What danny k said....

I've been fishing that those stretches of the river for years and have noticed that the algae problem has been getting progressively worse. Both nitrates and phosphorous are needed for plant growth but it's the nitrates that will increase the excessive growth that were noticing which I suspect is from insufficient septic systems and fertilizers, manure, pet waste,etc. Maybe caused by runoffs from all the high waters and rain we've encountered but I've never seen it this bad so early on in the season. Yesterday in TMA I was snagging clumps of this crap on a size 12 beadhead, fishing was good but a real pita cleaning off the nymph every 2-3rd cast. You really have to watch your footing as well, at one point I had to run back up to the truck and get my slip-on cleats. Seemed to be a Spirogyra type and not the Didymo.