The Heat of the Summer
It has been scorcher hot out there for the last few weeks. Temps have been getting into the triple digits. Early morning and late evenings are the only way to go. During the mid-day convection oven I prefer to make like a lizard and hide in the shade. Fishing for Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass has been very slow. The surface temps of Lake Powell are bathtub like and the fish are very hard to find. We have been having limited success with the Largemouth in the backs of shallow, brushy coves. We have been throwing spinner baits and top water plugs (Zara Pupps to be exact) around submerged Tamirisk trees. The action has been slow but the few bites we have gotten have produced some quality green fish. On the Smallmouth front we have been catching good numbers of really dinky fish. The 1/2 pound smallies are running in schools of up to 20 fish and boiling off of the slick rock points. You could catch them all day but catching fifty 1/4 to 1/2 pound fish is like kissing your sister. I haven't seen a quality Bronzeback boated in three weeks.
The Striped Bass boils have been very hot and cold. And I mean hot and cold. When it's on we have been chasing large, aggressive boils for hours and knocking them dead. The for some unexplainable reason the next day we go without seeing one boil. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to pattern it. As a guide, it makes me very anxious before leaving on a trip because I am at the mercy of nature. All in all we have been getting a good boil bite 7 out of every ten trips.
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