Daily fishing verdict · 2026-07-02
Muddy, warm, and oxygen-starved — fish elsewhere if you can.
With the 24h DO topping out at just 3.8 mg/L, there's no real recovery window for smallmouth today — that's genuinely stressed water all day long. Add 77.9°F temps, rising turbidity, and a muddier trend, and the river is stacking up every wrong condition at once. I'd wait and see if tomorrow's sunny forecast helps, but honestly I wouldn't bet on quick improvement.
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