ned small

15 hours ago, Beebee said:

Read everything here and I'm still ready to go for a swim!  Anyone else up for it, please contact me.  Maybe take a boat to the middle of the lake?  Many kids swim next to the pier in Ajijic.  I'm 70 and am not too worried about developing kidney disease at this point.  I've swum open water for years in La Jolla Cove, California, which has got to be pretty polluted despite being a marine park.  Oh, and the reason people want to swim in the lake is for the adventure of open water swimming.  The views of the land are amazing and you don't have to do turns.  

You are exceedingly  intelligent to disregard all the naysayers.

3 hours ago, cedros said:

True and you often don't need a degrees to know when someone is making things up.

No mames!

7 hours ago, Tiny said:

I keep a source with me all the time.

 

 

so you never met l. bobbit then

5 hours ago, mudgirl said:

Urine is actually sterile, can't make you sick, unlike Ecoli.

It's only sterile briefly when it is first expelled. At that time it's good for washing out a wound  instantly, directly from the source.

17 hours ago, ComputerGuy said:

Cedros, you don't have to be a degree graduate in a topic to be an expert. Just look at some of the people here who never graduated clown school, yet are still great at the job.

For someone who's still taking classes , you're doing rather well computergoy.

Wet suit,dry suit, scuba gear. Look at all those little kids in my picture cavorting in the water in full gear,never mind just  aqua shoes.

7 minutes ago, ibbocat said:

I doubt if the kids that swim in the lake have access to heated pools but if you want to open your doors to them  I am sure they would be grateful. 

Now there's a plan!

30 minutes ago, Mainecoons said:

The one on the bottom is but the one on the top is not atypical during the warmer weather.  The Mexicans do swim in the lake.  Judging from the bottom picture the gringos must take strong drink in with them.

Not that long ago this was published:

https://www.worldcrunch.com/food-travel/to-kill-a-river-how-mexico39s-santiago-was-polluted-beyond-repair

This river is the principal tributary to Lake Chapala.  I think I'll let y'all swim in it. 

 

The bottom photo is gringos and Mexicans  on a New Years day spending 20 minutes in the water supporting Cruz Roja to the tune of just under $200,000 pesos . i took the picture and was told by them ,that the water was considerably warmer than the air. During the hot season in May one year a group of us were having libations at the Beer Garden and all went in for a refreshing dip and swim.

1 minute ago, gringal said:

I don't question the validity and usefulness of Dr. Strong's work.  I question why anyone would want to swim in the cold lake with its unknown content bottom when there are much better tended and warmer pools, both private and commercial.  Fish, fine, but swim?  Brrr.

If you think it's that cold,etc. you have never been in it so why bother to comment on something you have no experience with.

25 minutes ago, Tiny said:

I could send I joke right now but people would not like. hahaha

I probably would.

2 minutes ago, cedros said:

It is a mystery to me why Mr. Stong keeps saying how clean it is.

No mystery. He and many other scientists and scientific organizations have done a lot of research over the years. Many people swim in it and not just Mexicans. i believe a couple of pictures are worth more than your constant negative words every time a lake topic comes up. Have a nice time swimming in your Raquette Club pool,cedros, but why don't you have it checked sometime for the urine to water ratio.

13 hours ago, modeeper said:

36 years in country.  A completed Master's dissertation in Mexican Family Values, WWU 1981.  BA in cognitive anthropology, U of Washington, go Huskies! 

Grew up in East LA, 80% Mexican population.  Mom was a polyglot and university prof., Spanish, French.  First came here in 1950.   30 years in TEFL, 20 of those in Latin America,  Most of those at Mexico's second-ranked university, El ITESO, and six years in the Marine Biology Dept at UABCS, TOEFL, English to Spanish textbook translator.   

Six months in a Mexican jail, San Juan del Rio, Michoacan. 

Three terms (Three months of duty for three decades) for the US Census Bureau as a bilingual census enumerator in LA, Modesto, San Francisco.  Court interpreter, 1 1/2 years in Central California.  Intrepertor for a large construction company in Seattle WA.   And I still can't roll an R.  Oh, and I skipped the first grade ... does that count?

Does that make me more credentialed than you, Toro?  

Listen to a tape of a male Austrian from around Saltzburg speaking  German and you'll be rolling your R's in no time like a champ.

21 hours ago, Zeb said:

We have gone many times.  It is busy with lots of cars, however, we can get a parking space.  There tends to be more spaces on the Soriana side, past the supermarket, in the side streets, then we just walk across.  The Tianguis really has a large selection of items and is it is less expensive then the one in Ajijic.

It's also about 3 times bigger than the other one but has a lot of the same vendors.

How do you know it's your sciatic nerve and not your femoral. Both affect your hip and one the back of the leg and the other the front. At a certain age deteriorating disc disease affect a lot of people. I agree with El Salto 100% on seeing an ortho surgeon but let them decide what diagnostics.

My name is ned and I am somewhat computer technically impaired so that's an impossibility. There were lots of pics taken at the bass event some by the Guadalajara Reporter in their article and many photos of very large carp over the years. You can see a group of the bass pics on another local board  and that is where I saw them. You are a member of it.

found an even better pic as proof.

On 6/2/2017 at 7:16 PM, Aquaponicsman said:

 

Lake Chapala Gains Status as Sport Fishing Venue

They show a picture of showing a couple of Largemouth Bass, claiming they caught one 2.75 Kilos (about 6 lbs)

I'm just not buying into this. The lake has been over-fished so much that no fish get big enough to breed, let alone get to 2.75 kilos.

What's the deal? Am I just misinformed on the over-fishing?

Yes you're misinformed. These largemouth were stocked a few years ago in the lake and as in other lakes in Mexico they come from Florida stock that grows fast and comes from warm water. This is from a group of pics from another local board taken some time ago and looks like the weeds west of the Chapala pier. Now obviously there is enough to have a tournament. There have also been some huge carp taken from the lake like this one on the Ajijic pier.

On 6/5/2017 at 2:50 PM, barrbower said:

Years ago the lake held large quantities of charales, catfish, perch, carp, and whitefish.  Tilapia was introduced at about the same time water levels began to drop and the tilapia ate everything else.  Now we have bass added and you can probably say goodbye to the tilapia and any small remaining populations of native fish. Not that I'm saying it is all a bad thing just that it will change because bass are voracious eaters and they will also eat small turtles and baby ducks and other birds.  Fun to catch though and could be good for the economy.  Alan

I waited a day to calm down. You can buy all those fish you mention including tilapia caught fresh every day at the fish mongers upstairs in the Chapala Mercado. Agua Milpa has commercial fishing for tilapia which grow up to about 2+ pounds there and a sport fishery for largemouth bass so they obviously get along. Although the bass is called largemouth it's mouth is generally not anatomically large enough to munch on turtles,baby ducks and, i'll throw in eggs too just for fun, along with other birds.If it does happen it's an anomaly and belongs in the Guiness Book of Records  and would have to be a very large bass in the 10 pound+ range. I would take those youtube videos you've been watching with a bit of scepticism. Tilapia has become the commercial fish of choice here because of their rapid growth. They are farmed in pens off Mezcala Island as well as on land too.

14 minutes ago, greengrosser said:

Yes Sir, I  have just had my questions answered concerning water quality in the "gringo paradise" of Chapala. The crooks just keep peddeling 200kUSD

houses on what is a just a sewer in disquise. What a sick sick joke. But then is there ANY clean water in Mexico? Please advise. Meanwhile Chapala is off my list.

Enjoy life in sewer Gringos!

We hid  the actual scientific studies on Lake Chapala that show otherwise in order to keep this place to ourselves which has been proven to be cleaner than a lot of beaches on the California coast. By the way since this is a thread on fishing there are some rivers in Mexico that harbour Golden Trout which cannot tolerate even the mildest pollution. This lake has a commercial fishery for carp,talapia,catfish,whitefish,charales and recently introduced largemouth bass,that's how bad it is. I have also seen people swimming in it and turning fluorescent green.

16 hours ago, geeser said:

There is no MRI machine at lakeside. You might ask at that new hospital going in to Jocotepec.

You may need a doctor to write the instructions as to anatomy area in Spanish for the MRI tech

No need to go there. Any doctor here can make MRI or CAT appointment for you at several places in Guadalajara,specialty clinic or hospital.

22 hours ago, pappysmarket said:

Directions in Mexico usually include "It's close to..........". Usually Oxxo or Pemex is involved.

Next to the Tuesday market is closer than close to,no?

On 11/17/2016 at 5:20 PM, dichosalocura said:

Has anybody in the Chapala area seen these really cool looking blue bananas that allegedly taste just like vanilla ice cream.  I would love to have one but I have not been successful in finding them for sale in Mexico on-line.  You can easily order them in the States from nurseries in Florida but can't seem to find them here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ice-cream-bananas_us_55f8d911e4b0d6492d638853

I have seen bananas like this at the Chapala market,Walmart and Soriana. they get over ripe quicker than regular but if you buy them too green it seems they never ripen.They taste best when they're slightly green.I like them because they're sweeter than regular bananas but i've never thought of them tasting like vanilla ice cream.

Katya is in Chapala and Chava is the nick name for persons named Salvador. I got a garafone from him yesterday and he delivered when he said he would. 19 pesos