Hot as in temperature.  Both air and water.  Launched at Hopyard went up river caught a few on the incoming tide.  River temp was over 80 degrees.  Worked our way downriver catching a few on creek drains on the outgoing tide.  Air temperature got up over 90 and we were roasting.  Last week got slapped down pretty good.  This last trip got us some good green fish and a couple of brown fish.  No Snakeheads or other species.  Got chased off the water by an approaching thunderstorm.  Homie don’t do lightening on the water. ??

Thanks for the report.  I put my kayak in there Sat and Sun.  I went out at Little Falls Sat and pulled exactly one bass out of that hot chocolate.   It was over 18", so it sort of made up for lack of bites.  I went to Hopyard yesterday hoping for a little cleaner water.  Viz was slightly better, but bite was similar.  I did get two catfish on jigs, flipping laydowns.  Hit like bass on the fall.  I was pretty upset when they rolled....right before the slime became visible.   No dragons, but I did get one of those freight train hits....can't believe it didn't hook itself 

BTW, ever been in that marshy area up from Hopyard maybe 1/2 mile on the right?  Maybe I missed the channel...I only found about 20 inches of water leading in close to high tide.  I didn't want to get trapped, so  I turned around and didn't go in far.  Wondering whether there's a gold mine back in there

7 hours ago, Choporoz said:

Thanks for the report.  I put my kayak in there Sat and Sun.  I went out at Little Falls Sat and pulled exactly one bass out of that hot chocolate.   It was over 18", so it sort of made up for lack of bites.  I went to Hopyard yesterday hoping for a little cleaner water.  Viz was slightly better, but bite was similar.  I did get two catfish on jigs, flipping laydowns.  Hit like bass on the fall.  I was pretty upset when they rolled....right before the slime became visible.   No dragons, but I did get one of those freight train hits....cand believe it didn't hoot itself 

BTW, ever been in that marshy area up from Hopyard maybe 1/2 mile on the right?  Maybe I missed the channel...I only found about 20 inches of water leading in close to high tide.  I didn't want to get trapped, so  I turned around and didn't go in far.  Wondering whether there's a gold mine back in there

We went out of Little Falls the week before and went upriver hoping to find cleaner water.  It was a very tough day. I caught 2 dinks.  Last week was out of Hopyard and we went up river in the morning and way downriver in the afternoon.  Past the 301 bridge by a few miles.  There’s a couple of creeks we fish upriver from Hopyard but remember we are in a 20 foot Ranger and navigating the backwaters is not very possible.  That being said, we have been up a creek on the right during high tide that has a lake like feature to the left and a secondary creek on the right.  We’ve caught fish in there but almost all of our fishing is done from the main river.  We put together a good incoming tide pattern a little farther upriver where the tide hit a flat with a couple of feeder creeks.  Drifted Ned rigs with the tide along the channel and they bit it good.