Quinte Fishing

First of all I'd like to say that you certainly have a great site here. Lots of info and it's nice to find that people are willing to post the details of their adventures whether they are successful or not.

One of my fishing buddies won a weekend at Cedar Point and we will be heading there this weekend. We have never fished Hay Bay before and were wondering what we should be looking for in the way of structure, (would like the prop to stay in one piece, LOL) weed lines, and baits/lures. Normally this time of year on the Kawartha lakes we fish huskies, rogues and bucket tail jigs in 5-12ft & they seem to be the ticket to a successful day for walleye. As for the pike, I’ll assume shallow or on the edges throwing spoons, spinner baits or jerk baits should work just fine. Any advice on other baits, colours, sizes, and areas to concentrate on would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Fishnsled

PS. Where is Pickerel Park in relation to Cedar Point?

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I work to fish.

They are both on the south side of Hay Bay, you will pass Pickeral PArk on your way to Cedar point, approx 1 - 1.5 miles (if that far)

Hay Bay is a whole different that the Kawartha's, It will take some real work to bang the prop.

The bottom is mostly soft and the shore drops off almost everywhere quite quickly.

Most people are fishing with spinners and worms or combination of those.

From Cedar Point you will see the 'Flats' at the east end of Hay Bay and there will be many boats there, The fishing has spotty up there ranging from good to poor, results this week indicate thata lot fo pike are being caught. These flats are from 6.5 feet to maybe 11.5 feet.

Travelling west from Cedar Point you will encounter Ram IS where Hay Bay jogs, many people fish around the green buoy, trolling or drifting.

Further west where Hay Bay meet s Long REach on the Norht shore is Shermans PT, people fish from the Red Buoy back to the top of the shoal.

Hope that helps you get orientated.

Keep your eyes peeled for a 16' Springbok with a mariner 30Hp and 'Mercury" decals on the side - Say Hi Superdad.

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David Delcloo aka Superdad
(Retired)

Kingston

If you look at the May 9 - 10 report by Walleye4me you will get some info.
We stayed at Cedar Point and caught 15 of our 20 fish across from Cedar Point where Donna said to fish. this was after travelling miles to Telegraph narrows to catch 0.

Thanks for the advice from everyone. I'll be posting my results on how the weekend went. Hey Superdad I'll be looking for ya! I'm driving a 17 foot Crestliner side console, beige and black with a 115hp Mercury.

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I work to fish.

Stayed at Donna and John's place on opening weekend, had great success on the flats with a few 5 and 6 pounders, drifting with worm harnesses was the best. See Donna for some great Dixie spinners...

Hey fishnsled.
To be succesful in Quinte you need to think a bit differently then you would in the Karawartha's. I've fished both a lot and Quinte is BIG water with very little to no structure. There is no current to speak of, no fast water, and right now very early weed growth. I have never even marked a rock! Well almost never. Most of my success in Quinte has come with wind and waves with the "Quinte drift". If it's windy even in the middle of the day you should have luck, target 12 feet and run plus or minus till you find 'em. I have had success drifting with a variety of things but mostly orange worm harnesses, green or orange Eirie Deeries,and worms. Most guys drift some sort of worm rig. Watch out for the Gobies stealing your worm out past Ram Island and in the rest of Quinte but Hay Bay seems clear of them so far. (It's muddier?) Trolling requires you to target 12 - 15 feet or so, so shad raps (silver) no 5 or 7's, tail dancers, walleye divers etc work the best. You can look around in deeper spots but personally I hate running dipsy's etc and like to feel that hit! You have some good advice from the other guys here. My advice is if it's calm go for pike or "pop", if it's windy use it to your advantage and keep moving till you find a walleye. If you find one there will be more! You should get the topo from any good boating store or the MNR. Donna and John have one near the fish cleaning hut. It's easy to get lost after dark if you don't know the area...it is BIG. Have a great time.
Walleye4me walleye4me@hotmail.com

Hey just a few more things. I made my first trip to Quinte for the opener and had a great time. We got to Pickeral park on Friday at 9:00pm. We set up camp and had a quick bite to eat and had the boat in the water for midnight. We fished till 4am with no luck. The point of this is that we went out as Quinte rookies and made our way down Hay bay towards Shermans in the dark and made our way back in one piece. We didn't have GPS, only a working compass and a little common sense. Looking on a map, you could draw a straight line along Hay bay, so it's basically one heading on a compass, and most of the water is deep enough to safely navigate. Watch out for the reeds up the bay from Ram Island, that was our only near mishap, they suddenly came out of nowhere. Luckily we were going slow. We did get a few walleye in the boat on Saturday, 1st fish 9.53lb trolling in 30 ft of water down about 12 ft at 3:00 in the afternoon. 2nd fish about 6lb in 20ft, again down about 12ft at about 7:30 in the evening. 3rd fish around 8.5-9lb again trolling in 30ft of water about 12ft down at 11:00 at night. All fish were caught on a customized taildancer. I can't tell you how it was customized, it's gonna win me the derby next year (LOL) Don't be afraid to troll the open water, these big walleye suspend in deep water chasing there dinner.