Quinte Fishing

After about eight years away from the Belleville area, my family and I have moved back. I can stop lurking and may actually have something to contribute to this fine site. I used to have pretty decent success in the winter at Point Anne west years ago and understand it should still be a good place for walleye, but my question is this-where is a good location for a consistent perch bite? I have never targetted them on the Bay and frankly used to consider them a nuisance bait-stealer fish when fishing for walleyes. My opinion changed when we moved to Keswick and started to ice fish on Cook's Bay. My son is 4 and a half and loves fishing with me but needs some regular action to keep him interested. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Luck favours the prepared.

I hope someone soon answers this, as it is an easy bill to fill, without giving away ones fishing "secrets". I am too far away to consider anything I would give as relevant to Belleville.

Give this gentleman some help please, so that he can take his son or even his friends out to catch some yellow perch. It is a consistent bite, that can get better if one targets them specifically. (eg. shallow weedy bays, etc.).

Donald Stokes

I have been scoring 8-10 perch off of Bakelite Point, I also found good schools out by Big Island.... bit of a walk for a young lad tho..... but Serious come out off Herchimer boat launch and head down the cleared path.... that area seems to be one of the safer and more convient areas to walk to and get a few yellow bellys! Heres the average size.

GL hope I could help!
Mike

Wasnt there a report not to eat any perch or bullheads of any size from Bay of Quinte??

I fish off Big Island and we have pretty steady perch action all day.We caught 8 perch in the 10-12 inch range last weekend and propably threw 20 back.Fish with small spoons tipped with small minnows or minnow heads,small jigging rapalas with a minnow head on the bottom treble or a jig head and minnow with a stinger.Good luck.The big ones are just getting going.The best time of the year for big perch is March.

Hope this helps.

That was during the hot days of the summer..... I ate 8-10 last night and MMMMMMM! I once knew a guy that SWALLOWED A PERCH....... AND I GUESS HE WILL DIE! LMAO!
Mike

im thinking most any place on the bay a bit closer to shore is a safe bet to find perch. the seem to run in sizes so you just never know........ and never count out a nice pike for the young lad . they do seem to go in after the smaller perch in 10 foot of water .... good luck and enjoy the kid. they grow up fast!

I HAVE INFO. ON GREAT OPEN WATER FISHING,,DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY GOOD SPOTS ON THE ICE,I WOULD BE HAPPY TO PASS IT ON,,YOUR SON WOULD HAVE A BLAST!!

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DON'T IT ALWAYS SEAM AS THOUGH,,YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT TELL IT'S GONE?

I myself haven't targetted perch since the second day that the bay had frozen over. And that was only because I could only find perch where I was fishing as I didn't want to venture out too far. At that time, they were out in front of Herchimer as mentioned. They were all of decent size and there seemed to be lots of them. I also caught my only pike of the season there. (Probably feeding on perch.) I would try there. I have heard that they are getting jumbos in Trenton. I believe it is in the mouth of the river, but don't quote me on that. Good luck!

P.S. Get him on a good school of Walters and he would find it interesting... Yesterday morning was the most aggressive I have seen them yet!

The updated consumption guide that anthing_for_a _beer may have been referring to is this, taken directly from the MNR site:

The new consumption levels are as follows:
YELLOW PERCH
�� For the general population, four meals of 15-30 cm yellow perch a month. This has
been changed from eight meals a month. For fish outside this range, please see page 9
of the 2005/06 Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish.

So as long as you only eat them about once a week they have a clean bill of health - same goes for bullhead and this is for the upper Bay only (Trenton to Deseronto).

There is some massive perch why would you go to Simcoe you have jumbos and walleyes here, I've had some success catching perch in big bay too. I caught two that were my biggest perch in the same day 12 to 14 range. They hit like a small walleye I'm gonna have to fish for perch this year and plenty.

Thanks for the info.! A pic of the young lad having just landed a lunker. Sorry about the size, I'll work on the re-sizing next time!

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Luck favours the prepared.