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Visit Anaheim Lake — again
August 29, 2002
By DAVE STREGE, The Orange County Register
Anaheim Lake has islands, a good amount of trees for shade and doesn't have a freeway running by.
Some anglers learned to fish there. Some grew up with fond memories of catching fish there. Some just love to fish this intimate fishing hole.
Well, they get their annual chance beginning today.
Santa Ana River Lakes closed Wednesday for maintenance and the fishing operation has moved to Anaheim Lake, which opens today.
The lake was heavily stocked with catfish, among them fish weighing more than 12 pounds, according to co-concessionaire Doug Elliott.
The lake is open daily 6 a.m.-4 p.m. and 5 p.m.-11 p.m. with 24-hour passes and free camping available Friday and Saturday nights.
Anaheim Lake will remain open through Nov. 1 or thereabouts, and Santa Ana River Lakes will reopen soon after with its trout opener.
The Orange County Water District plans to lower the water level at Santa Ana River Lakes in order to clean the sides so the water will percolate into the underground water table.
It plans to leave 10-15 feet of water so the fish will survive. The OCWD did that last year and didn't lose one fish, Elliott said.
That's good news since the lakes received hundreds of bass, crappie and catfish from the sand pits on the border of Orange and Villa Park.
The water district drained the pits to install new pumps at the bottom, and Elliott arranged to save the fish and prevent the fish smell that comes from a die-off.
Elliott purchased an electro-shock boat. SARL lake personnel made 19 trips and collected bass, catfish and crappie - about 50 each trip.
All were on the large size. The bass averaged 3-4 pounds, the catfish 4-8 pounds and the crappie 2.
"When it was all done, we had all the gamefish and there were no dead fish and no smell," Elliott said.
August 29, 2002
By DAVE STREGE, The Orange County Register
Anaheim Lake has islands, a good amount of trees for shade and doesn't have a freeway running by.
Some anglers learned to fish there. Some grew up with fond memories of catching fish there. Some just love to fish this intimate fishing hole.
Well, they get their annual chance beginning today.
Santa Ana River Lakes closed Wednesday for maintenance and the fishing operation has moved to Anaheim Lake, which opens today.
The lake was heavily stocked with catfish, among them fish weighing more than 12 pounds, according to co-concessionaire Doug Elliott.
The lake is open daily 6 a.m.-4 p.m. and 5 p.m.-11 p.m. with 24-hour passes and free camping available Friday and Saturday nights.
Anaheim Lake will remain open through Nov. 1 or thereabouts, and Santa Ana River Lakes will reopen soon after with its trout opener.
The Orange County Water District plans to lower the water level at Santa Ana River Lakes in order to clean the sides so the water will percolate into the underground water table.
It plans to leave 10-15 feet of water so the fish will survive. The OCWD did that last year and didn't lose one fish, Elliott said.
That's good news since the lakes received hundreds of bass, crappie and catfish from the sand pits on the border of Orange and Villa Park.
The water district drained the pits to install new pumps at the bottom, and Elliott arranged to save the fish and prevent the fish smell that comes from a die-off.
Elliott purchased an electro-shock boat. SARL lake personnel made 19 trips and collected bass, catfish and crappie - about 50 each trip.
All were on the large size. The bass averaged 3-4 pounds, the catfish 4-8 pounds and the crappie 2.
"When it was all done, we had all the gamefish and there were no dead fish and no smell," Elliott said.
