Great fishing and boating with Rice Lake right at your doorstep.

Located in the heart of southern Ontario's popular Kawartha Lakes, Rice Lake is shallow, fertile and packed full of weeds. And it's one of the best spots to reel in a trophy. Not numbers of bass, perhaps, but dream-size bronzebacks.
Indeed, five-fish, 20-pound creels win tournaments on Rice. Zebra mussels are one reason. They are rapidly changing Rice Lake's water quality and transparency, to the point where the clear-water-loving smallmouth may soon overtake their scummy-water-loving bigmouth brothers. Rice Lake smallmouth are also more weed-oriented than their counterparts in most other lakes. That is why Rice veterans target deep weed edges and open areas between weed clumps. They pick the vegetation apart with tube jigs and similar slow-moving, finesse presentations.
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