I’m getting cabin fever in August. What do you do when the heat soars? What are tactics that work for you?
i find shade. for both you and the fish.
where i am, the fish congregate in the shady stuff and go even farther into the mucky cover.
and, go out early and late in the day, also for you and the fish.
My “tactic” is a super sized raspberry iced tea, a shady tree and a good book. When I’m not comfortable fishing, I figure the fish need a break as well. Since I own my own business, I also put myself on reduced hours, and I don’t work when it hits 90 and above (sometimes I lower that based on % of humidity like we had last week). These few weeks are the only time I miss our pool.
That’s my life and I love it.
Joe
August in South Carolina leaves a lot to be desired in terms of fishing, especially a dry August like this one. The lakes around here are down five feet and the fish are deep. When I can drag myself out of the air conditioned, I try to fish in the early morning and toward dusk. I was out paddling with my wife and found myself in the middle of schooling hybrids (without my fly rod) a couple of days ago right around dusk, so there is some hope if you bring your tackle. Try early and late fishing. 8T 
Well, so much for solunar tables 
i use them, when i can find them on the internet.
they work well.
Like everyone else, early, late, shade, different retrieve speeds and actions. I lucked out the other day and had the ‘right’ fly on…a crude bluegill pattern, size 8 and I got about a bunch of smallies. It was 90+ during the heat of the day and once that had set in pretty good, the bass turned off. I could have stayed and fished deeper, slower, but I’d had my fun and besides, I was melting and those cold and relaxing drinks back at the house were calling me around 5 or 6pm.
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Ok fishing in the evening is out and getting up early on the weekends with a 2 1/2 year old in the house is not a great idea either because, well I’m 45 and tired. But I love to fish so I was at the local lake this morning at 7:00 :lol:
I started out with my normal gurgle-pop and dropper and for the first hour all that the bluegills would do is come by and hit the gp without taking it in. This was especially frustrating becuase some of the fish were BIG!
Changing to a chartruse gp from yellow and tying on a soft hackle creation of mine made all of the difference. I started picking up small bluegills and minnow size LMB. About 9:30 I decided that I was pushing my luck and made one final cast. This was a short cast about 15’ and about 5’ off of the shore. I swear it was just like the seen in the movie Jaws only it was a LMB with a mouth big enough to accept my rather large fist! Now I have been looking forward to hooking up with a big fish on the new 6’6" 2wt with a 5x leader and 4 pound tippet; the little rod handled Mr Bucket Mouth no sweat. Having a good reel with an awsome drag helped to say the least. The fish didn’t make especialy long runs but he did head into a concrete culvert pipe and a rock pile but in the end he rolled over on his side and came hand :lol:
Needless to say getting up early won’t so much of a problem next weekend.
Greg
NICE!
how do you like your little 2 weight?
I love my little 2wt and it’s my standard rod for bluegills. What surprised me was the backbone it has when fighting larger fish. I don’t know if I’d want to tangle with a much larger fish on it though because I might kill the fish playing it.
I change species. Less trout fishing, more Bass fishing. Some saltwater fishing as well.
When I fish for trout I only fish in places that have temps below 70 degrees.
jed
Greg, I’m heading down to MO this month sometime to see my elderly parents and will certainly be fishing the ponds and maybe the finger lakes near Columbia. Early morning works well for me, but so does night fishing. I plan on doing both. JGW