Knowing it was going to get extremely hot Friday and hoping to get through fishing before noon, Mickey and I went to Lake X and started fishing at 5:35, first cast. A whopper Plopper was the bait last time we fished there so that is what we started with. Lake was slick, just perfect, but there was no interest. We graduated down the bait chain, Crazy shads, worms, Carolinas, red eye shads and finally Mickey had one on with a red eye shad but the bait had ticked a brush pile , which probably prompted the strike. The fish dove back into the brush, got hung up and pulled off. Then we fished for hours without even a bite mostly with worms and Carolinas. Those fish usually will at least bite, they may be up in a tree top and hang you up, but they will bite. Finally, around 10 we caught a 3 3/4 that bit a worm with the electrifying tap, just like they are supposed to. There was hope that things were going to change but the did not. The best thing about the day was the nice breeze that kept us from heatstroke. We know that lake is full of fish. Sometimes they just don’t bite.

EDIT: It turns out it was a bad day all over. Hal went to a beaver pond where he usually catches 25+ and caught 2 or 3. A man told me about how he was feeding his catfish and they wouldn’t even eat. All on Friday.