Quinte Fishing

As i posted, three of us headed out to Bay of Quinte yesterday. The weather called for 10 km winds, and 30% pop. Are they ever right?

We left after my radio show, around 3am Wednesday morning. It was a light drizzle as we left, but it started coming down hard near Toronto. Tons of lightning. The most i've ever seen actually.

Around Whitby, it starting raining so hard we had to pull off the highway. Its amazing how transport trucks can still drive 110 km in those conditions!

Made it to the Belleville launch around 6:30...It was still raining...

Talked to someone who was standing out of the rain, who had a sweet 200 hp nitro parked on his trailer. Starting talking, found out he was prefishing a big bass tournament all this week, and was doing quite well...

He said it was supposed to rain off and on all day, but that the fishing was good the day before. He gave us some quick pointers, typical texas bassin'. He said don’t fish water deeper than three feet, and hit the slop with top water rats, hard. Also mentioned some close spots to start, as we weren't running anywhere in the pouring rain.

Our spirits weren't dampened in the slightest! The Green Bomber, my brother, Mark, and myself headed out, across the water, to the first bay in sight. The water was already rough at 7 am, white caps starting. So much for the 10 km winds!

Tossing spinnerbaits and jointed rapala's we found fish just about immediately. We caught fish as it rained...until 11 am when the skies opened. The sun came out, and the clouds disappeared, all within 5 minutes. It was like a gift from above. We dried out all our drenched clothes, and continued to catch fish.

The white spinnerbait with a white gambler trailer seemed to be the ticket. By noon we had a number of bass and pike in the boat.

Around 1, the skies darkened again, and it started to rain. We decided to head for lunch, and went to Denny's. After a major pig out, we were back on the water by three.

When we left Denny's it was just sprinkling rain, but by the time we launched, it was down pouring again. Just making sure everything we managed to dry before in the sun, and then in Denny's, was thoroughly soaked.

Of course the rain didn't bother us, especially with close to 30-degree temps. The water was 70 degrees when we got there, but by 3 pm, when we were back on the water, it had climbed to 74.

Also the wind had died right down, and the white caps that we were facing in the morning, had disappeared. Well, with the wind change and pressure drop, the fish started going nuts. I caught four bass in four casts, and witnessed about a dozen big pike on a feeding frenzy. First you'd see a perch run to the surface, then the flash of a big pike chasing it! It was really neat to see.

From 3 to 4pm we experienced the best fishing in a long time....Lots of big bass and quality pike. We couldn't catch of any of the monster pike, they seemed more interested in the perch schools they had cornered.

Around 4 the frenzy kinda died down, but we still got constant luck until 8 when we decided to leave. All in all we put over 30 fish in the boat, including eight different species of fish. Smallies, Large Mouth, Pike, Walleye, Sheephead, Burbot?, Crappie, and Perch.

All we really did was fish the slop, or the first area of deeper water, near the slop (usually 5-7 feet). We caught fish on jointed rap’s, spinner baits, tube jigs, top water plugs, and even a walleye on the knockoff Daredevil (compact?).

I'd just like to thank the Fishing World guys for putting us on a certain spot that produced most of our fish...

Here's some random pics of the fish we caught. Notice the weather condition changes. We had it all!

What kind of fish is the 5th one from the bottom? Burbot? Are these fish edible? Are they plentiful in the BoQ? Just curious.