working hard for fish

Hi Folks, Guided with boat yesterday with spin gear.  We were fishing for bass and pike.  Another hot day with a good stiff wind from the west.  Unfortunately the wind prevented us from fishing certain parts of the lake effectively.  The surface temperature was 77 degrees.  Pretty darn warm.  We had a pretty good top water bite off the get go casting a fire tiger popper and frog pattern Heddon tiny torpedo.  We had smallmouth bass and largemouth bass eat the surface presentations.  The fish appeared to be moving back and forth from a deep drop off to a shallow boulder strewn shoreline.  Nice weed beds on the drop off.  After messing and landing a few largemouth and smallmouth bass we moved to a deep drop off looking for northern pike.  We cast a 1oz. weed less dardevile spoon and a #3 red and white Mepps spinner.  Landed 1 pike on the spinner and had another fish follow right up to the boat.  We switched to a large clown nose Husky Jerk and landed another pike and prompted a few more follows to the boat but not a take.  We covered a lot of water yesterday and made lots of cast to tug on the fish we caught.  We cast some soft plastics with mixed results.  A large white Zenko and Sluggo drew the interest of some largemouth bass.  We watched one largemouth make a bow wake from some lilly pads to eat the Sluggo.  Pretty cool.  Still lots of casting and the fish did not seem overly aggressive.  I can only figure the heat and a small weather front had the fish in a state of flux.  Small stream fishing this afternoon.  Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home.  Have Fun, Willy