During the dog days of summer, bass fishing can be a challenge as we all know. It would be interesting if we would exchange information concerning which lures and techniques we each use during this period.

I'll start the ball rolling: I fish on a deep, clear-water lake most of the time (Lake Travis). I fish with a little of everything throughout the year, but a plastic worm is my confidence bait. I use a worm almost exclusively during the summer, but I also keep a small twister-tail grub on one spinning rod at all times. I alternate between worming techniques, including the Texas rig, drop shot (D/S) rig, Carolina rig, and split shot rig. I don't enjoy the D/S rig with its dangling tag end, but sometimes in the summer the only way I can catch fish is by using a D/S around deep boat docks. Please share with us what you do during the hot summer days.

Come on guys....share a few secrets.

not that i have "secrets", but yes on the dog days of summer your best bet is deep, around the thermocline. all my fish have come from soft plastics fished relatively slow. but you gotta find humps, ledges, other structure...

Short c-rig fishin a big worm

I fish mostly at night or mornings in the summertime. Nights I mostly throw a Midnight Special or black chatterbait On bluff banks or the first 1/2 of creeks. Mornings I start on shallow points close to deep water or creeks with a chugbug Move out to tops of humps or try to fish shaddows with worms when the sun comes up. We don't have hydrilla so that is not an option. I do ocassionly go to Stillhouse and I do fish hydrilla there.

1.5 oz tungstun. 80# braid. double wide beaver. Nastiest looking matted anything you can find that is relativly colse to the main lake.

I guess my favorite is topwater frogs; but my most productive is between a dropshot and a tx rigged craw.

I like fishing a weightless sinko or a small swim bait slowly across the bottom. Just fast enought it off the bottom.

Big 'ol DD22's fished parallel to drop-offs. I don't really like fishing them, but they catch fish for me this time of year. Chartreuse with a blue back seem to work best for me.

I basically use 3 setups this time of year:

T-rig soft plastics, spinnerbaits, deep diving crankbaits.

same as Jay- and also dropshot. I will also have a small crankbait rod on the deck. those are my 3 main techniques I use in the summer.

For Kelly Jordon: flutter spoons, deep diving cranks and swimbaits.

that chunk of tungstun has got to cost $20

i hate you guys for making me start to use tungstun :P

Texas rigs, drop shot/shakey head, and jigging spoons if I am out during the day, and Texas rigs and shakey heads and jigs at night. And I have been catching fish in the same areas at night, in deep water. The night fishing for me has been identical to daytime except it is dark and scary, and not as hot.

As a bank fisherman I do two thing topwater first light or at sunset. The other is go vacation in colorado and start bass fishing again in the fall