It's funny how waters change day to day. Today was different than yesterday. Besides it not being 90 degrees out the water itself was a different color. In fact it was way off color.
I'm not sure what's going on up river and with the various dams and reservoirs but for the river to keep having these bumps. and changes in turbidity, without rain events, leaves me a bit puzzled. Yesterday the turbidity was about 6, today it went to 28. Those were numbers I saw when the river was at 40,000 cfs. Today it's at 15,000 cfs.
I talked about temps and DO yesterday and today, with the off colorness going on the oxygen saturation percentage dropped significantly, from 115% to 90, and the DO dropped from 7.7 to 7.4 mg/ml.
Delaware Joe and I gave it a quick go at 5 am before we went to breakfast. Joe had three, I landed one, a nice just 28 inch fish that saw through the dirt to find my fly. While it really doesn't mater my goal now is to squeak out a July Delaware river bass, of course, it decent conditions as to not harm the fish anymore then catching and releasing does.
And in more sad Delaware River news it seems the river has claimed another life. Crews up in Lambertville are continuing their search for a 23 year old male who went missing while
swimming. This river is just unforgiving and each year we see multiple fatalities. Waters deserves all the respect and caution we can give them.