Quinte Fishing

Just got back from a three day trip to Quinte. Fishing was the best we've had since '96. I had Terry, his wife and their 3 kids along. Terry got 27 walleye, I got 15, Jeff (he's 5) got 3 plus a couple big sheephead. Eric (3 years) got a couple nice sheephead too. Most of the walleye were 12" - 17", the biggest was 21". I got the big one on a blue/silver thunderstic. All but 1 of the rest came on worm harnesses, with chart being the best colour. We also must have caught 300+ perch and used up at least 15 doz. worms. All of our fish were caught along the North shore, 11' - 17' deep, between the mouth of the Napanee River and the big bridge at Telegraph narrows. Speed was 1.3 -1.8mph.

Of the 45 walleye we caught, we kept only 6, all around 15".

There must have been one heck of a spawn a couple years back to account for all these fish. They say that's how the great fishing at Quinte got it's start back in '78 & '79. Looks like it may just be on it's way back up again.

Good Luck,
Linz

This has been a great year so far, when was the last time you could catch so many eyes at this time of the year? I go out on the water waiting to get skunked or only catch a straggler but it isn't happening. The pessimist is turning into an optimist.