Mary Malmros wrote in
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John Fereira writes:
(William R. Watt) wrote in
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but I'm strictly a solo paddler on the lakes and rivers of
Ontario where waves and cold water are not unkown.
The lake that I am describing is only about an hour and half south of
Lake Ontario.
Heh...you'll appreciate this, John, since you're from my same
latitude and only a short ways west. Every summer, me and my buds
head _north_ to Ontario for the warm-water paddling on the Ottawa
River. The section we paddle is controlled by a top-release dam,
and it's considerably warmer than the Deerfield, which is
bottom-release. It feels like bath-water to us!
A friend of mine from Ithaca goes up there quite often as well. Have you
met a guy named Matt Stevens?
Moral to that story, latitude is just _one_ factor influencing water
temperature...and often, not the most important one.
There's a similar scenario not far from here. I've gone flyfishing a bunch
of times on a couple of rivers in the Catskills. Both the east and west
branch of the Delaware river are tailwater rivers (fed from the bottom of a
dam). The west branch is fed from Cannonsville reserveroir all summer but
the feed into the east branch from Pepacton reservoir is reduced
significantly. As a result, the water temperature goes up and many of the
fish in the east branch move into the west branch.