Too hot - but still have fish story

Too hot to worry about doing much fishing but I still have a fish story. Today just before noon - I was looking at the lake (as always) - and I noticed a lot of fish jumping close to shore / near bank end of my fishing pier. So I decided to go see if it was a bunch of bream playing - and I could get some bait.

Well I fished for a short time (very short time - was another 100F day) - Anyway the little girl from down the street walked up - then she said she saw a really big fish - and when I looked up - she was right - it was a VERY big fish - looked like a catfish in about 1 ft. of water - so I knew what was scaring the small fish to make them jump - too bad I didn't have a catfish hook and bream for bait.

Anyway I know a big fish was working the shallow water and that is what made the fish jump - btw: the fish was too big / too long to be bass - besides it looked brown when it turned and slowly swam away

I went out to eat tonight with my best friends but I still got a few bait fish but not enough to bait the trotline