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    It's above or near 100 so much this summer it has been almost impossible to fish. It's almost 80* at sun rise and above 90 before noon. Not much wind, which is unusual for Kansas, but the main thing is, IT'S TOO DARN HOT!!!!

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    Here in SC it is hot but not quite that hot. Our problem has been muddy water most weekends from rain. I will never understand how our parents and grandparents survived without AC.

    I still fish in the heat but I stack the deck by fishing rivers where there are shoals that put 02 in the water. If I go to the local ponds, I just catch nothing but a heart break. Water is too hot and the poor fish are near suffication. I've never been to KS but I can imagine a river with shoals may be hard to come by.

    Maybe night fishing?

    Good luck!

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    Joe, I've noticed that the fish have all but completely shut off for me the last two weeks or so. I may try some night fishing for white bass along the dam at a reservoir here soon, but I think my fly fishing is done for awhile for the most part. July and August are just the pits....
    The Green Hornet strikes again!!!

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    It's been that way here in Georgia for the last 6-8 weeks as well; just too hot to bother fishing. I did get lucky the other day and we had a very nice thunderstorm in the early afternoon which cooled things down quite a bit and gave a nice shot of fresh water to the lake I live on. It started out slow for the first 45 minutes or so, but then at 6 PM exactly it was like somone rang a dinner bell and the fish started hitting like crazy. I was using my 3 wt "bream" outfit, but it was mainly bass that were hitting, some pretty nice ones. I also caught some very nice blue gills and one Pumpkinseed that was so big that it was ugly. I only measured the Pumpkinseed with my outstretched fingers but it was between 12-13 inches long and loaded with eggs. It was really great to spend an evening in my kayak out on the lake and catching fish was just a nice bonus.

    Jim Smith
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    In the really hot months, I restrict my fly fishing to very early or very late in the day. I switch to other tactics during the heat of the day. The fish are still there, and they will hit.

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    I know this is going to sound crazy, but I can fish this one farm pond every year during mid-day when the temperature is 100 degrees and catch bass right and left. It's amazing and the only fishery I have access to where I can do that. I wish I knew what made the pond different. It's not unusally deep or spring-fed but just seems to have active bass regardless of how hot it gets. For example, two weeks ago I fished it at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in 101 degree heat with a cloudless sky and caught twenty bass in the 10-13" range. Most of them were on a popper with a prince nymph dropper and twice I landed two bass on a single retrieve at the same time. I also caught several other bass a little deeper using a 1/64oz. jig head woolly bugger. I waded the pond in a swim suit which made fishing bearable but I wish I could duplicate that kind of success in other places during mid-summer. That same pond will consistently produce bigger bass in the 2, 3 & 4 pound range during the spring and fall. Can someone tell me what makes this pond click in the heat of summer? If I knew I'd write a book and be famous!

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    I went to Fish Cove at Cheney this morning about 07:30. It was very muddy, but i tried anyway. Grounded the skeg on my yak and had to push for several yards with my hands in a mud bank. I guess it was a bit skinny. No fish either. Some guys showed showed up with a throw net and got some little shad, but that was it. Then it got windy and I went home.

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    I feel your pain guy's. Here in south Texas drought and very high temp's has kept me from fishing for week's except on a few occasion's. Most people on the board talk about waiting out the winter to get out but I seem to always be waiting out the summer.

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    I went fishing Saturday evening, knew it would be challenging when first rowing my kayak across the pond, I could feel the heat coming off the water. I caught plenty of gills and crappie but no bass. I fished until 9:15pm and did'nt notice the normal bass activity I would see just after Dusk.

    wayneb

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