Rice Lake advice

TintWizard · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:33 am **Posts:** 359

Just wondering if there's any experienced Rice Lake advice on the forum in respects to lures, time of day for particular species , etc as I will be fishing that area more at Golden Beach Resort.

jjz · **Joined:** Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:18 am **Posts:** 231

well I have had limited success for walleye in the couple trips I have made there. Obviously the lake has huge potential, I never got a chance to really explore it because both years we were there we experienced some pretty wicked weather so half our time was spent in the cabin or close by the lodge.
I fished it in the past on opener so I suspect this time of year it will be a giant mat of weeds so if you like dunking and ripping bucktails for walleye and bass you will be in paradise. If you like jigging or trolling its a little tougher to find the weed edges, if you look for the marker bouys for the trent waterway it will give you an idea where the deeper open water is, and by deep I mean 18-24fow I think the lake maxes out at a depth of 27ft. At dusk the bouys by Tick island produce good numbers of walleye, also had some luck on the back (west) side of Tick island throwing stickbaits and swimming a jig/grub at dusk. Again a very limited sample size but most of my walleye came on a 1/8oz jig with a 3" smoke salt&pepper Kalins grub.

TintWizard · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:33 am **Posts:** 359

Thanks for the advice ! We just got a waterfront cottager so looking forward to heading out early morning in the kayak hunting some game . I am relatively close to tick island as well !

ROCKET · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:57 am

If the weather is good,fish the old railway line ,all the way across from Tick to the north shore ,flip the docks for largies,mouth of the Idian river for Crappy and outside weed edges for the Walleye,rip jiggin!!!Good Luck!! :wink:

BigMac · **Joined:** Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:18 pm **Posts:** 1383

Also had good luck casting weed lines with chart worm harnesses or spinners

BrutemanAl · **Joined:** Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:15 am **Posts:** 9

I used to fish Rice lake 4 or 5 times a week , always had great luck fishing around Black Island on the south side of it , during the day it was small mouth , and at night pickeral in the 2-3 lb range with the odd 4-5 lbs . Or we had good luck fishing sheep island on the north side for small mouth and on the south side we caught quite a few large mouth . We also use to fish just west of the main entrance to the Otonbee River , to the west is another entrance to the Otonabee that is not used by bigger boats , during the day we would catch large mouth , crappie , perch , ect ect and on a nice still night with surface lures the muskie's came alive. Then we also would just find a spot on the Otonabee , tie up to a tree or drop the anchor near the shore and drop a minnow or leach over the edge of the boat and sit and wait , pulled some nice large mouth and small mouth doing this , we would also go up the edge of the Otonabee casting into shore , pulling out large mouth . There is also some bays and back swampy area's , but you can only get into them with a small aluminum boat and motor .

cantcatchacold · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:59 am

I'm 2 for 2 now in tourneys on rice and just use bucktails and harnesses. If your out of golden beach head north to drift the weed line out from tic island headed towards Hiawatha. Fish deep 17-21 fow

cantcatchacold · **Posted:** Thu Aug 15, 2013 9:00 am

And that's for eyes sorry. For bass fish the deeper cribs and humps. Everyone and their brother is fishing shore structure. Stay deeper and it will pay off

TintWizard · **Joined:** Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:33 am **Posts:** 359

Fantastic tips folks, thanks ! I appreciate !

Walleye 9 · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 12:05 pm **Posts:** 1985

I just spent 4 days last week fishing Rice. The first 2 days, we were targeting bass, and didn't have much luck. I switched the rods over to walleye gear, and on the 3rd day we got into them. I drifted over a spot in about 25-29 FOW, and my sonar lit up like Christmas tree. We ended up with 6 eyes in about 2 hours, with the biggest being 5 pounds, and 2 others were over the slot. We went back out in the morning, and the fish were still there, but would not bite.
If you're marking fish on the bottom in deep water, get a bouncer/harness down there!!!
Also, we caught a s**t load of Crappies too in the deep water.

Good Luck!!

Stoty · **Joined:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:47 pm **Posts:** 200

I fish Rice all the time and weedlines in 8-12 feet and some of Big Jim's bucktails are all you need....

justfishing89 · **Joined:** Sun Aug 25, 2013 9:31 am **Posts:** 7

If you are looking for walleye just rip bucktails in behind sugar island (from the island to about 1km back). You will boat a fair share!

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