I went out this morning and I did manage to get a few. the weather was about 75 this morning at 6 and by 11 30 it was around 87. partly cloudy then clearing later. we had a good thunder storm last night. I was fishing lake minnetonka here in MN. I was fishing docks most of the time, thats where I caught the few i did catch. there are ALOT of weeds around the docks mostly milfoil and cabbage. i threw senko's most of the time and i tried a few different cranks on the edge of the weeds. i didn't have much time so i kind of stuck to one area. I am going again tomorrow so what should I try. are the weeds too thick for a t rig, mabye i should try scum frogs around the docks, or should i try deeper.

thanks.

Try top-water early and as long as you can find shady cover, ie, buzzbait, poppers, spooks, floating frogs, ect, ect.

Kelley

Your air temp is 87 degrees in Minnesota?  Wow,

I would check the water temp.  It's probably warmer than you think.

I would fish deeper than usual.  A crank bait for searching, then a jig or worm once I had a pattern going.

yoyo a rattle trap in a craw color if you cant get the topwater bite going.

Early morning topwater around those docks.  As the sun climbs, they'll move back underneath those docks.  Learn to skip, my man, learn to skip

we fished saturday in nearly identical conditions...76 in the morning and got to 91 by about 11 AM. we were fishing Koontz Lake in northeast Indiana.

We had just about the same luck and found fish in pretty similar local. We fished all over the lake but had our best luck in a channel on one end of the lake. It was the only channel that had structure like docks and weed cover close to ( 10 yards) deeper water ( 5-7 feet). The rest of the lake was too shallow near structure ( 2-4 feet). If there was not deeper water nearby...we could not seem to find fish. The water had to be 5 foot plus for us to catch fish.

so I would look for structure in "striking distance" of deeper water.

I had good luck yesterday with a senko...even in the weeds. I was dragging it across the top when it was too thick to sink...and letting it drop into pockets in the weeds...letting it fall, givin it a twitch, then pull it back up across the top to the next pocket. I caught two this way...not lurkers by any means ( 15 inches)...and one hit while coming on top of the weeds, the other down inside a pocket.

hope you tear em up today.

well i went out this morning and tried scum frogs in the slop around docks and skipping senkos up under the docks. a few strikes bu not much. then i noticed a bunch of bait fish surfacing in about 12 feet of water. so i went over and threw a few cranks, dt 4, baby ones and a couple other fairly shallow cranks. should i have used deeper runners? i figured whatever had those bait fish going like that probably wasn't deep. i did catch two small dinks like that. then as the sun came up i started fishing docks again with a t rig which did catch a few more. highlight of the day was a 21" large mouth on a t rig. i ended up catching about 10 1-2 pounders in about 4 1/2 hours.

oh yeah water temp was 74 most every where i fished.