Quinte Fishing

We fished on friday night at midnight and on Sunday till about 3pm. For our efforts we came up with 2 walleyes (slots), a bunch of pike and a drum. For the most part we were casting cranks to shoreline. We did do some open water trolling but no luck.

Talking with some boats at the ramps and it seems the small fish at the river mouths were biting as lots of guys reporting plenty of fish caught in the 17"-19" range.

I wasn't able to make it down to the weigh-in show but will post results as I receive them from both the Kiwanis and HAy BAy Benefit derbies.

How did everyone else do???

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

Hey Dan, glad to hear you got some fish. Our group had a solid opener.
16 walleye and 1 nice pike were caught total. We started out Friday midnight and enjoyed a beauty night, but most of our fish were caught Saturday night. Everything on the troll, HJ's and rouges, 5 on the planer board and the balance flat lining. Our largest walley was 9.9 and the pike was 9.4. The smallest walleye we caught was a 5lber. Talk about 2 nice nights to fish! Our boat crapped out so we ended up renting from Merlands. Thanks Jennifer! O, and the cookies were dynamite!

I will definitely be down for the fall fish. We are tentatively booked for the fall get together ( Merlands). Good luck to all!

Jimbo.

Hey Dan, glad to hear you got some fish. Our group had a solid opener.
16 walleye and 1 nice pike were caught total. We started out Friday midnight and enjoyed a beauty night, but most of our fish were caught Saturday night. Everything on the troll, HJ's and rouges, 5 on the planer board and the balance flat lining. Our largest walley was 9.9 and the pike was 9.4. The smallest walleye we caught was a 5lber. Talk about 2 nice nights to fish! Our boat crapped out so we ended up renting from Merlands. Thanks Jennifer! O, and the cookies were dynamite!

I will definitely be down for the fall fish. We are tentatively booked for the fall get together ( Merlands). Good luck to all!

Jimbo.

Good job Jimbo. Glad to hear you had success.

We stayed at Muskie Manson on the weekend. How about you guys?

Cheers,

Mike

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

Jimbo, not to pry too much info from you, but what area of the bay were you fishing? Also what colour/size HJ worked the best?

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Good Fishing, CC Lad.

we went out sat.5:30 am - 12:00 noon and caught a few decent pike all came on casting minnow baits. Went in for a nap and back on the water at 4:30 till 11:00pm and were rewarded with more pike. about 8 of them and the largest being a shade over 8lbs. One fella in the boat lost a good walleye at boat side as it snapped him off. Try to be back again in a week or two to try again.
good luck to all!!

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O2BFSHIN

We had a group of 21 guys down fishing out of 10 boats fishing the Trent. Everyone caught a few fish at night trolling slim cranks(rogues/rapalas), switched to controlled drift jigging the lower mouth of the river for those tough post-spawn fish, water temp 58 F. Largest fish in our group was 9.8 lbs, I managed only 6 walleyes on Sat. morning, one 9 lbs, one 8 lbs, three between 6&7 lbs and one in the slot. Jig of choice was 3/8 and 1/2 oz orange fuzzy-grub tipped with minnow. Most fish I saw were over 25". Gotta love BOQ.

Tightlines

Hey Mike. Darn I had no idea you were at the muskie mansion or I would have dropped over to say hello and introduced myself. I still give you credit every time a walleye slams my rogue...not sure if you remember why, but that was your hot tip for me last year, before the opener.
Maybe catch you in the fall? We are booked.

As to what else and where? The black-silver minnow patterned HJ really out performed all others, deep diver and as large as you can get 'em.
Don't be afraid to troll them fast enough to generate good action.
My favourite thing to do is pop the motor in and out of neutral...a lot of fish hit on the change up, and it was Kevins motor so what the heck...

Where? We caught fish consistently on island shoals 8-15ft of water.
I'm no Captn Hank but I am certain those fish were coming out of those weed beds and slammin' our timely presentations (night time that is)

I ended up with Patio ( king of the double header) in my boat...long story but my other fishin buddy fell in the lake on the way to boat....best described as the Appleton plunge...lol...I was low on company for the night so my best buddy Patio ( a very qualified replacement) jumped in for an exciting cameo appearance.

Patio had a couple of hits that were as fierce as anything we hit in the fall or anyother time. I mean arm rippers, big whacks. He landed 2 in a row, both big jacks and the 3rd whack straightened out the last set of trebles on his DD-HJ. Coincidently our other buddies caught a 9.4 lb Pike right after this going the opposite direction. Patio was holding the hot rod most of the weekend, as was my other buddy Mike in the big Lund. Mike had good luck fishing with a planer board and a DD-Hj clown. All of our fish were caught after 8pm and before 4am.

Sorry guess I am still pumped and babbling on. I normally don't write much on this board, listen mostly... let me just say that I have learned a tonne from you boyz, and I couldn't pop down twice a year and catch PB's if it wasn't for y'all. Keep this board rockin!

I have some pic's including, a photo I grabbed of a fellow with a really nice brown trout. I need a little insight on how to get these digital photos on the board! I'd love to share them with ya! Superdad you must know about this???

Jimbo...

OK guys, what it the code HJ?

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Daren

HJ = Rapala Husky Jerk

eye-tracker

Thanks....bear with me...just getting into the trolling thing on the new york side...boats were thick in Black River Bay on Saturday and Sunday....did some trolling up in the river our of Dexter...then went out in the lake around Bull Rock across from Sackets Harbor....boats were thick....guess fishing was not bad early in morning...most boats fishing 27 to 30 of water trolling rogues.