Well, the river has been in there recently, with the high water from the hurricane leftovers. So sections close to the river were pretty muddy. Up higher, the shallow wetlands were very clear. But I did not see many really large fish in them. I bet there were some, and you could wade them if there are, but other than bowfin I couldn't say for sure that there were many fish you'd want to shoot in the higher (all of Ted Shanks is on the bottom, so none of it is very high) wetlands. You could see clouds of gizzard shad, likeenormous slow amoebas, under the water. Also schools of goldfish, but they were pretty small for shooting. I think there would be some big fish, but not sure. We got all our bigger fish in Horseshoe Lake, which is labeled on the Conservation area map. I think you'd get some big fish in threemile ditch, too. Parts of these were muddy when we were there, and other parts greenish, but probably acceptable clarity. You'd do better to wait until the mud from the river drops out.