Rice Lake

[diggyj]

Went out yesterday with a buddy of mine Howie who up until yesterday has always been skunked on Rice Lake. He never catches anything while I always seem to catch something. He is no fish whisperer. So yesterday was a much diffrent story for him. He caught a monster rock bass, have never seen anything that size before, he caught a couple of OOS bass and caucht a walleye ouside the slot., 24".

We were out early in the morning for a couple of hours we and caught a few OOS bass. I also managed 2 jumbo perch and lost the biggest crappie of my life, it was the size of a small frisbee and imitated a smallie as it made quite an acrobaticg jump out of the water. After his leap the hook came out, very disappointing.

Our 2nd stint on the water from about 10:30am until 1 pm yielded a few more OOS bass and a total of 3 walleye. A managed 15 and 19.5inchers and he landed a 24" that was released.

A great day on the water and the weather was amazing. We fished in 10-15 FOW around a nice mid lake weedbed. We pitched and dunked in pockets and casted around and through the weed edges. The bait that seemed to work were slammers on a jig and white mister twister grubs.

Dirk

 

[fishfight]

Nice report and encouraging to hear your buddy finally got out of his jinks.

It is always an advantage to fish on your back yard where you know what is happening down at the bottom. Rice lake is a huge lake and fish has many places to hide. Not too easy to get the numbers for many who does not fish it often.

Another group I know went on saturday and fishng success was just mediocre for them, inspite of the number of hours they were on the water.

Fishing, like anything we do in life , is so much mental as it is physical, only hard work, time and money invested , understanding success and failures from previous experience eventually create mental confidence.