Quinte Fishing

While out prefishing in preparation for the QFS walleye tournament I was working weedlines with crankbait when my rod was just about ripped from my hand. Drag starts screaming and I say"Must be a big Pike" Well i am fighting and fighting but not making much head way and infact am starting to lose ground and am thinking now this must be one really really big pike. Put my foot on the trolling motor to make up ground and am finally making some head way when i see a really wide and long flash in the water which we all know means drum. Once we got it in the boat i pulled out the scales and it weighs 17lbs! Not as big as Marty's but boy what a tank of a fish. Nothing you can do to stop these things just hold on and wait to tire it out. The next picture is of a 5.4lb eye that cymbals hit. It was caught about high noon in 6ft of water on a crankbait

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Dan Elliot - A bad day on Quinte is better than a good day at work !!!
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Wow what a drum! Never caught one with a crank always a worm/spinner.

Both nice fish - The drums test the meddle of a fisherman, if can you can land one like that, you should be able to land anything.

Weedlines - eh!!!

Cheers

David aka Superdad

Hey Dan,

That's hilarious, I also hit one (about 15lbs) pre-fishing on a crank, for the first 10 sec I thought it was a 15lb EYE, then reality set in.....almost lost the rod. LOL

Nice fish.

Cheers, Hodgey...

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Gary Hodge
NPAA 518

Those fish certainly liven up the day when fishing is slow... What is not fun tho when you hook into one on tournament day and it comes 85 percent of way to the boat like a walleye ...really gets the old ticker working

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Beauty!

Wow beauty fish, I hit one on a jerk bait the other day as well, maybe 8-10lbs.
Man the sheep head are big on Quinte!!!

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O2BFSHIN

Some of the biggest one's in this country Teppy!

Crazy how big the pooper hole is, when they get big!!! The big one I caught took one of my fall cranks, straightened 6 of 9 barbs and made them look like pins.... had 2 trebles in deep and there was no way it was going to release, I tried twice and it just kept rolling over, tired and the hooks ripped part of its gill. Instead of just dumping it we checked the record and was suprised it was only 20.6 lbs.... and that fish weighed 23lbs when we weighed it the first time but it took a day to find a certified scale, so I lost a bit of water and weight and 21.59 lbs still astounds me that a drum can get that big and theres 25-30 lbers out there, Lake Ontario somewhere and the odd one in the Bay!!!