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Bass fishing in warm water, Where do you start to look for them and what do I use?

We have had a week of really hot wather, and the water tempature has went from 75 deg up to 86deg is about 4 day, what will the bass be doing???, what kind of fishing should I be doing?, and where are they going to be located?, ( the is no running water in to the lake, avg depth 15 ft.) Thanks for the help

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1. go deep and bottom bounce a senko worm along twitching it occasionally.Try going at low/no daylight hours.

2. Hot or cold remember that species is a predator and ambushes its meals from a hiding place most of the time. So try and find structure, depth changes, stumps, lilly pads etc fish as close to those as you can early or late in day (fish have no eyelids and avoid direct sunlight) vary your baits and lures but in all cases if you are not losing baits/lures to snags or rocks you are not bass fishing. They are 99% of the time in, under, around, structure or on the way to and from deeper water to those areas and in deeper water the same holds true.

3. Go shallow around matted grass, thick moss, lily pads, etc. and you'll catch bass. Toss a plastic frog or mouse (make sure its weedless) on the thick, matted stuff, let it sit for a couple seconds then twitch it.

When it's sitting on top, let it sit then twitch it in. If/when it comes to open pockets, let it sit again for a couple seconds, then twitch it in. Bass will litterally blow up through the vegetation to get it.