Springbrook Lake State Park fishing report

Headed up to Springbrook State Park this morning. It is only about 7 miles away, so it is an easy getaway.

Now that school is back in session, many area schools come to Springbrook for field trips. Springbrook has an excellent education center, activities, great trails and a secret stash of kayaks for the kids to take out on the lake (I'm not quite sure why they don't rent them out to campers). Now, since it is a tiny lake, only 15 acres, having 20 or so kids learning to use kayaks can get crowded – fast!  Today there happened to be a very large class, split into three groups of about 20 or so. Kayaking, fishing and hiking. The fishing group made a beeline to the jetty I was fishing on, but I managed to cast two times and hook a nice 8 to 9 inch crappie. Since there were a lot of kids and plenty of grown-ups to help out, I surrendered my spot and moved to the good hole. The one that holds +6 lb largemouth bass. Even with all the kids fishing and kayaks coming 5 feet from where I was along with half of them playing bumper boats, the fishing was good. Not quite as peaceful as I hoped, but 5 bass and 1 crappie in an hour ain't bad. And all were caught using a Yo-Zuri Jerk-O in tasty Lemon Shad, which I absolutely love. Perfect shallow water bait.