Ben Bragg wrote:
Look for current breaks. Slack water, current seams. Eddies and deep holes rocks ...
Anything that acts as a deflection of fast water.
They ( all fish ) will Use these slack areas as ambush points.
Don’t know what you are fishing for but some sort of jig is effective fishing these spots.
Also any spillway , low head dam Or mouth of tributaries is a hood spot
Some power plants use lake water to cool their generating operations and have enough warm water flow back to the lake keeping it from freezing. Since it's just cold water in and warm water out it doesn't hurt the water and fish love it in the winter. See if you have one of those near.