Hot water bassin!

[bluebasser86]

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.

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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.

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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.

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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!