Quinte Fishing

I have not had the chance to get out on Quinte this year, although I have been doing a lot of fishing up north for walleye, have done very well using bottom bouncers trolled very slow with a simple inflated worm on a walleye rig (18 inch line with a single hook and spinner blade, a few beads etc.). Interesting to read the various opinions on lures, the hot lips lure mentioned is one I have never had any success with, at Quinte I have done well in the past with the Smithwich Rattlin Rogue (silver), Rapala Deep Diver?, and I even have had success with an Erie Dearie with a worm on it. Th eRapala's I think have goen doen hill regarding quality, the hooks and split rings are terrible and I have broken several, the worst experience was a tail dancer I bought whren the first came out, I caught a walleye ont he seconf or third cast and lure literally fell apart in my hands after bringing the fish in, never seen anything like this happen before. Probably the best rig I have used in the past few years for walleye is an inline weight, maybe 1oz (torpedo shaped with a chain like a bath tub chain on it on one end) that I have not been able to find since I bought this one, I hook it on to a snap swivel and then put about 5-6 feet of line out behind it and troll slowly with a variety of the typical walleye baits, again slow is th ekey, this seems to work well and does not get hung up too much once you get a feel for the depth it is running. One final comment is that I believe that each person fishes the same bait in a slightly different way and each has different success, all of us have seen a guy at one end of a boat catching fish while the other guy using the same bait is not. What I have learned from thsi and others comments is keeping changing it up and do not get stuck on one technique.

Pugsli