Despite temps in the triple digits and heat indexs of 110+ I managed to talk a friend into going fishing last Tuesday. We get there really early and I catch a dink off the ramp on my second cast on a buzzbait. Thinking it's going to be a good day I keep chunking the buzzbait. 30 minutes and no bites later we're both fishing brush hogs trying to find a bite. My buddy catches a small flathead on his brush hog and then gets smacked on the backside of a marina walkway has to haul this fish over the walkway. His first one of the day went 4 on the button.

I caught a couple small ones and then I caught my first good one of the day, 4lbs 3oz on a baby brush hog out from under a dock and we start to notice the big fish seem to be under docks.

So we're running around fishing docks and catching a small one now and then when we pull into a different marina. It was getting real hot and we were both wanting to grab a snack so I start to troll over to the marina dock just when my shakeyhead gets thumped. Set into a solid fish that jumps and dives straight down and goes under a cable S@#T! Amazingly my 8lb test holds and I coax her back out and into my hand. My biggest of the day goes 4lbs 7oz.

Things just stopped after that. We fished about 3 more hours with 3 bass, 1 drum, and a tiny flathead to show for it. All and all I can't really complain about the results considering the conditions and the fact that the water was 92 degrees in most areas of the lake!

nice man you got into some good fish even in the heat! Way to figure it out!

Way to go fellas, those are some real fine Chunks,

Especially from your northerly latitude

Roger

in the heat, i get burned lol. good job fellas

Thanks guys! I'll be floating a smallmouth river in the Ozarks this weekend to try to beat the heat a little bit, hopefully there will be lots of pics to follow!