Dog Days Of Summer - Your Favorite Tactic For Bass ? 2024
ChrisD46 reply :
With hot weather day after day now moving into more heat in August - what is your favorite Dog Days of Summer tactic for bass ?
Jar11591 reply :
Fishing long after dark is quickly becoming my favorite summertime tactic.
tcbass reply :
I fish shallow 99% of my time. Ragetail Toads between docks and Senko's under docks traditionally. This year done well with a KVD Sexy Dawg topwater. Actually had 2 muskies go after it last outing and lost a 40" muskie on a Ragetail Toad at the boat where he bit.
Gonna try more swim jigs (Seiberts), spinnerbaits (Terminator), buzzbaits (Cavitrons and Booyah) and crankbaits (Rapala Scatter Rap shallows).
ChrisD46 reply :
Traditionally in the SE we rely on shakeyheads with either a strait tail roboworm or zoom finesse worms bottom hopping on a ledge .
Docks or shady laydowns are good bets as well to throw a shakeyhead during the hot days later in summer .
Jrob78 reply :
Ideally, use your electronics to find humps, ledges, points, roadbeds, etc in deep water. Some of them should have bass stacked on them or around them. Use jigs, deep diving crankbaits, c-rigs, spoons, etc to catch them. This works better in theory than in practice sometimes though.
Catt reply :
Deep water structure by the light of the moon 
frogflogger reply :
All good advice or you could throw a frog or big topwater all day and hope for one strike.
tcbass reply :
On 7/29/2014 at 6:40 AM, frogflogger said:All good advice or you could throw a frog or big topwater all day and hope for one strike.
I've always had great luck with frogs (Ragetail Toads) all season and this year got a KVD Sexy Dawg and have been very successful so far.
RipzLipz reply :
In your area and if fishing a lake, I'd be fishing evening and night first, keeping in mind what's already been mentioned above with techniques and location. If that time isn't possible, then I'd choose early morning. However, if you have the electronics and can find the fish, nothing should stop you from fishing deep offshore structure during the day, as Jrob pointed out.
The places I fish, there isn't as much traditional reservoir structure available, so I seek odd structure or deeper breaks, weedbeds or fallen timber in or near deep water by day, and then seek shallower areas near these daytime holding areas for those fish that move in shallow to feed in the evening and later into the night.
Soft plastics, jigs (including the pegged weight with skirted soft plastic rigs), and deeper running cranks or maybe slow rolled spinnerbaits by day and during the night I prefer most any top water, jig, soft plastic or slow rolled spinnerbait in the shallower areas or first break.
nascar2428 reply :
I'm still waiting for Summer!!
Brian6428 reply :
10" worm and 1/2 oz jig.
adam lancia reply :
Slowing right down has worked for me this year so far, with smallmouths at least. We don't have any largemouths in Nova Scotia. Going to a darker colour than what I fished in the morning has helped as well. A week and a half ago we got to the lake around 6:30 and fish were breaking the surface all over the place. The three of us were throwing everything from wacky and Texas rigged 5" Senkos, Flukes to chugs to a Heddon Torpedo and every lure caught fish for the next 3 hours. Once the bite slowed, a 4" wacky rigged Senko was the ticket. I also changed from pumpkin to black/blue laminate and really slowed how much I worked. Drop shot might have worked well too. My father in law, who has never fished bass before, was breaking the Senkos up into inch long chunks and putting them on a wacky hook and catching fish right up until we called it a day at 2pm. They were by no means big but he wasn't lacking any bites. He was even having luck when he didn't notice the Senko chunk being up on the actual leader and not even on the hook anymore... I have no idea why that worked but it did...
Catch and Grease reply :
Topwaters, and anything I can fish around thicker cover lol
FishTank reply :
Medium running crankbaits seem to be hitting well right now but we have had cool weather here in Indiana.
RipzLipz reply :
On 7/29/2014 at 9:56 AM, FishTank said:Medium running crankbaits seem to be hitting well right now but we have had cool weather here in Indiana.
I'm not missing the humidity LOL
Bluebasser86 reply :
jigs, 10" worms, and bladed jigs, preferably after the sun has gone down 
Jigfishn10 reply :
I can't get out at night, my work day starts at 3:00 AM, so during the day I key on deep water structure and if I get into shallow water I look for shaded areas. If I do catch fish in shallow, I find that they are near a breakline to deeper water.
QUAKEnSHAKE reply :
Weedmat ,slop ,pads anything that gives shade and an ambush opportunity. Fish on top or go through to get bites. Ill throw a fat ika or wacky stick bait hop it on top create a disturbance, find a hole and let it drop down in get strikes both ways.
ww2farmer reply :
#1 Jigs and/or t-rigged creature baits in deep milfoil
#2 Same baits, under docks on sunny hot days when there is lots of shade under said docks
I will switch to a wacky rigged stick if the jigs or creatures haul water, or drop shot if the bite is really tuff.
fishballer06 reply :
Topwater. Early morning, late evening. Nothing beats the action.
roadwarrior reply :
Ledges, especially midday.
10" Thumper
Siebert Outdoors 3/8 oz Big O (PB&J)/ Rage Craw (PB&J)
BPS 3" Skinny Tube (#71)
iceintheveins reply :
Topwater and spinnerbaits in the morning, mojo rigged centipede in the day. Senkos and jigs are still always producing for me though too. The centipede is just my go to when it's HOT and the bite tough. They'll hit it when nothing else is working.
leandro_santos reply :
Here in Ontario, Canada where I live we haven't had too many hot days this summer, but I've noticed that bass are inactive during the day, starting to actively feed after 9.00 pm, so I am doing mostly night fishing. Fish have responded well to 1/2 oz spinnerbaits slow rolled, small lipless crank baits and 3 inch senkos t-rigged which was the bait I have caught most fish with, they apparently can't say no to a small offer. Will try fishing with 3/8 oz jigs and some medium diving crank baits.
JigMe reply :
Most of my summer bass strike comes from early morning 6-7am using bronze eye frog, after sun comes out then I will switch to a swim/flipping Jig with Rage Craw trailer. If I am pitching heavy cover, then I will stay with T-rig sweet beaver or worm. At my home lake, there are lots of lilly pads and drop a senko on the edge usually get a strike.
J BASS reply :
Cranks/jig
DTack reply :
Depending on the lake, a spook, or a frog.
VegasFishing reply :
Zoom finesse worm rage rigged, mid-day, has worked very well these past two days...
Mike L reply :
1) 10" worm, skinny dipper and spinnerbait through scattered grass
2) Punching a rage bug or sweet beaver
Mike
JThoms38 reply :
jigs around docks, especially under ladders!!!!
riverat reply :
For the past 30 years I mostly fish at night this time of year. I like to fish from the first quarter through the full moon to the last quarter of the moon phases.
Scott F reply :
Small rivers are consistently good all day long. Shallow water near current is what I do in summer.
Swampstud reply :
Granted the summers been cool this year in michigan, Texas rig an chatterbait for me. I typically get out at 8-9am an fish till 3 or so.
1099gl reply :
frogs in the pads and mats
Teal reply :
Dog days? What's that? Lol work is in full swing, haven't wet a hook since post spawn.
Typically I'm still pitching jigs and topwaters, just on deeper docks and locating deeper or cooler spots with cover
Kevin22 reply :
Crankbait. Keep moving until I find some active fish.
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