Quinte Fishing

Anyone been out on Loughborough yet? If so, any advice on where to go or what they are being caught on would be great. Thanks

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Was out on Monday, my buddy and I iced 11. 4 on white tubes and the rest on shiners. We were in 80 fow.

Where does everyone fish for lakers at the deep end? I would be walking out so any advice on a general area and ice conditions would be much appreciated.

Ice is good for quads and sleds, no trucks yet!!!! I fish the west end. Find a spot and start drilling... The lakers move around a lot and any place is as good as another. Having a flasher helps quite a bit.

Whats a typical lure selection on loughborough and tipped with what?

jig head, white worm, works well. no live bait on it. just remember limit is only 2, i have heard of guys getting caught with more, in the last couple weeks.

Does anyone know what the ice is like at the sydenham rd launch?

We have been using white tube jigs and shiners just on a hook.

You guys are bang on abut the plastic worms and tubes working well for the trout. There is however an alarming trend that is being noticed, both locally and across the trout range. Trout are being caught with large a mounts of plastic baits in their stomach. About two years ago one of the residents of Loughborough that I fish with started telling me that most of the trout they were catching were stufffed full of plastic worms. Some of these fish did not look like the typical stocky thick lakers usually caught. These fish looked lean and half starved.

Now there is an article in Ontario Out of Doors magazine indicating this is a widespread problem. They indicate that the issue occurs in lakes that have both trout and bass in them, and they think most of the worms are comming from the bass anglers in the summer. Then when the water cools of in the fall/winter and the trout can go shallower they eat the plastics off the bottom. Picture in the article shows about 25 plastics that came out of one trout's stomach. We haven't seen that many, but have seen them with 6-10 baits in them.

The things OOO suggest that we can do to help the problem are:

#1 Do not discard used plastics in the water. Take them home and put them in the trash.
#2 Use a dab of superglue to adhere plastics to hook/jig, to prevent loss.
#3 Use biodegradeable plastics if possible.

I would be interested in knowing if anybody else has seen this issue with trout locally. Please pass the word and raise awareness of the issue. This could be very detrimental to stocking programs, and changing our practices around the use of plastics could be the easiest and most effective thing the average angler can do to help our stocking programs succeed.

Thanks and tight lines.
Bruce

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yea two years ago, that was common, havent seen any this year, with that problem,
but with a two fish limit, its hard to tell... we have caught some in the past with hot dogs in them.

I cleaned one this year that had a 10 inch rubber worm in it.....the rubber was swollen and looked gross.....before i cleaned it i noticed the fish was much darker than the others i caught... with the amount of bass fishing in loughborough...there must be a pile of rubber in there.

Funny, I caught a laker in Loughborough this October about 2ft from the surface and it did not look healthy. Although it was a good length the belly was small for the size. We cooked it up and threw it away shortly after because it was one of the worst tasting fish ever.

Do they not keep laker's open all season at Loughborough due to the limited amount of food in the lake?

no, i was told it was to keep pochers of other lakes.
they are still stocking it hard. i mean how many people take more then 2 even from loughborough ? i dont, but every one knows whats going on, mnr is often out there checking for a reason, i mean 2 with a sport licence, compared to 4 walleye on the bay, isnt a hole lot of fish. and i mean your going to tell me the guys fishing 3 inch cranks in the spring are fishing for crappie, perch, and pike working shore line, not bass.
i hear about a ton of guys talking about ice fishing for bass.. umm your not allowed too, wether you keep them or not. we dont have a live realease season for bass..

I'm not going to say every trout I've cleaned out of loughby has had rubber in it, but a GOOD majority have.

Couple things as I was in touch with the MNR near the end of last winter.

They stopped stocking loughborough with trout either 2 years ago or it might have been even 3. I got the impression that they are not happy with the trout that are in the lake and the reason it was opened year round was to fish it out.

Also heard rumblings of the possibility of walleye introduced in the near future?

The trout in Loughborough are very long and skinny forsure, IMO not the greatest tasting fish, we starting letting alot of them go.