MAURY COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — For six years, Cheryl Miller has found peace fishing along the banks of Campbell Lake. But when she arrived before dawn Sunday, she discovered something that shattered her tranquil routine.

"The smell is really intense," Miller said. "The smell is intense."

For the first time since she started coming to the lake, Miller caught neither fish nor peace. As the sun rose, she watched speckles appear across the water's surface.

"And the more the sun came up, the more you saw speckling across the lake," Miller said.

What she initially thought might be trash or debris turned out to be something far worse, the very fish she had dreamed of catching were floating dead in the water.

"I didn't want to see the grass carp up close like this, I didn't want to see the catf

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