Beginner to Rice Lake needs your help :-)

[Xun Cai]

Hi I am a beginner and heading to rice lake with my small boat and fish finder this weekend.
Since I am a beginner I am gonna focus only on some fish like bass and pike.
And also I will only focus on some easy and efficient technique like dropshots, bottom fishing and jigging.

And I have some questions regarding to rice lake for early fall ( this weekend)
1. What kind of fish you recommand me to focus? Bass, pike and maybe sun fish??
2. Now, it's early fall in rice lake, can you guys give me useful tips to find fish?
3. What kind of lure I should use in this time? I know maybe Live bait, worm, jig, tube... Anything?
Should I use Buzzbait??

Can you guys recommand good lure that can fish multiple type of fish so I can easily get some luck?


4. In terms of color, I heard that I should choose white color since they are after shad at this time, is it right?

5. For fishing techique, since it's deep water and its lake, I guess you guys won't use crankbait right?
Instead, we should mostly use dropshot, bottom fishing, trolling and jigging, is it correct?

So should I only focus on deep water fishing technique?
Can you tell me what would you guys do in this time of year in rice lake to catch fish?


5.1 how about line, should I use 8 lbs or heavier?

6. alone the shore, can I also find largemouth in the lili pond and heavy veggie and dock?

7. For trolling, what kind of lure I should use and depth. And for trolling what kind of fish I can catch?

 

[hamiltonangler94]

Hi just a word of advice, if you contribute to the forum first people will be more willing to help you out. So many people come on this forum to be given out free info with out doing any of the work.

 

[ChromeAddict]

1. Bass and sunfish will be a good bet this time of year. The walleye bite should also be pretty good.

2. Fish are feeding. Smallmouths should be positioned on rock feeding on crayfish. Largemouth will be seeking out green weeds, along with walleye. Sunfish should be in any shallow, fertile area.

3. Jigs for walleye (bucktails work best in weeds). Weedless jigs, plastics and shallow crankbaits for largemouth. Anything small for panfish. Tube jigs work best (IMO) for smallmouth.

4. Use the color that imitates what the fish are feeding on.

Rice Lake is a shallow lake. Find GREEN weeds and you should find fish. Crankbaits work well in rocks areas and when fished shallow above weeds.

5. It depends on what you are fishing on and what technique you are using. A good all around line is 10-20lb braid. I like to use a flourocarbon leader as well. Go heavier on the line and rod when fishing in heavy vegetation for bass and walleye, and go a bit lighter for smallmouths. A flourocarbon leader is important when fishing around rock because it holds up to abrasion better. You can also use monofilament for your leader.

6. You can definitely find largemouth along shorelines and docks/vegetation. It is really fun fishing. Weightless senkos work very well for this.

7. I would stay away from trolling for now, unless you have muskie gear.

Good luck at Rice Lake, it is a great fishery. Hope this helped.

 

[Xun Cai]

1. Bass and sunfish will be a good bet this time of year. The walleye bite should also be pretty good.

2. Fish are feeding. Smallmouths should be positioned on rock feeding on crayfish. Largemouth will be seeking out green weeds, along with walleye. Sunfish should be in any shallow, fertile area.

3. Jigs for walleye (bucktails work best in weeds). Weedless jigs, plastics and shallow crankbaits for largemouth. Anything small for panfish. Tube jigs work best (IMO) for smallmouth.

4. Use the color that imitates what the fish are feeding on.

Rice Lake is a shallow lake. Find GREEN weeds and you should find fish. Crankbaits work well in rocks areas and when fished shallow above weeds.

5. It depends on what you are fishing on and what technique you are using. A good all around line is 10-20lb braid. I like to use a flourocarbon leader as well. Go heavier on the line and rod when fishing in heavy vegetation for bass and walleye, and go a bit lighter for smallmouths. A flourocarbon leader is important when fishing around rock because it holds up to abrasion better. You can also use monofilament for your leader.

6. You can definitely find largemouth along shorelines and docks/vegetation. It is really fun fishing. Weightless senkos work very well for this.

7. I would stay away from trolling for now, unless you have muskie gear.

Good luck at Rice Lake, it is a great fishery. Hope this helped.

Thanks so much for your help. I am a totally new guy to fishing

 

[ChromeAddict]

One more tip: choose 1 section if the lake and get to know it well. Since Rice is such a big body of water, trying to take on the entire lake won't work. Break the water up into smaller sections and fish them 1 at a time.

 

[Xun Cai]

One more tip: choose 1 section if the lake and get to know it well. Since Rice is such a big body of water, trying to take on the entire lake won't work. Break the water up into smaller sections and fish them 1 at a time.

Yeah that is a good idea. I started with the docking area and shallow water and caught some big large mouth. Then I moved to 2 other areas to catch smallies and walleyes. THX again!

 

[alwayscatching]

The temps are too low and the crayfish are shut down from what I've seen. Use minnow type baits for bass

 

[Poisonfrog]

I am also new to rice lake. Just moved to the area and have my boat at harris. Good bass fishing for sure. I have only fished around the stumps so far .