

Fish dropoffs or other places that have cooler water and oxygen and is out of the sun.

Sorry, I had it backwards.

Make that a Bandit 100 Chartreuse with a Blue Back.

Sorry. Wife was calling me and I hurried the post. 

Grab a jig and get super shallow on anything that provides shade. By shallow I mean 2' or less.

this weekend was awful. thought the cool weather this weekend ( low was 58!) would pull them into the shallows, but the shad weren't anywhere to be found. had a few snap at my ribbit in the shade, but wouldn't follow up on a baby brush hog. i think they were fasting. caught ONE that looked malnourished, on a swim jig. only fish of the weekend, and it was a lucky one

Jig or soft plastic depending on structure and cover.

8-)

Depends on the lake I'm fishing that day but:

Spro frog around matted grass

7" culprit worm in tomato flipped to timber

custom jig in green sunfish pattern flipped to grass or wood

Small jigs, tubes (el grande tubes because they have a tough nose and I like to nose hook them when times are tough) and my new favorite Wincos custom baits Creek Wacky Worm.

Tru-Tungsten Ike's Spike jighead and 3X worm.

or

Gamakatsu Wacky Jig and any small finesse worm

Target any deep, green weeds, typically the outside edges. Don't forget the Megastrike.

sorry if this is a rehash, and i'm not sure there is a omnipotent lure for a bluebird fishing trip , but just curious what you guys pull out on a bright, cloudless day. besides spinnerbaits and shakeyheads. BTW i'm river fishing. any other advice besides lure choice on bluebird days?

I know you said "besides spinerbaits", but I fell into the bluebird sky and hot water rut while bank fishing this year as well, but a white spinnerbait with a white willow leaf blade burned as fast as you can burn it near structure and weedlines saved a few would be fishless days for me.

For me it's a jig or a soft plastic.  Lately though the bite has totally turned off down here.  I'm counting my days until some of the cooler weather comes back.  It's been almost too hot to fish lately.

Don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, but what if you throw 20-30 mph winds into it? Do you go way back into coves where it's calm, or what? I have this problem all of the time.

I have fished with 1 to 1 1/2 foot waves on the water..fish will be deeper, and not affected by the wind.

Deep cranks, or jigs, ect for the bottom.

Dropshot and shakiehead jigs in the shadows with a heavy douse of JJ'S Magic. Works almost everytime.   

Grab a jig and get super shallow on anything that provides shade. By shallow I mean 2' or less.

That's what I do, too.  I also spend some time skipping under docks and overhanging brush with Senkos and tubes.