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Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:38 pm
by otaymichael
Concession closed. Used Iron ranger. Had a nice half day on the water today. Nice warm sunny Afternoon. Semi windless. Water 65. Fish on beds. Got some real nice top water action going. While leaving one of the Lake staff said that the lake may close on Saturday due to an algae bloom according to a biologist.
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am
by Gotfish?
Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.
Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:35 am
by DarkShadow
Closed....opened....closed again.
Why did they even open it back up in the first place if the bloom is so bad it requires another closing?
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:24 am
by jjc
What risk does an algae bloom pose that requires shutting down a lake?
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:42 am
by DarkShadow
jjc wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:24 am
What risk does an algae bloom pose that requires shutting down a lake?
Lawyers.
Little Timmy goes a'swimmin' off the dock and then dies after suckin' down some water, someone is going to be held liable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 583980001/
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:46 am
by Nelson 1
DarkShadow wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:42 am
jjc wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 10:24 am
What risk does an algae bloom pose that requires shutting down a lake?
That was funny
Lawyers.
Little Timmy goes a'swimmin' off the dock and then dies after suckin' down some water, someone is going to be held liable.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 583980001/
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 3:15 pm
by Jussdone805
On our way back from our Sierras trip last September, we stopped at Diaz Lake outside of Lone Pine since we slayed largies there the year before. Greeted by signs everywhere, toxic algae bloom. Do not touch the water, do not smell the water, do not even look at the water, pretend the water isn't there, (exaggerations by me obviously). Pretty sad and disconcerting.
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 3:16 am
by Dannicus
Awesome Michael, what topwater were you throwing? It sucks that it might be closed, I was planning to go this weekend....booo!
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 9:37 am
by Borderbasser
Topwater in Feb is wild. Solid job
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:10 am
by Queue
Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am
Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.
Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.
Quaggas (and soon to be golden mussels) actually make cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) blooms worse.
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:25 pm
by Gotfish?
Queue wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:10 am
Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am
Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.
Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.
Quaggas (and soon to be golden mussels) actually make cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) blooms worse.
Amazing, they somehow can spit out blue-green algae. No redeeming value whatsoever.
We need some sort of fish to eat the quaggas. In the northeast, gobies eat a lot of the zebra and quagga mussels but biologists get upset about introducing any species. Red ear sunfish eat quaggas, I don't know if those are at Otay or not, doesn't appear so. Maybe the lake should be stocked with some red ears.
https://extension.illinois.edu/invasive ... %20reduced.
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:47 am
by galen
Gotfish? wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:25 pm
Queue wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:10 am
Gotfish? wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:53 am
Where are those quagga mussels when we need them? I thought they were supposed to suck up all the nutrients and algae.
Mussels are about as lazy as a creature can get.
Quaggas (and soon to be golden mussels) actually make cyanobacterial (blue-green algae) blooms worse.
Amazing, they somehow can spit out blue-green algae. No redeeming value whatsoever.
We need some sort of fish to eat the quaggas. In the northeast, gobies eat a lot of the zebra and quagga mussels but biologists get upset about introducing any species. Red ear sunfish eat quaggas, I don't know if those are at Otay or not, doesn't appear so. Maybe the lake should be stocked with some red ears.
https://extension.illinois.edu/invasive ... %20reduced.
Havasu shellcrackers
Re: Otay news concerning closing again.
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 10:11 am
by Dannicus
I drove by the lake today and it's open with boats, kayaks and float tubes on the water