Dirty Water Raritan Bay

[Detour66]

The water in the bay in the Port Monmouth area is rust colored. I have never seen it like this before. I had someone tell me its a algae bloom but it doesn't look like any algae bloom i have ever seen before. if anyone has seen this and has an answer please share it. Thanks

[Duffman]

Saw the same over the weekend. Seen brown water/algae countless times but never like that. Almost like a rust film on the surface with some black streaks that looked like crude oil. Prop wash was deep rust color.
Sunday afternoon was bad but after a couple tide changes Monday morning was a different animal. Noticeably cleaner but the brown grass on the bottom was thick.

[Capt Derek Fisher Price 3]

Read that it was an algae bloom called a "mahogany tide"

[Skolmann]

Water quality much improved east of Chapel Hill.

[Fishin Polski]

Sphincter Plankton!

[Detour66]

Read that it was an algae bloom called a "mahogany tide" I always thought algae blooms were caused by lots of rain and warmer weather which isn't the case. The temps have been cool and we have had rain but nothing major. So what is actually causing of this? Any ideas?

[MDeSi]

Same deal in the Navesink , little better last few days. Never seen this before.

[O'Man]

We've had a wet spring and lots of nutrients have flowed into the bay to feed the algae. The bay gets clearer when we have dry spells.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Found this https://www.cbf.org/blogs/save-the-bay/2018/05/this-month-on-the-bay-mahogany-tide.html

We've had this issue before but never as bad as I've seen recently... Maybe has something to do with the mild winter we had??

[Rocky]

I put my boat in at the AH on Tuesday and I was glad I waxed the bottom of my boat the day before. That water was nasty. I felt sorry for the fish in the bay, but the fish out front didn't seem to mind at all.

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[132parker]

Yesterday, N/E Great Kills water guality much better. Caught fish to 35" in brown water two miles E. of Keyport.

[Detour66]

Yesterday, N/E Great Kills water guality much better. Caught fish to 35" in brown water two miles E. of Keyport. Did you catch bass or Fluke? I know the bass fishing is good but the Fluke fishing has been affected by the dirty water.

[132parker]

Found marks that wanted live bunker, yes even in brown water !!:confused: