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Old 06-05-2025, 12:40 PM
Broad Bill Broad Bill is offline
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Has anyone noticed a decline in the clarity and coloration of the water. Might have to do with all the rain we've had recently but the water looks very murky with a greenish brown tint in the areas I've been fishing. Very difficult seeing your lure 6 inches under the water. I've spoken to other anglers fishing who have had pretty much the same story, fishing for this time of year is way off. I'm sure there's spots and times when it's on fire but overall it seems to me like the walleye / hybrid vampire night bite during the herring spawn has taken a bit of a nosedive. I hope this isn't the residual impact in some way of the debacle in 2019 when Weldon Quarry was dumping waste water with Crystalline Silica (basically microscopic chards of sharp class generated from cutting marble) into the lake for months before the EPA / DEP and Weldon learned of and or did anything about it.

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