Quinte Fishing

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share my experience. We were fishing since about 8 am till dark, mostly trolling.

We made few runs near Cement factory.. We had one bite.
Average size drum took smaller size Reef Runner.
RR has shartruz belly and pink-violet on top.
And my partner put 2 oz weight 5 feet in front of RR.

We also tried trolling for perch/bass/pike in weed lines for 30 min.
I've caught few on mainly shartruze crank bait.
My friends also caught few on different colors.
We trolled at 1.7-1.9 miles/hour which is pretty fast in my mind for perch at this time of the year. Still fish were reacting. I would like to get your feedback about it.

Around 12, we started trolling in Adolphus reach. North & South shore.
We marked fish in very many places, but not everywhere.
We were registering them at very different depths. I'd say between 15 to 50 feet.
It made me impression, that they were moving, not dormant. Because arcs were pretty pronounced.
We tried all lures, colors combinations. Well ... not a single bite.
We used downrigger. I tried even salmon spoons in NK gold-green-silver & gold-black with silver Christmas tree in the middle. I tried very old deep diving fat shad chrome-black with pink bottom.

Surface temperature was about 56.7 F at Adolphus reach.

I go to BOQ for 5 years. I kind of noticed that each year walleye season starts later. Did you notice the same pattern?
What would be the main factor that fish does not bite yet?
Is that the higher water temperature or something else as well? Like air pressure change.

Great report Igorart, thanks for sharing the details. I can't help you with the trends as I'm pretty new to fishing Quinte, but I'll be interested to hear what others have to say

Thanks for a great report, the weather moving in might have something to do with it and yes later in the year usually is better.