Today was the first day I have been able to get out after a week of record temps in the Chicago area. We have been averaging temps in the upper 90's with a temp of 100 one day and heat indexes pushing over 105. Since I fish from the bank me and my brother decided to go to one of the suburban retention ponds where the fishing is normally really good for him and ok at times for me. Our plan was to get there at 5:30am right at sunrise and be off the lake by the time the heat hit at 9am. Well mother nature changed our plans by giving us some much needed rain til 5am and then flooding some of the expressways. Well we ended up getting to the lake at around 7am but the temps stayed in the mid 70's with overcast skys while we were out the entire day. My first 3 fish were dinks and when unhooking them I noticed how warm they felt and got them on a crankbait. After no hits on the crank for awhile I switch to a 10" worm with no luck moving down the bank and even tried a topwater since fish were popping up all over with no luck. The retention pond has 5-6 overflow outlets and decided the moving water would be cooler since the pond level was higher. That did the trick as I caught my next 15 fish with the biggest being just under 2 lbs all near the rushing water of the outlets and all on the same sexy shad crankbait. We left the retention pond to hit a small man made park lake and after a couple of cast near shore along shaded and weeded areas I again moved to the overflow pipes thinking again the moving water would be cooler. I caught 4 all in the same overflow area running the crank across the opening. The biggest is 3.5 lbs with the other fish being a little smaller. Soon as I would catch one another fish would fill the spot and they would swallow the crank. It felt good to get some fish on the line again.

Congrats on the good outing, I had a good day also, and the temps here in Texas has been over 100 degrees for the past month, so I know what you've been going through

Congrats on the good outing, I had a good day also, and the temps here in Texas has been over 100 degrees for the past month, so I know what you've been going through

Thanks Larry and yeah you do know what we've been going through and just too hot to be bank beating it in those temps. Congrats on your success as well.

Congrats on the good trip, and hopefully this heat spell will break soon.

Much needed rain is an understatement. I was too busy working in the heat all week that yesterday I did absolutely nothing. Was hoping to launch at Diversey this AM to get on some smallies but storms again

Hey man way to figure out the pattern! Nice fish!

Good day of fishing WTG

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Thanks guys and yeah figuring out the pattern really turn it into a decent day out. Seems the heat broke as we got storms again this morning also which turned todays trip into a one hour outing with no success. Good luck to all you guys when u get out as well.

Congrats on a great day!

Thanks Mccliff and one of the better days I've had in awhile.

WTG!! Congrat's.