Quinte Fishing

Going to give tomorrow a try. The excellent reports you guys have been putting up tells me I better get down there and give it a go. Bringing a friend down that has never caught an eye of any size so I am hoping I can get him into one or two. Weatherman is calling for a slight NW wind so it beats an easterly. A month ago I was down and there was good water to put in at Deseronto and I flew down the reach, how are the water levels? Is there another launch you would recommend? I here some guys talk of Picton launch but I am not familiar with where that is and is it not about the same cruise as coming from Deseronto onto the fish at the ferry?Any input would be appreciated. I am hauling a 17" Princecraft Tourney series with a 90 and do not have 4x4 to pull out of difficult ramps.

There are five launch ramps in the area you can use. All are useable now, but some are most emphatically better than the others. It is worthwhile keeping these in mind, because as the ice closes in and the fishing gets better, some of these ramps will be iced shut.

But man, if you can get into the water when there's ice around, the fishing can be killer!

Deseronto is way too far away. Sheesh.

From west [Picton] heading eastwards towards the ferry:

1. Picton Bay. The launch ramp is in behind The Tip of the Bay motel. It's a fairly steep ramp, and in wintery or icy conditions you should bring sand and salt. It's pretty much free- there might be a "donation box" if you're feeling philanthropic. Back in the olden days, when we fished in Picton Bay, this was the favourite. Nowadays it's a fur piece from the better fishing.

2. McFarland's Conservation Area - about halfway from Picton to Glenora. Steep and bumpy ramp but useable when Picton has iced up.

3. Glenora Marina - kind of a crappy and bumpy little ramp, but sometimes it is the only one available during ice conditions. He'll charge you five bucks, and haul you out with his 4x4 ATV when you can't get out yourself, which happened once to us. It's a half-hour quicker to get in the water here, than to take the ferry across to #4.

Incidentally, he's a fine mechanic, and got our outboard motor running better than it had ever run since we bought the boat! If you need repairs in the area, this is your dude.

4. Glenora Ferry - East Side - probably the best bet these days. East side of the ferry, and it's free.

5. Adolphustown Park - about two or three miles east of the Ferry, it's either currently or formerly a St. Lawrence Parks Commission park, and so far as I am aware, it's free as well. The ramp is OK as I recall, and we used it for our late-season fishing between Christmas and New Year's last year, though we had to do the icebreaker thing for a quarter-mile.

Hmm. This seems like useful info. Think I'll copy and paste it into my other post there.

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