Got out on the water at 7:30am, outside temp 59F, water temp 71F, I noticed the water was still very warm, most likely from the 7th straight beautiful 78F day in a row. Started in 9 feet of water over a very large weed flat thinking I could entice some aggressive fish to hit a fluke and within 20 minutes they were on it like they haven't eaten in a week.

1st fish was a decent 2lb Smallie, I kept fishing along this flat, 20 minutes later I see a huge swirl behind my fluke, a split second later another brown fish rolls over and inhales the bait, a solid 3lb Smallie. Next cast I had the fluke about 10 feet away from the boat on the retrieve and this pig devours the lure, ends up being a beautiful 4lb Smallie. Only 1 Largemouth caught today on the fluke, roughly 2.5bs, they were not feeding as aggressively as the Smallmouth it seemed, they might have been hiding in cover away from the intense sun.

All fish were caught between 7:30 - 10:30am, as soon as the sun got higher in the sky everything totally shut down, you could see the fish but they were just roaming not interested in eating. I slowed down a tad and threw a wacky worm and 1/8oz tube for about an hour and a half but that didn't work. Ended up off the water at 12:30pm after 2 hours of nothingness and being baked by the sun without wind.

Brian Moore