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They are finally coming up with a system that is killing off the toxic algae. It isn't cheap but the new equipment appears to be helping.


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Good Ol Lake SmellSomeMore
Lake front property on the back-side is cheap for so-cal. My wife's aunt has a 2-3 acre property with a boat ramp. There are big lots but you'll just have some ghetto ass neighbors behind you or across the street who are not lake-front.
Maybe it's the time to swoop somethin up.
 

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The large pumps in the middle of the lake are aerators. I wonder if they are even needed now. They obviously didn't do much to help the lake.
 

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I’m 62 years old and I remember going there when I was 10 years old and i never been in a lake before and I thought it was nasty and disgusting. We went back about 5 years later and it was the same. They need to drain the Lake and be done with it
 

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The large pumps in the middle of the lake are aerators. I wonder if they are even needed now. They obviously didn't do much to help the lake.
From what I gathered from that video is the aerators produced too large of bubbles to point that they didn't do much of anything to add oxygen to the water. Apparently these nano bubblers produce such small bubbles that the air is absorbed into the water before it can makes its way to the surface and lose and benefit to the lake water.

Now, have all the septic systems around the lake been removed yet? I know that used to be a problem in years past.
 

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I think they are taking a victory lap a bit early. Lets see how this works after a couple dry winters.
 

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I fished the east shore on Nov 7 for a couple hours.
The water was pretty clear for Elsinore.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Lots of Mexicans fishing for cat I’d assume, and they were keeping them😳

Spent some time experimenting with a few lures, there was a lot of top water action out there.
The black rooster tail with a small spoon was the 3rd lure tried and produced a bite on the 4th cast.
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Small guys but fun. Got 4 in about 45 minutes.
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What ever they are doing to the water, it’s helping vs what I saw a year or so ago.
I notice the boats coming back from water testing don’t have nearly the scum line they used to also.
 

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I have a buddy who lives on the water over on the Ortega side. He has the dubious honor of knowing when the lake is really full his house will be the first one to go underwater. But if this thing works I think his property values just went up.
 

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The same lady who owns links of Summerly owns this property. Apparently she’s the sake queen or something like that produces a large amount of the stuff.
I thought i had heard that in the past.
Speaking of links. Last time i played summerly it was super dry and hard. But it was a good price with a friend that lives there.
 

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Drain the lake and dig deeper .
That lake is so shallow almost like a pond.
I wonder what will be found if that were to take place. Its like 46' deep in one area only and the average depth is in the mid 20's. Middle of summer the water temp can get in the high 80's. My father and I ran our Flat on that lake many times. It was easy since he lived in Temecula and that where we kept the boat.
 

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Any natural lake, that never freezes over in the winter, is going to have issues. 😉

It needs to drain, to keep it in balance.
 

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I fished the east shore on Nov 7 for a couple hours.
The water was pretty clear for Elsinore.
I was pleasantly surprised.
Lots of Mexicans fishing for cat I’d assume, and they were keeping them😳

Spent some time experimenting with a few lures, there was a lot of top water action out there.
The black rooster tail with a small spoon was the 3rd lure tried and produced a bite on the 4th cast.
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Small guys but fun. Got 4 in about 45 minutes.
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What ever they are doing to the water, it’s helping vs what I saw a year or so ago.
I notice the boats coming back from water testing don’t have nearly the scum line they used to also.



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Any natural lake, that never freezes over in the winter, is going to have issues. 😉

It needs to drain, to keep it in balance.
Water levels have fluctuated there since records have been kept going back to Spanish explorers and early Spanish ranchos.

 

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I was thinking maybe making a section uphill of the lake into a man made natural wetland. With a winding stream bed, and reeds, plants and such. Like a delta that forms naturally at the mouth of a river. Pump the green water up the hill above it and let it run down and through the natural filter of the wetland. What comes out should be clean and "smells some less." The electricity would probably be prohibitive though..
 

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I was thinking maybe making a section uphill of the lake into a man made natural wetland. With a winding stream bed, and reeds, plants and such. Like a delta that forms naturally at the mouth of a river. Pump the green water up the hill above it and let it run down and through the natural filter of the wetland. What comes out should be clean and "smells some less." The electricity would probably be prohibitive though..

Or it ends up creating a smelly wetland no one wants to visit.
 

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Figured we just get a local RDP vacation headquarters and remodel the old navy training hotel place at the bottom of the Ortega! Plenty of space for boat lift storage

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Yup, the old Elsinore Naval and Military Academy that closed in 1977. During the early '60's dad threatened on more than one occasion to ship my young ass to that place to get "Straightened Out" :oops:🤣
 

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Water levels have fluctuated there since records have been kept going back to Spanish explorers and early Spanish ranchos.

It was also a fancy place in the 30's Hollywood stars had houses around the lake

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Lake Elsinore was a popular destination in the first half of the 1900s for celebrities to escape the urban Hollywood scene. Many of their homes still stand on the hills surrounding the lake, including Aimee's Castle, a unique Moorish-style house built by Aimee Semple McPherson. Also, actor Bela Lugosi, known for his lead role in Universal Pictures' film, Dracula, built a home that still exists in the city's Country Club Heights district.
 
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