Quinte Fishing

Anyone fishing Loughborough lately? Thinking of heading out on Wednesday anyone
fishing there and what are the ice conditions?
Thanks

west end is where the action is, off Sydenham road in 70/80 feet of water. Lots of ice 15/20 inches good access and parking

Any problems with slush and walking?
Thanks again

no slush.... hard surface maybe if it doesn`t snow, ice cleats would help

Was out for couple hrs yesterday. Drove the truck out. Easily 20" off Sydenham end. Very slow bite. Couple lookers was it! No problem walking either. Granular crust on the surface.

I found it to be a very slow winter all around at Loughborough. Both off of Sydneham and closer to the narrows. The best year I had was two years ago when we were constantly marking smelt on bottom in the far West end even catching a few, this year we weren't marking any at all it seemed. who knows maybe i just picked the wrong days! I did miss something big jigging my bait at 20 ft over 60 FOW just to switch it up. would have liked to net that baby!

About 4 yrs ago the stocking on Lobo went from about 40k fish a year to 8k every second year. This was to reduce the numbers to have a more healthy baitfish and therefore laker population. So basically less fish but bigger, no more lakers that had the body of eels. Smart decision in the long run but I think but we are seeing the effects of it now, there are some slow days out there for sure but everything goes in cycles. Less people will fish it next year because of how slow it has been which will help the stocks; they will recover and fishing will improve etc etc.

No lakers were stocked in 2011 because the lake trout eggs died in shipment in 2009. 8000 fish were stocked in 2012 and 15,000 stocked in 2013 so in a couple years things could start to improve again. Fish are looking pretty healthy and fishing seemed better earlier in the winter.