Thread: Anybody Fishing

Originally Posted by D-Ray

I havent been anywhere lately, Too dang hot, and I've been buisy here at home. Might break loose Sat. or Sun. and go to Greers. Wayne, is Hill Creek Marina still scattered? I havent had a chance to go up there and see it yet.

I have not been by there in a couple of weeks but they had started cleaning it up.

Originally Posted by Turtlebait

I've been braving the heat,not getting to the lakes until 8:30 to 9:00 fishing until 2:30 to 3:00.I'm trying to learn more on how to catch more fish in swallow lakes in the heat of the day.Been doing ok with 15 to 25 fish each trip all but thursday with only ten fish.The longer this heat wave lasts the harder it is to catch in swallow water.Not interested in filling a cooler just learning how to with jigs and spinners.Some days it takes a beetle spin type spinner with 1/16 jig head with a 4 inch curly tail slow rolled.Other days you haveta dig though your tackle box and wish you where sitting under the AC,lol.
Not wanting to hijack your post but can you guess what type fish this is?caught it thursday on a 1/32 pony head with 2in. blue/white curly tail,8/1 HI-VIS yellow braid.After the battle and releasing it I had to find a shade tree to get under to cool off.I sent this picture to my fishing partner and told him it was a bass,so for I've gotten by with it lol.

It's not a bass.:D

I am currently staying at a campground on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs. Here to visit my daughters but will wet a line early in the morning. Too dang hot to do much fishing after about 10 a.m. The lake is just a few yards away so will try some bank fishing in the morning.

That was pretty good rieve you know your fish.

Well, I guess I'm a topwater for sure. A couple of friends, one of my sons and I were going bream fishing on Mellwood or some of the White River Refuge lakes this weekend during the full moon thinking we might get into some beds, but we have mutually thrown in the towell. It's just too hot. I don't mind getting hot while I'm fishing, but not in this. Those fish are sure lucky.

I agree its hot,a wet towel around the neck can get you a few more hours of fishing time.Caught 56 total saturaday,bass,bream and crappie from 9:30 to 6:30,the best bite came in the heat of the day.The other fisherman were not doing to good,I think its b/c they still fishing like they do in the spring time.In this heat if the bite is slow my go to lure is a arkie jig spinner #3,1/16 round jig head with 3in. curly tail.Thowed back several bream and bass,all the crappie were good keepers.
Just a reminder,from spawn the bait fish have grown up,sometimes a bigger lure is the key.In the heat they aren't chasing small stuff to get a belly full its to much work,however with a long pole with a small bait dropped down in their face they'll suck it in.All the fish were hot to the touch,didn't take lone for them to melt 30# of ice..
Saturady when I got to hot in one lake I'd load the boat and drive to another lake,fished 3 different lakes that day.The drive to the lakes was enough time to cool down under the ac to fish another 2 or 3 hours.

been catching a lot of good bream and a few crappie when i pass a tree top and drop a jig in but the last trip two days ago the bream had lost a lot of weight. never saw them lose that fast. i threw back several bigger than my hand because they were too thin already. the hot weather is taking a toll on them too.


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