Went to Blazin Bills last night. Noticed how much water Akron sucked out of LaDue. Too bad, IMHO.

 

Yup. I stopped there to look around today on my way home from Pymie. I'm also surprised that they're pulling so much water out this early. Hard to figure!

 

Akron is trying to keep the level of Lake Rockwell up in the hopes of limiting algae blooms within. Lake Rockwell has silted in so bad that it's depth has shallowed immensely resulting in higher water temps resulting mass algae blooms. When precipitation is scarce, there only option is to draw from Ladue

 

Any reports for Ladue lately? I've been meaning to get out there this summer.

 

Fished ladue last weekend still lots of white perch but I managed to catch a nice catfish. Water very low so just be careful at the ramp.

 

East Branch is of course the same......

 

Stupid, maybe someday they'll just dredge Rockwell or something or they really badly dont want a gas motor on rockwell....

 

All about the green our state don’t care enough about all the lakes and fisheries!!!

 

The city of Akron controls LaDue's levels, not the state. Fishing is not the primary purpose of LaDue. None of our man made reservoirs in NE Ohio are.

 

question for maybe icebucket but what happened to not being allowed on the shorelines? I thought when I was younger and fished there a lot you could only fish the bridges. Went to the fair over the weekend and people were all over the place.

 

Rockwell is still off limits, but the other reservoir shorelone access limiting have been eased somewhat

 

From what i have red everywhere online Ladue (1963) and East branch (1939) were intially constructed as akrons water supply and for flood control. To replenish the upper cuyahoga in times of low precipitation. Per the city of Akron and the DNR.

 

Low precipitation is not or should not be every year. (BTW: we had record rainfall in April through June this year, FWIW.)
The game has changed as the EPA has implemented debatable rules as to the water quality requirements of the Cuyahoga River and Akron has agreed to remove several dams on the River.
The dam removal has been very successful. But, to satisfy the EPA, Akron often uses LaDue and East Branch as a faucet to simply increase the flow on the Cuyahoga to meet these EPA rules. The Brecksville Dam is apparently on the verge of removal but the Gorge Dam poses several clean up problems.
My HOPE is that when the last dam gets removed, East Branch and LaDue can stay full longer or all year.
My pipe dream is that Geauga Park District buys one or both reservoirs from Akron.

 

Low precipitation is not or should not be every year. (BTW: we had record rainfall in April through June this year, FWIW.)
The game has changed as the EPA has implemented debatable rules as to the water quality requirements of the Cuyahoga River and Akron has agreed to remove several dams on the River.
The dam removal has been very successful. But, to satisfy the EPA, Akron often uses LaDue and East Branch as a faucet to simply increase the flow on the Cuyahoga to meet these EPA rules. The Brecksville Dam is apparently on the verge of removal but the Gorge Dam poses several clean up problems.
My HOPE is that when the last dam gets removed, East Branch and LaDue can stay full longer or all year.
My pipe dream is that Geauga Park District buys one or both reservoirs from Akron.

Lol as I've/we've stated every year for the last 10 year's

 

Years ago, they city of Akron was not letting out enough water from Lake Rockwell at times during the summer and it was severely effecting the water quality of the river downstream. I think there was a lawsuit and the result was that they set a minimum flow that Akron has to let out of Rockwell at all times. They are probably using Ladue to maintain that minimum flow. We haven't had any significant rain in 3 weeks.

 

They are doing some work on the boat ramp with a pile of rocks. Hopefully it can be launchable soon.

 

Is the ramp off E. Washington currently usable?

 

I'm waiting for the water temp to drop a little there are some big hungry girls in there that are gonna strap the feed bag on and I'm gonna work them up! I know secrets most don't it's about to be eye time

 

I think I might know where you're talking about

 

No yet

 

Thanks Dubois. Info appreciated.

 

You been spying one me?? Lol

 

Any updates on what the lake is lookin like? Headed to Erie next week and wanted to stop thru for a half day.

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To warm still hit it for a few hrs and nothing. Super low more than I expected

 

Fished it a couple times this weekend. Fishing was OK. Lake is down between 6' and 7' based on the bridge pilings at rt 44. I've seen waterfowlers launch little boats at rt 44 ramp, but I don't honestly know how. It's a giant mud flat. Not sure on the ramp on the big part of the lake.

 

The main ramp is so low that even launching from the far end of now dried land is almost impossible, there is only lest than 2 feet of water to play with. The rest is just dried or wet mud. Water temp around 64 degree.

 

This is why I despise the way Akron treats this reservoir.
If someone can explain to me how pulling this much water out is "flood control", I'm all ears.
If that's not enough, Erie is dangerously HIGH right now.....and has been all year.
While H2O from Ladue is totally immaterial to Erie's overall water level, adding to it makes NO sense.
And if the EPA is trying to improve the Environment, I'd wager they've done more harm to the watershed around LaDue than they have gained by keeping up the Cuyahoga's flow rate.
This is simply the pet project of several people....and should be stopped immediately.....IMHO.

 

Sounds like Akron is as Clueless as Columbus on managing waterways.
My daughter recently bought a house in Mantua, and as a bassfreak I have always wanted to try Ladue. Is it even possible to launch my 19' fiberglass bassboat??
I plan to bring waders for my son in law to launch and load. lol

Appreciate the updates fella's

 

Nope not till the lake goes back up I can barely launch my 14' aluminum with nothing in it

 

Akron signed an agreement years ago that they must provide X amount of water for the cuyahoga river. X amount of water has to come from someplace, ie ladue. There are minimal lakes around that are managed strictly for recreation. I you want a lake that is always fishable, check out mogadore or portage lakes!
Side note, is there anything people don't complain about?