View Full Version : Balboa Lake going off
Herefishfishyfish
09-05-2018, 09:44 AM
Hi, it's been a long time!
My boyfriend and I have been fishing Balboa Park (I guess it's called anthony c beilenson park, now) Bass bite is going off, tilapia bite is slowing down, but still nice. Getting a lot done with a Carolina rig and some roboworms.
Tony91723
09-07-2018, 01:36 AM
Looks like that bass is on a stringer? I thought reclaimed water was in that lake?
DarkShadow
09-07-2018, 09:32 AM
I thought reclaimed water was in that lake?
It is.
To each their own, I say.
tpfishnfool
09-07-2018, 11:45 AM
Going off like typhoid mary !
Hazmat stat !!!
Herefishfishyfish
09-08-2018, 09:14 PM
Looks like that bass is on a stringer? I thought reclaimed water was in that lake?
The bass was on a stringer, but for a few minutes and safely released. We wouldn't eat from that place and we wouldn't keep bass (though we would have been perfectly within our rights to do so).
Herefishfishyfish
09-08-2018, 09:20 PM
I never had haters on any of my other posts here. I/we enjoy catching for sport and assume most of you do, too. You're welcome to kick rocks with your negativity. I'll take my reports to a friendlier, more supportive board. This clearly isn't the place that used to be.
Theos
09-08-2018, 11:09 PM
I never had haters on any of my other posts here. I/we enjoy catching for sport and assume most of you do, too. You're welcome to kick rocks with your negativity. I'll take my reports to a friendlier, more supportive board. This clearly isn't the place that used to be.
Young lady I would like to apologize for the forum for being somewhat rude. But the water is called grey water because it's recycled. Most fishermen catch a bass like that and release it hopefully since they have a high fat content and store poisons. Balboa lake used to have foam on top of it from the sewage treatment process, I would wash off my rods and reels if I were you when finishing a session there, and don't forget your hands. The tilapia is a beauty, looks like stock from an aquarium. Many people release their unwanted aquatic pets at lake balboa. Tilapia; Arrowana, Oscar cichlids etc. can all be caught there on red worms.
etucker1959
09-09-2018, 05:40 AM
I never had haters on any of my other posts here. I/we enjoy catching for sport and assume most of you do, too. You're welcome to kick rocks with your negativity. I'll take my reports to a friendlier, more supportive board. This clearly isn't the place that used to be.
Unfortunately, fishing forum boards are like driving on the 5 freeway from Orange county to San Diego. (where people are weaving in and out of traffic at 90 mph) Peoples true nature comes out especially if they think they can get away with it! Don't feel too bad, I'm on another Saltwater fishing forum but don't post any pictures of killing sharks on that one. Especially if they small or too big. They get the same responses that you unfortunately received.
drifter023
09-09-2018, 03:45 PM
Nice fish keep if you want and do not let the haters bug you. Thats there problem.
Tony91723
09-09-2018, 11:21 PM
No hate here, just asking about the treatment/quality of the water and if you knew. Also just assumed since the bass was on a stringer you were going to eat it.
etucker1959
09-10-2018, 08:37 AM
I don't mean to thread jack but several people mention reclaimed water like it's a terrible thing. The reason why I bring this up, but most of the ponds I catfish in have signs about reclaimed water being used. So what are you people saying, the catfish that are stocked like at Guasti are being put into poison water and eater's beware????
MarkyMark
09-10-2018, 11:05 AM
The responses are an example why a lot of people have left this board...
MM
First post on FN boards!
My girls and I just fished Balboa tonight for the first time, it was fun, mainly because it's right down the street from us and we could just make a quick outing out of it... I picked them up from school and off to the park, we got about an hour and half in before it got dark.
We're all relatively new to fishing, only been at it for ~3 months, I was mainly trying to work on getting the hang of my new baitcaster (Piscifun Torrent) and caught one Tilapia while figuring out how not to tangle the thing.
The girls didn't catch anything but were happy to pose for the picture :)
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