Mid-day fishing (blue bird sky)

Alright I was wondering what you have found to work the best in the mid-day Bluebird bright sky’s and heat?
I would love to be out all day but have to admit my confidence gets shaken in the mid day 12-4pm. What structure and what methods do you find to be the most successful? I have hit my share of docks but on the river they are limited.
Any thoughts
Thanks

I would tie on a frog and go slop fishing. Second choice is flipping and pitching wood with good current on it.

the slop is a good bet for these conditions especially mid summer, for smb and walleye, i like to focus on the same areas they bite in in low light, but with different approaches, deeper and slower, if you are on a good shallow low light bite, the fish are usually really not that far away especially in summer, deeper areas on wing dams also, and current.

OK,
Now I know this sounds a little silly but try dragging a carolina rig in the deeper water behind a wingdam. If you don’t get bit move with the same presentation to a confluence and let me know how you fair.
jc

I wouldn’t call it a “go to” technique from my own experience but hearing Jeremy suggest it makes me wonder if my experience was more than “dumb luck”! I have had this happen, going with something deeper that has quick access to the shallow areas. I was using live bait in all cases but the fish have certainly been there.

All ya can do is try it………………

I have had success dragging C-Rigs on the backsides of sand dropoffs and points too mid day. Don’t think I ever really tried wingdams, and I really don’t know why. Let me know too how it works!! One of those slinky sinkers might stay snagged less.

One other thing is, try something totally off the wall. Last summer I caught some LM in a wide open bay at midday when it was 100 degrees out in July, sun beating down, no real cover to speak of, and no wind. Why were they there? Who knows, maybe there was a spring in the bed of the bay, maybe there was alot of Crawfish out there, maybe they just wanted to be there. I found them due to a loop in my line I was trying to cast out.

I tried to interrogate a couple, but they would only speak fish!!

don’t you hate it when they speak in native tounges?