Quote Originally Posted by captainjoe View Post
I found something interesting. We started out at 62 fow. It was 75.6 on the top. I put the downrigger down to 55 ft & the temp. Was 74.2. We trolled west from Pt. Abino to 68 ft. & put thd downrigger down to 64 ft. The temp there was 66 deg. I hit numerous cold spots intermittently.. Wanted to get out Sun. but you know how hard it is to get two nice days in a row on lake Erie
It's almost hard to believe, 76 on top, and 74 degrees 55 feet down. I never would have imagined that. My guess is that is what happens when zebra mussels clear out the water like they have over the recent years?

Here is another interesting one:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/buf/laketemps/laketemps.php

Lake erie temperature, today it's 76, and that reading is taken from 30 foot depth.

So when you hit cold spots, did you register more fish on the finder?