How To Grade Water Clarity

[ifsteve]

As a retired engineer, I try and avoid adjectives/superlatives/descriptors. They don't mean as much as plain old facts.

Water clarity - give me inches or feet that you can see your bait.
Fishing report - how many bites, how big.

When somebody says the water was fairly clean and we had an ok day.....I really have no clue how that translates to my way of thinking. If they say we had two feet of visibility and the three of us hooked X number of fish in four hours then I understand that.