Fishing Report July 24 2016

This has been one of the hottest and driest summers that I can remember in a long time. At the same time, it is having an effect on our lakes and ponds as the water levels are low, water temperatures are high and many areas of weeds, choking out large areas of the lake. We have a number of lakes that are only accessible with a small boat and this gives some pressure on the fish but with the harder access, cuts back on some of the pressure that the accessible lakes get. Plan was to fish plastics in the weed beds but we could see that there wasn't much of a shallow water bite. Moving out to the edge of the weeds, and if there was a fairly quick drop off into deeper water, this seemed to be where the fish were hanging. Hot summer days are moving the fish to deeper water so that they are more comfortable and most of the ones we caught were relating to the 10-12 foot range. We were fishing jig worm combinations with the Northland Nature Jig and either the Impulse 4 ring worm or the Impulse 6 night crawler. The Nature Jig is an environmentally friendly jig that is required in a majority of the New England states. One other item that helped us locate these fish in certain locations was using the Sonar Phone TBox SP200. This utilizes your smartphone while giving you a very colorful crisp and accurate depth sounder with a built in temperature gauge. Also, working with the Navionics Boating app, we are able to live map the lake as we are fishing for instance lake map knowledge and for future use. As you can see in the image, we went across a very small hump and there were a number of fish relating to that.