What a remarkably intelligent post. I posted this as an FYI/interest post, and the information (including the picture) is accurate.
BTW, ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I spend probably much more time than I should at Laguna Niguel. Rick, Keith, Jeff, Adam and Phil (at least when he was there) will vouch for this. My attraction to SARL is as a big-game hunt/nostalgia trip (I learned to fish there).
Alpers are definitely nice fish, and Mr. Alpers does a fine job within his niche. While I wish I could fish the Eastern Sierra more than twice a year, time and money prohibit it. And Green Valley Lake just doesn't appeal to me.
Your "elitist" attitude about fishing is the kind of attitude that turns newbies off to our sport. Put a kid or anyone else down for fishing there, let alone enjoying it, and they stand a chance to stop fishing period. We need to draw more to the sport we love called fishing, and places like SARL go miles to that end. Don't like it? Don't fish there. But don't ridicule those who do.