Quinte Fishing

Bigger, mature Salmon may finally have arrived for their short migration trip past our area:
From east edge of Petre Point to west edge of Prince Edward Point (point closest to False Ducks).
This won’t last more than a few weeks before they are gone. Saw 2 other boats trolling, hopefully they will write a report.
(Side note: Been on the American side, off Stony Pt. a few times lately. As many as 25 boats all in same area. Remarkably courteous, and friendly, but no one had planner boards out as sometimes only 100-200 ft off each other, sometimes 3 wide crossing each other.)

Yesterday, caught a few, missed a few, but lots of action, happy friends. Largest was 17 lbs, 38 inches.
Location and pattern: 6:30 am to noon. Dipsy’s with spoons, and riggers meat on flasher flies. Green anything seemed best. In Shipping Channel or 1-2 kms on offshore side of it, in 120-150 FOW. Hitting 70-80 ft. down.
Fishhawk probe was repeatedly showing deep current travelling 1 -1.5 kph heading westward (which is completely opposite of what you would expect for the Lake to drain towards St. Lawrence River),
but there was big weather the day before, which may have pushed a lot of water into East Basin, and it had to drain back into centre of Lake Ontario).
We were trying to keep probe at 4-4.5 kms/hr., and temps below 50-55F. (This was hard to do with Lake stirred up). So, boat speeds ranged from 3.5 – 5.5 kph., depending on direction.

Hope to read reports of big salmon around Wellington or Scotch Bonnet, as a trip there would be fun, but would like it to be productive.

We've been at the bonnet and salmon point recently. The salmon fishing has been pretty consistent for us. We've had most luck in 130 fow and down between 50-70 ft.
I'd like to say we found a pattern but they were taken equally on both dipseys and riggers. Meat, flies and clean spoons in green and blue have taken the most. Speeds were mostly between 2.2 and 2.6 mph.
Nothing really big for us either, but pretty good numbers.

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HUNT, FISH and RIDE

Great news. Hope to get there soon.

Thanks for the follow up. Good luck.

We fished in the junior angler day for the gosd.
Little guy brought 10 into the boat. Biggest was 16.8


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Well done, looks like he had a great time!

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HUNT, FISH and RIDE

Thanks for the report RC36 and nice fish and great picture westlakecharlie!

Has anyone used the Prince Edward Point launch this year? Some years you can get in and out of there, other years... not so much.

Hoping to maybe get out Sunday morning.

Thanks!

We've been doing pretty decent off salmon point & Petre this month. Mix of spoons & flies, not much meat bite over here. Been hitting a whole lot more off the cheaters than I'd normally expect, for some reason a lot of these fish have been hitting up in that warmer top water ~40ish. I think they're just messing with us. Mostly fishing 60/80 over 130. Last week and a bit they've been taking the dark spoons. Carbons, Cop Cars, even had to toss in some vintage Nasty Boys to fill out the spread. 50/50 rigger/dipsy bites. Very little on the long steel.

Fleas out this way have been pretty bad. 100lb braid rods are pushing through.

Been out to the Bonnet a few times, but not sure we're getting more total fish out that way. And with some days looking like the 401 with the traffic there, we've been happy to play solo to the east. It's nice having the lake to yourself over here. No money fish in the boat, but we're lookin' & hookin'.

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Unit Leader - Wellington Rescue

Was in my usual lane yesterday. A little wavier than Windfinder had predicted, was rolling around with south waves on the side much of the time.

Followed the shipping channel 5 to 10km path for 3 loops from 6:45am to 1:45pm.
110-130 FOW was best. Anything shallower than 110ft was devoid of activity...
Probably will try deeper 150+++next time.
Only saw one sailboat idle by on it's engine. Very quiet out there.

No fleas !!
Largest salmon, 31 inches. And enthusiastic laker, must have been hanging out with his salmon buddies, cause he hit my probe side rigger at 80ft with meat, over 130 FOW. Let it go quickly.

Didn't see many bait balls, but did mark some big fish.
Pretty slow day overall.
It calmed down a little bit to under 2 foot waves for long run back to Kingston.
Still beats working LOL. (recently retired)