Quinte Fishing

Well, the opening weekend rolled around and Laker John, SuperBert and myself arrived at Bayview Resort in midafternoon on Friday. Loaded the boat with gas (Yikes- it's a tad expensive- those rotten oil companys )

Met all the campers and got to bed early as the 0500 alarm comes early.

Up before dawn and left the dock at 0615 and headed to the fishing grounds. Trolled over the area with 6 rods out and with about 7 other boats. Never saw a NET. I would bet we didn't mark 20 fish in 6 hours. Guess they weren't there.

Trolled the south side and over on the north side - water temperature difference was 8degs F, (South side 52.8 F and the north was 44.7).

With the North-east howling and makes the waves larger by the minute, we headed home to wait until the winds calmed down- FAT CHANCE Back to Bayview after 7 hours fishing with nothing to show in the livewell.

Took a chance on Saturday evening and tried to troll near Ram Is, wind blew us to the old Church like a speed boat, it took over 165feet of line to touch the bottom. TOO FAST......

Spirits were still high for Sunday and although we left at 0700 heading to Desronto, when we rounded the Shermans Pt Light house, the North-east winds were still howling right down Long Reach. Our discrection was to troll down wind and we marked some fish as we trolled to the cement plant.

We were changing lures and heights and doing all the things trying to find fish. Laker John decided that his favourite lure was due and flat-lined an Alpena Diamond and a snap weight about 180' back. As we approached the cement plant the flat-line went off. SuperBert was on deck and took the rod and had a nice fight and as the fish approached the boat, John thought it was a laker, but as the fish flipped into the net, we saw a RAINBOW TROUT - 7.25 lb.

My 86 year old Dad had landed his FIRST Rainbow Trout of his life - what a beauty.




Spirits were revived and our enthusiasm restored - we continued the area and made our way over to Buoy Q4 and trolled back past Q6 and through Mallory Bay. Marked More bait fish there than any other place we had been.

Made our way back to Bayview at 1500 as we had been out for 8 hours and one fish.

People were catching fish in Hay Bay and one angler(who shall go name-less) was the fortunate catcher of a tagged fish valued at $1000.00.

OH Yes, Guess you have a Kiwanis Ticket to get the prize D'OHHHHHHH.

We had a good weekend, fish-less as it may have been, but just when you think you got this fishing thing down pat - the fish will bring you to your knees just as fast.

Anyhow, that's our weekend and we're looking forward to 2008, like the Dodgers used to say "Wait til next year"

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David Delcloo aka Superdad
(Retired)

Kingston

Same luck here Superdad. 0 walleye for the weekend, fished the same spots as you. I heard it was good out front of Pickerel Park, that's it. Very limited Catches in other areas.

We did manage a whole mess of Pike and a 5lb bass, returned immediately.

Better luck next time. Nice Rainbow for your Dad

Dave

Damn!



SWEET JOB!

Nice bow Superdad.

Had a tough weekend as well. 1 walleye in our boat and 5 in the other one. Our fish was caught in the mouth of the Napanee River. The other 5 in Telegraph narrows.

Manage a nice sheepshead (7 lbs) and a Pike (8 lbs).

Mike

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Wish I wasn't here...Rather be fishing if you know what I mean

nice report as always
can't imagine the price of gas being as high as it is
but ifn ya wanna play we gonna hafta pay
nice one to your dad on the beauty trout
looking to be up the 20th
thanks for sharing
blue

Hey Dave,
Beauty Bow. Thanks for the row, we managed an entire margarine container full. Nice prize vs some lame old $1,000 cheque.
We managed 16 walleye and 3, 5-7 lb pike in front of Bayview. Landed a 7lbs and 12 lb sheephead, wow what a fight. Dad caught some of everything, walleye, 2 pike, the big sheep head, bass and of course perch.
We found a slow drift with the wind was the ticket or a challenging slow troll against the wind. With the winds we found most fish were caught while slowly letting line out and working the bottom with the green worm harnesses. Often the fish were hooked after letting out 150-225 feet of line. Again letting line out seemed the only way to slow the presentation down. We released 5 walleye under 16 inches and most of the others were 21-24inches and nice and thick.
Cheers Glenn

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Hawghunter

Great report Superdad and what a amazing Rainbow. Sounds like it was a tough weekend for most as the winds really made it difficult to control the boat and speed.

Fishing on Sunday we landed 18 walleye with a 7lb being the largest. All fish came off of spinners with crawlers while trolling heavy 3 to 6oz bottom bouncers at 1.7 mph. Monday was great with all the boats gone the fish came up off bottom and we went 28 for 36 on spinners 10 feet down over 26 feet of water. The largest on Monday was 31" 9.8lb hawg, with many fish in the 5 to 7 lb range. All the fish on Monday came off in-line boards. With the water at 58 F I was trolling at 1.7 to 2.2mph.

Should be out on Quinte again this week...

-sheldon

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Fish On...
Sheldon Hatch
NPAA 928

Sheldon,
Those are some nice numbers... way to go!

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Dan Elliot - A bad day on Quinte is better than a good day at work !!!
http://www.quintefishing.com

Great job on the trout Superdad!!

We'd had a nice brown caught one year. It aint just about the walleye..we did manage a few nice ones, enough to stink up the pan

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Just one more cast.....yeah right...makes me wish I was there right now.

nice catch!