Quinte Fishing

Local trout fisherman lose out! Lower Trent and the Village of Grafton gave 3 Lake Ontario public access points to private landowners effectively closing out the opportunity to fish at the mouth of one of the best trout and salmon shore fishing locations on the lake. Hortop Public Safety Lands (Barnham Creek) are no longer accessible on the path east of the creek. Such a shame it was a great place to fish, take children to watch the salmon or just walk.

Were they friends of Doug?

Chuckle, I'm not sure but it was an interesting situation. Lower Trent was deeded the shore line in front of the lake frontage lots and access points by the developer in 1981 with the express direction that the public have access to Lake Ontario. When Lake Ontario levels rose homeowners shorelines starting eroding. They could not protect their shoreline because they never owned it. So Lower Trent and the Grafton council decided to extend each lot (for a dollar) and do away with the public access points citing it a hazard. It amounted to 9 acres of frontage.