What a weekend fishing the FLW Canada event on Rice Lake. Me and Dan put in a lot of time previous to the tournament and really wanted to make the top ten finish. Of course cashing a good cheque would be nice, but really all we wanted, was to make the top I0 cut to punch a ticket to the FLW Canada championship on Big Rideau. Smallies is what wins on Rice 90% of the time, so thats what we needed to do to have a good chance at making the top I0, or maybe even having a chance at winning $I6,000. Myself or Danny have never really found some good smallies on the lake, so we had some work to do.. We spent about a week of pre fishing, and found one area on the lake we knew had some good ones around. Going into day one, we were pretty pumped, but were hoping to get a good limit to stay in it for day 2. Its a 2 day event and you gotta catch em good both days. We ran 6 spots on day one but only 2 of them produced our I8.I0 pound bag. We ended up scrapping all of our 6 spots, but 2 of them, and ended up pounding the 2 spots back and fourth on day 2. Right when we caught our I8 pounds on day one, we left those 2 spots for day 2. We figured if we left the rest of the fish, without risking to try and catch 20 pounds and fish the spot out, that if we got I8 a day we would make the cut. On day 2 we rolled up to our first spot and got 3 quick fish in the boat. a 31/2, a 4, and a 2 pounder. the rest of the day was a grind, but we stuck on those 2 spots all day long, fished slow, and ended up culling a couple times throughout the day, getting another I8 pound bag in the boat. We ended up finishing top ten, in 7th spot. We are headed to Big Rideau for the FLW Canada championship!!! Wooooooooooop, Man I love fishing
