Quinte Fishing

I decided to make the run from Collins Bay this morning given great weather conditions and sorry state of the Quinte boat ramps. I felt a bit like I was playing Frogger on the way over avoiding all of the logs and other debris in the North Channel. Started trolling at Thompson Point and picked up a small 13 incher relatively quickly crossing toward Shermans. I made my way into Hay Bay and up towards Ram Island catching several perch and a couple more 13-14 inch walleye. There were at least 15 boats in the stretch just south of Ram, so I kept going past it. After catching nothing but perch in a half hour north of the island I decided to go back to the south side. Amazingly, there were only two boats there now! I fished a couple hours working back towards Thompson, and ended up with over twenty walleye landed. Most were in the 12-14 inch range, but three were in the 17 inch range, kept for the freezer. Had a nice chat with a couple OPP officers just as I was packing up to head back, and was amused to see a couple Bass boats come flying out of the deeper bay after they headed in there..

Here is my question for the Pros: As I was cruising back through the North Channel there were fish rising up everywhere. They were not jumping, just porpoising the same way a rainbow trout would take a fly on the surface in a small lake. The question is, what are these fish?

Sounds like you had a good day out there. Bit of a run? Not a pro by no means lol but I seen some yesterday as well
and have seen them before towards the hydro plant. I believe they are Gar pike just cruising at the surface.