Hey guys and gals I'm in the market for a new fishing destination and was hoping I could find some help here. Let me give you a little background...
As a kid the first 15 years of my life we took a yearly fishing trip to rice lake, Ontario Canada ( about 2 hrs north of toronto) I have many great memory's at the same cabins and same spots every year, the panfish were plentiful, and the other species of fish were sometimes hard to find but eventually you could get a few in the boat to feel satisfied without a whole lot of effort, unfortunately when the change came with the passports my family of 5 no longer could afford going on top of my two older sibling being into other things.
Fast forward 10 years which will bring us to last year 2015, after many years of my brother and I saying we would like to go back, one of us took the plunge and made a reservation and the other followed suit, so in the second week of august we embarked back to rice lake and southview cottages like we did in the past, to be totally honest the amenitys were exactly the way we remember it as kids... unfortunate for us the fishing was not, the once plentiful panfish were under sized, and during certain parts of the day would turn off completly ( we never had to fight to find panfish before ) the bass were there and they were plentiful and we had a couple that were maybe in the high 2lbs range but nothing to write home about, and the walleye were non existent... out of the crew of 9 of us we got 1 keeper walleye... the problem that seemed to be is that when the passport ordeal took place it really hurt these resorts, the people they relied on from the states no longer were coming and really still arnt, they started tailoring their business to the Toronto crowed and the lake appears to have gotten alot of weekend traffic and has much fishing pressure