Lake Clinton is a premier 4,900-acre cooling lake located in DeWitt County in east-central Illinois. Created in the 1970s to provide cooling water for the Clinton Power Station, this V-shaped impoundment offers 130 miles of wooded shoreline with gently rolling to steep banks and numerous coves. With an average depth of 15 feet and a maximum depth of 40 feet near the dam, Lake Clinton provides diverse fishing opportunities year-round. The lake's construction incorporated intelligent fish habitat design—trees were left standing in future cove areas, bridges and roadways were reduced to rubble and left in the basin, gravel pits and farm ponds were integrated, and rip-rap was strategically placed along bridge causeways and the dam, creating abundant structure for fish.