Quinte Fishing

Nice fish Martycoo!! Our trip up from Syracuse for the 11th & 12th was GREAT. Can't thank Rocky Mt. Man for responding to me and hooking us up with guide Rick Sommerville( aka Hardwater Walleye), you were right "he is the best guide around". We met @ Skevy's bait at 6am.- thanks for everything Ron, your knowledge and quality supplies are always appreciated, hope you enjoyed the 4lb.venison sausage stick we brought up- and headed to private access onto Big Bay. There was 3 of us from Syr. and we put 33 fish on the ice the first day! Put back all but 4- 3 eaters and one to mount. There was 10" of solid ice and the weather was perfect. We started off hooking up with good fish right away (7:30am), but lost the first 7 fish. I lost 5 of em! The treble hooks we were using were too small and Rick super sized them to 1/0's! Along with some longer, stiffer action rods, that did the trick! We started getting more solid hook-ups and landing the fish. Brian caught several in the 5lb. range that a.m. and I caught several 20", while John picked up a couple of 6lbs. Rick lost a 12lb(ish) at the hole and we knew he had us in a grest area. We caught 6 nice fish- 1 was a 9lber- at 12:30 and then it slowed down till 3p.m. Brian had the a.m summed up by saying "I have never put so many 5 lbers back down the hole in my life"! We had a riot! At 4:30 Rick landed a beautiful 10lber and brought it over to Brain's trap. I came over to get a picture of him with it and he just wanted to dunk it in Brian's hole to keep the fish's eyes from freezing and it thrashed and took off !! The one that got away!Brian's Vexilar and line were still in the hole to get all tangled up- now that was funny. A several more caught (and lost) fish and I finally hooked up with a 10+ lber. I kept that one to get mounted- I know there are plenty bigger moutable fish in Quinte, that was my first and I had to.
The next day we were only fishing till 12:30 before leaving. We landed another 6 that a.m. Rick's friend came out with us and he landed two nice 11lbers as well. What a weekend of fishing on Quinte! Along with the walleye we also caught 4 northerns- 20"-30"ers and dozens of perch. Most of the fish were caught on Sidewinders- chrome or copper with green or orange tape- or Williams whitefish, or Hopkins. All 1/2oz. - 1oz with larger hooks substituted. I'll attempt to add pics to this, and if I have problems, I'll pass them on to Dan to do. Thanks for everyones input from this board, and especially Rick's expert services. If anyone wants to get a hold of him, p.m me and I'll get you in touch with him. Book him now for next year! He's more than worth the experience!!!!