Quote Originally Posted by LarryG View Post
I fished a lake in Ill. that was a cooling lake for a electrical generating plant, warm water? In the summer this lake was as warm as medium bath water, and it did have walleyes in it.Maybe the temp. is something a fish can adapt to, as long as the O2 supply is there and is the live sustaining temp fish need.This lake also had small mouth and LMB, and muskys. It was a trophy fishing lake one game fish limit. Size limits were almost ridiculous, but it was aleays fished heavily.
More than likely the warm water was at the surface and the Musky and Walleye were living in the winter stored water below the warm water. The warm water will actually act as an insulator for the cold water on some lakes especially deep clear lakes similar to Cumberland.