jpsdad (and others),
Was there ever a point during the fall at the power supply lake that a great proportion of the blue TP congregated around the warm water outlets?
If so, were they easier to catch during some portion of that time frame?
(Presumably if the rest of the lake was too cold for TP and they were heavily congregated in one area, then forage would be scarce and they would be hungry. Or do TP generally quit biting when they get close to the cold end of their temperature tolerance range?)
Fishing Rod, to be sure, to survive the winter these TP have to seek that warmer water and find it. ... or perish. But I fished in October and the water across from the plant felt warm as bath water. We even saw a 4 ft long alligator. James still talks about it. He had a great time but we never keyed in (though not for lack of trying).
With regard to the cold months concentrating TP in wrm water ... the only chink would be if it was just as attractive to BG. I think maybe the key would be finding concentrations of TP where the BG are less prevalent.
Swingle mentioned that Moz TP are more susceptible to angling and they allowed fishing in some treatments. Over 500 lbs/acre were harvested by hook and line. There were no BG in those treatments IIRC.
