Rice Lake Walleye Open

[Steelcat]

My father, my brother, and I arrived at 797-BOAT Rental at 6am. We were surprise to see there were already a large number of boats already fishing. We got our boat at around 615, and immediately head to a spot far away from the crowd (we hate too many boats around while fishing)~! The wind was strong and the waves were a bit rough, but we managed to control our drift speed by lowering our anchor half way down. We were using jerkbaits and after 10 minutes of casting, I hooked up an out of season bass. 20 minutes later, we caught a 16 inches Walleye, 3 more casts later a 25 inches Walleye~! We all lost at least a couple walleye each, they were so aggressive that they chased our lure right beside our boat. 15 minutes passed and my dad suddenly yelled "Fish on~! It's heavy~!" Our heart rates immediately speed up~! As he reel in I saw the fish, it was HUGE~! It kept on fighthing and trying to dive under the boat. My dad managed to keep it under control. After 5 minutes of battle, we finally net it; to our surprise, it was a 35 inches Muskie (first for our family)~! It is very rare for anyone to catch a Muskie near Bewdley. After that excitment, all the fish seemed to disappeared. We had a theory that the Muskie were trying to feed and chased away all the fish Overall, we caught 3 Walleyes (the last one was 14 inches), around 10 Crappies 5 of them by jerkbait, 5 OOS Largemouth, and a Sunfish.

 

A cute little Sunfish

 

Crappie

 

The 25 inches Walleye

[jediangler]

Great report, and a nice variety of species.

Thank you for not posting pics of OOS fish

[Dondorfish]

Nice report Steelcat - and its great to see the use of PFD. Look forward to your future fishing reports.

 

 

Don

[mattyk]

nice fish, thanks for sharing a report.

[Mike the Pike]

WTG nice walleye !!!!!!!!!

[easton13th]

Nice looking fish!

 

Great Report!

 

Easton

[Smokey]

Great work Steelcat. Thanks for the report.

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Great Report. Thats a nice pickeral. We were thinking about going to rice for crappies and pickeral but declined due to the decline in the pickeral population. Though it looks like there are still alot of pickeral in rice.

[Clampet]

Nice sized Walleye!

Nice mix of eating fish, too!

[Black_Blade]

That was a beauty Walleye! I have never fished Rice as yet..hope to change that this season...I imagine it must always be a pretty busy lake tho, being well known and all...

[BryceBurzynski]

Nice report!

[Steelcat]

It is a busy lake, when you see tons of people fishing in the same area, go to an empty place. There are always fish avaliable all around the lake