Quinte Fishing

Hello folk,

My buddy and I are from Ottawa and often head to lake Ontario during the summer to fish some salmon and steelhead. We have heard on many occasions that we should visit the Bath/Amherst area during April to fish some big lake trout so we gave it a shot;
- We fished from 6h30am to 7h00pm on April 14th
- We fished from 6h00am to 3h00pm on April 15th
- We fished from 6h30am to 3h00pm on April 29th

To resume, we spent over 30 hours trolling around the Amherst island; Lower gap, Upper gap, The big bar and many other areas.

We fished anywhere from 10-20 feet of water up to 150-200 feet of water but mainly stayed around the 60 feet with down rigger balls around the 30 feet deep. We also attempted with planner boards on each side and varied our speed from 1.5Mph up to 3Mph but mainly stayed around the 2-2.5Mph.

Our lures consisted of so much, but mainly a combination of; Rac spoon, Mooselook, Williams, Syclops, Rapala and Spinners... Unfortunately NOTHING worked, not even 1 bite in 30 hours.

We fish lake trout every year and catch many of them... this was our first experience at going big on lake Ontario and we are both quite disappointing by our first 3 full day on the lake.

I attached a map of approximately the area's we attempted.

What are we doing wrong???

I would say you did nothing wrong

My program has been 2-2.2mph and only consistent depth pattern was 45-60 fow with riggers 2-10 feet off bottom. I use spoons in purples and gold/silvers.

I think it's been a very odd spring. Past years I fish 20-40fow all April and slam them but this year I caught zero in less than 40 fow.

You fished a lot of the same areas I fish and at the same times also.


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