Additionally you're bringing up cool water and exposing it to the warm air temps. At least that's what I think, but I don't know for sure as I can't get out and measure the pond temp profile. There is no pier in this pond and bringing up the boat is a real pain.

So far temps in up to three feet of water (as far as I can get the temp sensor out) are not above 65 F even in very hot weather. Trout feed vigorously morning and evening which is a good sign. They are also brook trout which are more sensitive to marginal water temps, and I've only seen one mort in several weeks. That one floated up and had been dead for a while, and was probably one that fought hard and got off a week or less before. I normally don't fish for them until harvest, but I had an elderly gentlemen over that had won a fish and a mount of it through a raffle ticket for a fund raiser. His brook trout was 3 lbs. 5 1/2 ounces and 18 5/8 inches long on a measuring board.

Hope things work out for you RennyK as this hot weather worries me too.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.