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Don't guess..... Treat it like any other session and try to find the carp. If you can't find them, I'd start on the end of the wind but be ready to move on any sighting. Imo deep water is not the one in high temps but hey.... I've seen them show up in the oddest of places at the oddest times of year! 20C+ is bad for oxygen but good for digestion/feeding.... but digestion uses lots of oxygen (lol). Swings and roundabouts mate. All you can do is find them and fish for them.

I've got a 48 hour session booked for this weekend that I paid for last year and not particularly looking forward to it. Luckily that lake that I'm going to has quite good night form and early mornings also are pretty good but then not expecting anything until the following evening. On my park lake a few days ago, I was catching a few in very shallow water. I didn't actually plumb it but the time lag between opening the hopper on the boat and the lead smacking down was minimal, I reckon it was probably on about 2 foot but it was under the far bank trees. The lake is a dammed stream and I've been catching at the top end when the effect of the oxygenated water flowing in is at it's greatest.

Hello Everyone . I hate this hot weather , but if I did try and go fishing , hiding in a shady spot would it be worth all the effort ? . The water temperature readings I have been getting are in the 20's C . So I'm guessing go for deep , but how deep ? , water ; aerated , and try to avoid the bright sun ? . What are people doing please ? . 😃

Made me chuckle😅

I went Saturday 6pm to Monday morning 9am and yes it's too hot for me so made sure I started in a swim with shade and some breeze, problem was I saw fish opposite in a swim with less breeze and much less shade but had to move. It's a long day waiting for dawn bite times and too hot to snooze in the daytime but I did have 2 takes around 8am before leaving so worth the effort. I'm not going this weekend too hot but the weekend after I will do at least Saturday night to Sunday morning as the weather is cooling off. If you're on a lake worth surface fishing then you could catch all day as long as you're confortable. I have bought myself the Korda sun protection shirt (long sleeved/high neck) which means I dont have to worry about sun cream and some super lightweight combats/shorts from Fortis which were both ideal, oh and a sun hat ESP, drink lots of water. Up at Trentview a few years back we sat in the water on our chairs most of the day to keep cool, which was lovely. As an ex-ginger the heat isn't my thing at all and it does put me off.

Many happy returns @kevtaylor Great that you caught one after a move too

Back on the Park Lake yesterday and managed 10 with 2 x 14, 2 x 15 and a 19-0 Common. The lake was very coloured with an algae stain and struggled for a bite for a few hours but sending the boat out to both areas with plenty of bait soon had the spots rocking. I got though several kilo's of bait but it really is a case of buying your fish. Other people using singles or PVA bags were only picking up the odd fish.