Quinte Fishing

First, a huge thanks to all of you great fishermen who regularly post on this board. Your stories tactics and information make my trips to Quinte productive and fun. I wish I could get out as often as you guys seem too. I usually only get to fish Quinte 2 or 3 times per year, but I read the posts almost every day.

My buddy “Bugnethead” and I had a chance to travel the 5 hours to Quinte on Friday Oct 22. We fished on Saturday and left Sunday morning. We concentrated primarily on the west side of the Glenora Ferry. We marked large fish varying from about 30 feet down to almost 55 feet down, suspended over 50 feet to 75 feet of water. We also marked waves of baitfish in the area. The area off Glen Island and around the red buoy and towards the ferry terminal on west side usually had a large, moving, concentration of fish, but they were marked all though the rest of the area also.

We trolled Mann’s on long flatlines (220 feet out for 30 feet down on 15lb Power pro) without boards. The results were several walleye under 5 lbs, and 7.5 lb, 8.0lb, 8.5 lbs, and 9.3 lbs. We never cracked double digits but were very pleased with the fish we caught. All were catch and release and most were from near red buoy. All in all not bad for the short time we were out. We tried Dr Death, Perch and Blue/silver but all fish were caught on silver/black.

While trolling around we realized that we really needed to be getting the Manns down 10-15 feet more into the 40-55 foot zone where we marked more of the large fish but unfortunately we didn’t have any weights on board. While ashore we ran into some guys from Ottawa/Montreal who were adding snap weights to their lines (1 ½ oz) and they were reportedly hitting more and bigger fish. I guess we’ll try that next time.

Unlikely I will get back until spring so keep posting boys so I can day dream at work. Thanks

Walleye4me

All those fish that you see really deep. The majority are NOT walleye.

Greta trip walleye4me,

We were marking tonnes at the 50 ft level as well last weekend. We figured they were Sheepsheads, only because that's all we pulled from that depth. When we started coming up into the 20-30 ft range, voila! Walleye, in good numbers too!

Glad to see you had a good trip!

Thanks for the report

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