Quinte Fishing

My buddy and I left my place at 3am, picked up EagleEyesFlash along the way and arrived in Picton around 6:15am, 1st people at the launch. Prep the boat and launch...... no water coming out of tell tale hole! After a bit of playing around water starts flowing and we are good to go.

Note for future.... do not run with rods in my rod holders when it is rough and freezing...



We make a run and set up our 5 rod spread around Keith's Shoal and start trolling East towards Bat cave, we mark a few fish but no action, we continue trolling East eventually turning North and cutting across to the North shore East of the lighthouse.

Eventually we turn and start trolling the north shore west towards the lighthouse. Around 12 noon as we are trolling the lead core line snaps on our 3 colour lead core set up. We turn to go back and pick up our in-line board that broke off and there is a fish on our broken line. After alittle hand to hand combat, my buddy Jason handlines in this nice little bonus...




Trout was caught on an orange reef runner on 3 colour core.

We continue trolling the north shore heading west past the lighthouse, around 1pm a board falls back, I am up to get the rod and after a bit of a battle we land our first eye of the day. A fat 11 pound 5 oz pig, caught on grey ghost reefrunner 200 feet back in 60 feet of water.



After a quick release we reset and continue trolling coming up on a shoal from 6o feet to 3o feet our 3 colour core rod with a blue and chrome Trolls to 20 goes off and after a good battle EagleEyesFlash lands our 2nd walleye of the day, a nice 29" and 10 pounds of quinte gold.



At about 2:30pm we pull our gear and head for Picton Bay, we trolled Picton Bay until 6 pm, without a bite.

All in all a good day we caught a couple good fish and had good company on the boat.

Unfortunately my boat will be going into storage so Quinte trolling has come to an end for this years,

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NICE

Thanks for the report & pics Jim, nice brown

Al

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Nice job Jim. Crazy that the fish was still on the core by the time you got to it.

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Very Nice Jim Congrats!

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Great report!
Im thinking about getting lead for a few of my rods next season, is it common for the line to break?
Is there a difference in quality between brands?

Well done Jim. I was with Roaster for the day. We were skunked without a hit. We didn't last long East of the Ferry. It seemed everywhere went though the wind was blowing. The calmest we found was up Long Reach and it wasn't anything special. Anyways congrats on a decent day.

Nice We fished Long Reach for 7hrs and never moved a rod. Brought boat home for the year. Not a good fall for us this year.

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i am from the new york and own a place on green pt. have fished here for over 30 yrs.

Nice healthy Brown and Wallskies. Thanks for your report. Just looking at your iced up poles made me cold. Dave

Good going guys! Where did the leadcore break? at your knot?

For leadcore us the cortland 18# or 27#. I prefer the 27 for Quinte and L Ont. Cortland is eaasier to fish the leaser or line material into it for the knot.

I'm still planning to get out a time or two.
MerryXmas to all.
bill

Good report - thanks for sharing your fishing and that brownie was a real bonus and it was hand lined in - crazy!!!!!!

Looks like you've got the lead core working well.

Cheers C U next year on Quinte

David aka Superdad

The leadcore was 18 pound. We actually had 2 leadcore set ups break, one broke at the willis knot and the other one the actual core broke. I was running split cores 3 colours then a splice of mono then 2 more colours of core. I think maybe the one that the core broke that the ice plus rubbing on the rod eye weaken it. I am going to switch to 27 pound core, my salmon rod has 27 pound core. As well as check my rod eyes for nicks.

I am hoping if we get a patch of warm weather, I can pull the boat out of storage and get out again.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Jim

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"EyeCandy" 2007 Tracker Pro Guide 17 walk thru windshield, 115 hp Mercury Optimax, 6 hp Yamaha 4 str kicker, Scotty electric riggers, YakAttack Gear Trax, Scotty Orca rod holders

Smiths Falls DCI Redhawks Fishing Team Coach

nicely done thanks for shareing great pics.

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Jim
use a double or triple knot on the willis. i use floro 15 for leader and 20 floro for willis. All good so far after 2-3 years use.
bill

thanks for the tip Bill, I will retie with double or triple willis.

Jim

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"EyeCandy" 2007 Tracker Pro Guide 17 walk thru windshield, 115 hp Mercury Optimax, 6 hp Yamaha 4 str kicker, Scotty electric riggers, YakAttack Gear Trax, Scotty Orca rod holders

Smiths Falls DCI Redhawks Fishing Team Coach

Wonder if using 45lbs lead core could have prevented the line from breaking?

Just read 45lb Lead core weight is the same as 18lb, the only difference is the sheath thickness.

http://www.upangler.com/leadcore.html

Never tried using lead before but it seems like a good tool in Quinte. Heading out once more in the new year, I'm going to give lead a try.