Rice Lake Bass Opener~

[Steelcat]

Weather was sunny and cold. The wind was blowing from N to NW pretty strong. With a cold weather for the past couple of days, we knew that today will be a slow day. We arrived at Bewdley at 6:15am, we blasted off at around 6:30. To our surprise, there weren't too many boats out on the lake. We started to fish immediately using senko as well as spinnerbait. We drift all over the area until 9am, NO bite~! Then we switch to our other location this time we mainly use senko and jig/grub. At around 11am, we managed to catch a Sunfish. After 30 more minutes of drifting, we finally got our first 2007 open season bass. It was a nice 17 inches Largemouth. After that one, they suddenly started to bite. One after an other total we caught around 18 bass, one nice 17 inches Smallmouth. We also managed to catch 2 Crappie around 10 inches, as well as a lovely Rock Bass. After 2:30pm, the bite stopped again so we called it a day. Overall, it was a nice opener except for the slow bite.

 

Our first fish of the day

First opener Largemouth~!

Here's one of the two Crappie.

A nice size Smallmouth.

Lovely Rock Bass

Several more Largemouth to call it a day

One of the Largemouth was gorged on baby bullhead, seems like this bass found the nest and "babysit" all of them. Here's one of them ><

Edited June 24, 2007 by Steelcat

[lunkerbasshunter]

sorry about the slow bite but good on you guys for sticking it out until they got more active! Some nice fish there.

 

Cheers!

[sunfish]

nice report ...hope you left me some bass for tomorrow. i'll be up there nice and early. hope to be as lucky as you.

 

any pointers? did the senko's work better than the spinners?

 

hope to post my first report tomorrow.

 

cheers!

[Steelcat]

I left plenty of bass for you to enjoy For me, yesterday slow presentation works for me. Maybe the situation will be changed today. If you are fishing with a buddy, one of you should stick on slow presentation and the other go for spinner or other fast presentation Good luck today

[Mike the Pike]

18 bass can't complain about that.Great pics .MTP

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Sounds like a great day to me!!!I see the crappie are still around. Gonna give rice a try soon!!!

Want to try my first crappie fish fry!

[Smokey]

Great report Steel. it must have been a busy day on the lake being opener. Thanks for the report.

[fishboy]

nice report-that chilly that the gloves were on?

[Steelcat]

HAHA na, it's just that my mom was constantly complaining about my dad's hands getting darker and darker coz of the sun tan, that's why he put on a glove