Talking about clean water in the MI, here are a few videos to show you what it should always look like. Search Manasquan Inlet Diving and there are more video from a few years ago. Some of these are from only a few months ago. The drift dive videos show lots of bait (what look like sandeels) as well as sand dabs and a blackfish or two.
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