Well I made the trip down from the Ottawa area Saturday to try my luck at Quinte. Arrived at Picton shortly after 6:30am, Picton was a busy place Saturday morning.
After launching headed east of the ferry and after a quick briefing to my first fishing partners for the day, both Quinte virgins, we were fishing. With two Quinte rookies on board I was hoping we would have a bit of beginners luck. We worked east of the ferry starting on the north side near the lighthouse working east, we marked fish and bait but no takers.
We started with a 5 rod spread (2 flatlined TT20s, 1 reefrunner, 1 td11 and 1 spoon on 5 colour core/torpedo diver set up) we worked our way east and then to the south shore of Adolphus Reach, marking lots of fish but no takers.
We switched up our spread to 2 flatlines with deepdivers; a 2 colour core with reefrunner; a 3 colour core with td11; and 2 riggers with spoons set at 41 feet (dw green/glow spoon) and 35 feet(gold/black ripplin redfin).
We continued to mark fish anywhere from 20 feet down all the way to 80-90 feet down and then as we continued trolling the south shore heading east............ nothing. As we continued to mark lots of deep fish, 80 plus feet down, I dropped them downriggers to 81 and 87 feet and after a few minutes of trolling the spoon on the rigger down 81 feet goes off and we land our first fish of the day...... a nice 3 pound.......... sheephead.
Not exactly what we were looking for. So we decide to pull our lines and run to the gap. As we are pulling lines we decover we had a second first on the rigger at 87 feet and we land our second fish of the day.......... 87 feet down over 120 feet of water on a rippin' redfin..... a nice silver bass.
We set up at the gap and trolled for awhile, marking very, very, very little of anything, so we pull our lines at 1:30pm and headed west.
We had been communicating with 4 other boats by text message through out the day and many other guys out there seemed to be having similar results as our.
After heading west of ferry the we set up on the west side shoreline starting near Thompson's trolling south towards cement plant, we were running 2 flatlined TT20s on the in-line boards and 1 reefrunner running down the shoot 150 feet back. Shortly after we started the reefrunner takes a hit, but the fish gets off during the fight.
We continue trolling towards the cement plant and fished Picton Bay until about 5pm with no other action.
It was a nice day of the water, relatively calm, not cold, a little sun, but no walleye. Hopefully when the winds change direction the fish activity will pick up.
Thanks to all the guys who shared info through out the day.
Hopefully back back down in a week or two.
JimW
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