The crowd? NOW you're talking why I fish the place four or five times per year now instead of weekly. While I disagree with your analysis of the strength of the fish (let's let that one be), I could not agree with you more on the crowd front. What a bunch of yahoos! Drunken, obnoxious braggarts are all too common on the weekends, so don't even try to elbow your way down to the water on those days. Fish it on a Monday sometime.
Too many times when I left the lakes, I felt like I had been in a fight. That's why I like Laguna Niguel so much more now.