In fact, I am unashamedly a hot weather person. As several of my colleagues at work start talking with enthusiasm about ski trips in the winter my thoughts drift toward a desire to head to the equator. My teenage years were spent learning how to fish in the heat of the day and in the summer months, after all the cooler weather seemed to necessitate the coming of hunting season. Even now, I find that the summer offers the most reproducible and reliable fishing if you use certain strategies.
Many folks consider summer a period for night fishing only.
They certainly get away from the heat and, in some lakes, the ski and jet ski crowd. If you are going to get out on the lake in the mid-day and afternoon sunshine, you must take precautions. The problem with this next part of the sermon is that many of us ignore its content when we were young and are now paying the price. I recently tried to share some of these gems with a young friend of mine who guides on Lake Fork. My suggestions for precautions were as well received as if I had beaten him with an AC plug.