Quinte Fishing

So Im totally new to quinte my uncle bought a cottage up there and this will be my first fall fishing it.

I was wondering if anyone tried trolling larger profile baits?
Im a firm believer in big baits for musky and largemouth given certain situations I feel like the same amount of energy is expended to get a small meal as a large meal and a large meal gets a much bigger return. The gizzard shad they are chasing are fairly large profile, and a 10+ plus walleye has a big yap!

I have ran into some incidental walleye on LOTW trolling depth raiders, triple D's and even 8" jake baits, but I dont troll to often so I never really patterned eyes on big baits. my concern will be what baits run with good action at slower speeds since im usually trolling 3 to 6mph.

Anyways just wondering if anyone has any experience with larger baits! I may run a rod with a triple D or raider just to see what happens.

I've got some Manns Stretch plus 25's but haven't worked up the courage to try them.

Don't see why the bigger baits wouldn't work.

We catch them (large walleyes) on CC Shads and TDD11 Taildancers - so anything should work

David aka Superdad

we've run baits up to a manns magnum croaker ....

google it...

our best success does not come on the biggest baits....

here's a photo back from 2005 when we started running it.

that is beside an original td11.

no fish to date - but when one hits - look out!

Thats a good looking bait!
ill be experimenting a bit this weekend we will see what I turn up

we thought it would resemble the shape of a huge gizzard or small drum.

we have ran it for six years (off and on) and have yet to take a fish.

we have also run stretch 18's and stretch 30's...the 18's are a mag size bigger than the stretch 20's that are common, and the stretch 30's are also mag sizes. stretch 25's are slightly smaller. a few have been caught on the oversize manns stretch series.

I've taken a few fish on a large Barimundi Mauler a few years back

Dan

Gotta think the fish get bored watching the same reef runners, tail dancers, Manns 20's, etc, day after day. Every bait seems the same, wobbles side to side, some are bigger, some smaller, surely there is something out there that the fish will think, haven't seen that one before, maybe worth a nibble.

The only baits I could get firing last fall were reef runner 900's (almost 8" long) which were originally designed as a musky bait. they were deadly off of 4 colors.....although none of the fish were huge like you would think. you never know what will work on any given day....that's why my tackle collection has taken on a life of it's own...and why I keep coming back.

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