crappie fishing blue mountain lake hot weather

any tricks to catching crappie in hot weaether in pettite jean river where it meets blue mountain lake i use jigs

It is a sister lake to Nimrod sorta speak. Here Crappie tend to suspend in hot weather. I always thoght they were chasing Shad. The biologist claim I was told they are feeding on Plankton type stuff , filtering it out of the water.:confused:
The spiderriggers/ trollers do better in the heat of summer. The fish seem to relate less to structure. I have caught them in midday heat out on the flats at the bottom of brushpiles in the past. Guess they liked the shade . Most of the time we concintrate on Catfish. Usually late Sept when weather breaks start looking in shallow brushpiles just like early spring.

Thank you nimrod I still catch good crappie early morning on structure but soon as sun comes out the crappie start acting fishy.