diggyj
Rice Lake Master
A nice Friday evening Sunset.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Decided to get out on Saturday morning to do some fishing, weather permitting. Started casting off my dock at around 6:30am and I was throwing a Top Water lure. Decided to go with a Rapala Skitter Pop SP07 in the Silver colour. Casted for about an hour with no luck. I usually have some success with this lure but action was dead.
Headed out in the boat to work a nice stretch of shoreline west of Margaret Island. I was hoping for 2 purposes, the first was to give the new trolling motor a nice workout and the second was catch some fish.
This is the stretch of shore I was working.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
It was an ideal morning, sun was cresting the shoreline above me and some of the water was in the sun while some was in the shade. I was casting a Rapala J07 in the Silver Fluorescent Chartreuse Colour towards the shore. The new Motor Guide works like a charm.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
After about 10 minutes I land my first fish of the day, a Smallie just over 2 lbs. After working this stretch for about an hour and a half, I landed a total of 6 fish. 1 Rockbass, 4 Largies and 1 Smallmouth. This shoreline is a transition from weed to rocks. I was fishing in 5-8 FOW.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
While this may have been good for some people, I was disappointed as they were all just in the 2 Lb range and I also lost 2 much larger fish and was getting lots of action on the Jointed Rapala.
One of the Largies I landed was quite small, 3 inch range, so it was from a spawner a few years ago. Shows there are young fish growing, good for the lakes future
Was swapping fish from the livewell as I could only keep 2 with the Conservation license.
Headed in for about an hour to have something to eat then came back out.
Started working deeper water, 10-15 feet, with a HJ10 Firetiger and caught another small Largie in 12 FOW. Action slowed down so I threw a spinner bait as well as some tubes and senkos. Action seemed to come to a screeching halt.
Fished until about 1:30pm. Headed in and called it a day.
All in all, not a bad day, but at the same time, not a great day. Fishing was slow as the weather and winds kept changing.
Fished a total of 6 hours and manged a total of 7 fish. If I was in a tournament I would have had a 5 fish limit with a weight of probably around 11-12 lbs.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Got in the car and headed home. Rain started at about 4:30pm and then on the 401, the skies just opened up all the way home.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Dirk
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Decided to get out on Saturday morning to do some fishing, weather permitting. Started casting off my dock at around 6:30am and I was throwing a Top Water lure. Decided to go with a Rapala Skitter Pop SP07 in the Silver colour. Casted for about an hour with no luck. I usually have some success with this lure but action was dead.
Headed out in the boat to work a nice stretch of shoreline west of Margaret Island. I was hoping for 2 purposes, the first was to give the new trolling motor a nice workout and the second was catch some fish.
This is the stretch of shore I was working.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
It was an ideal morning, sun was cresting the shoreline above me and some of the water was in the sun while some was in the shade. I was casting a Rapala J07 in the Silver Fluorescent Chartreuse Colour towards the shore. The new Motor Guide works like a charm.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
After about 10 minutes I land my first fish of the day, a Smallie just over 2 lbs. After working this stretch for about an hour and a half, I landed a total of 6 fish. 1 Rockbass, 4 Largies and 1 Smallmouth. This shoreline is a transition from weed to rocks. I was fishing in 5-8 FOW.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
While this may have been good for some people, I was disappointed as they were all just in the 2 Lb range and I also lost 2 much larger fish and was getting lots of action on the Jointed Rapala.
One of the Largies I landed was quite small, 3 inch range, so it was from a spawner a few years ago. Shows there are young fish growing, good for the lakes future
Was swapping fish from the livewell as I could only keep 2 with the Conservation license.
Headed in for about an hour to have something to eat then came back out.
Started working deeper water, 10-15 feet, with a HJ10 Firetiger and caught another small Largie in 12 FOW. Action slowed down so I threw a spinner bait as well as some tubes and senkos. Action seemed to come to a screeching halt.
Fished until about 1:30pm. Headed in and called it a day.
All in all, not a bad day, but at the same time, not a great day. Fishing was slow as the weather and winds kept changing.
Fished a total of 6 hours and manged a total of 7 fish. If I was in a tournament I would have had a 5 fish limit with a weight of probably around 11-12 lbs.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Got in the car and headed home. Rain started at about 4:30pm and then on the 401, the skies just opened up all the way home.
By diggyj, shot with DSC-W5 at 2009-07-25
Dirk
