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Topic subjectRE: Spring Lake
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21896, RE: Spring Lake
Posted by basserdave, Sun Jul-18-04 12:22 PM
I still fish Spring on a regular basis. I usually fish Saturday morning when the park opens till around 2:00 or so. This is the worst year I have ever seen. My biggest this year is only 5 lbs even. I have had some success drop shotting and flipping and very few on reaction baits. Most all of the areas that have produced in previous years seem to be void of fish. Like Andy said the water and weeds are kind of weird this year. I attributed that to spraying also but they have been that way all year. Hard to find healthy looking weeds. People are doing crazy things to this lake. Cutting down the toolies so they can get back in closer. There is also a lot of muskrats or some kind of critter that is cutting off the toolies and eating the tender shoots. I've seen lots of them munching on the toolies this year. Something ive not seen before. People have been taking way to many fish out of this lake the last couple of years. Ive seen lots of tubers with fish on stringers and the son and mother combo are killing all the bass they catch. Several people have said they have seen them stringing up all the bass they catch and ive seen it too. Not sure what kind of twisted reasoning they have for that. Any ways it does not take much to screw up a small lake like spring. I'm sure it will rebound but who knows when. All we can really do is try to educate people to catch and release and hope it sinks in.