spring lake

hi – never see anything posted about Spring Lake – just off upper Prior Lake. drove past this weekend and was packed along the west side… any reports: how’s the ice, how’s the fishing – – anything out there

I don’t know, I won’t attempt to fish it in winter after last year, spent like 20-30 hours on the ice, caught 4 fish, there are fish to be caught if your on the spot, I happened to be 30 feet away and couple even see a fish.

All that said I tried to fish it a couple times this summer and it just wasn’t any good for me this past year, IMHO I think you’d be better off sticking to prior. I also think there are only short periods where fish are caught, where as prior it seems you can catch fish all day. Though I probably have not really truely fished it enough to say that’s true for sure.

I talked to a kid in Prior lake bait shop last week and he said the crappie bite was good on the north end of Spring in 17 to 20 fow. I fished there Sunday and caught 20 or so gills and a couple very small bass but didn’t see a crappie. there is definately a lot of houses out there. I’m going back tommorow to give it one more try for some crappie action. D.

Is there any size to the crappies on Spring?

i did get out on saturday – most of day til dusk

caught 1 keeper sunnie — and of course being the rookie — i had 2 real nice size crappies to the hole and lost them — was fishing boat launch side and walke to the mid east side of lake