Never paid that much attention, but the dirt is eventually going to come off in any areas other than where gravity will tend to keep it there. When I dive, everything is covered with a thin layer of either sediment or algae, depending on where the surface is. I have to be especially careful in a pond or one wrong move or kick and everything is silted out and can't see anything.

Hard enough to see anything to begin with (water has to be very clear to be worth even trying). If I am trying to view BG nests or attract fish with feed, I often will just crawl up the bank on the bottom very slowly so as to not induce a current for the silt to flow past me. Then I just set there and wait.

Will hardly ever see a fish if I am swimming around. Sit motionless and wait. The fish will come to you or if they are on a nest approach as close to where you think they will stay on the bed and they will return shortly.

A relatively clear pond or lake is a different story. In Cape Cod in a glacial pond was able to approach PS on the nest and well as LMB guarding newly hatched fry. Very slowly and cautiously in an un-threatening manner and could get within a few feet or in one case with a PS that had eggs in the nest and a tree limb next to the nest, got my faceplate within a couple feet to observe the eggs.

My pond normally has too much of an algae bloom to see anything. But last year it cleared up for a couple weeks to about 3' vis, which was doable.

Last edited by snrub; 01/17/16 08:20 PM.
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