Which lure should I be fishing with this time of the year?  Its hot here where I'm from (Mississippi).  I'm mostly fishing for bass.

What sort of lake are you fishing? From boat or shore?

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This might help:

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1158577137

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Lot of factors come in to play. Depends on what kind of cover you have in your lake. Is it primarily rocky areas, rip rap, fallen timber, etc.

In summer most of the bigger bass are found deep (subjective depending on the type of lake, reservoir, pond, etc) and a good way to work them during the day is to use a finesse worm on a jig head (larger size worm for bigger fish unless they are very pressured on that particular lake). 7" - 10" is normally a good size to start with if targeting larger bass.

Some bass live shallow year round, it's just part of their nature. You can fish for these fish using topwater poppers/plugs early in the am, frogs, spooks, etc. Later in the day fish on the shady side of the banks and use jigs and or worms and depending on how aggressive fish are spinners around timber, lay downs, etc.

These are typically good summer patterns. If you have a lot of grass on your lake work that with the same baits during the day. There should be an article on the main bass resource site about summer bass fishing. Give it a look, it's bound to help you out.

Bait ideas:

-Zoom Finesse Worm

-Zoom Trick Worm

-Senkos and or swimming senkos

-Boo Yah Baby Boo jigs with Yum Chunk Trailers or Uncle Josh Pork Trailers

-*** Stick Baits

Weigh down worms texas style with tungsten weights or carolina rig them.

Lizards can produce well on carolina rigs as well.