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Kevin

I thought 70ft was deep .....I would have never guessed they would ever be any deeper than that. 125 ft is amazing!!!

Kevin

Bass 65-75Ft WOW. Were they stacked up good or spread out? Whats the water temp in the river? I've been fishing BRB and Sandy Pond today...77-79 deg in lake and in the Pond.

Kevin

Nice Fish!! Jigging or trolling?? How deep are you getting the eyes? Are they mixed in with the Bass?

Nice fish.....Big south wind for a while this morning aye?

Kevin

I was catching Sun Fish and a few gills mixed in, one right after another last weekend on Butterflied with similar technique. The fish were suspended from 9-22 ft over 25 ft of water. I just threaded half of a 2in gulp minnow on a #8 glow hook and a couple shots. Used the side imaging to find them, there were several schools, some with over 200 fish in each. No need for live bait and the gulp stays on the hook for several fish.

Like others have said

1) Fight like hell for the first 30-45 seconds then have nothing by the time they are near the boat

2) No need to target them as they are caught while trolling, jigging, casting and rigging

3) There is a good population on Oneida lake as well as Lake Ontario

4) Warning!!!! try to un-hook them while still in the water (they **** all over the place)

Jcar585

on the bass and especially instilling C&R with the boy. Great example!!!!

Kevin

I reversed ya on Butterfield today. I got skunked on bass but found piles of gills and Sunnies. One right after another, there were literally hundreds of them. Couldn't get one hit from a bass though...Tried topwater, spinnerbait, Dives-to 6 and 10, Jigworm and Jig/Craw. Zippo. What was the average size of your bass?

I do fish the bay of quinte alot. Thats why I have released som many big girls. Actually most of the fish we catch are between 5-10 lbs and they get released as well. I am not a meat hunter. If I want walleye to eat I will fish my local lake or oneida and keep 15=20 inch fish. I have had to keep a few big fish over the years for tournies and even then we make the best release effort we can. I guess people have to just realize that Lake Ontarios walleye population is delicate.

+++ Couldn't agree more

Last I knew they were fishing from clines point towards the Isthmus in 30-60 fow. Like said earlier there are a lot of old timers (no offense) that know the walleye migration better than the back of their hand and if you find 4 or 5 boats trolling the same area it is usuallly for walleye. After the Ithmus area they normally migrate out to fox and grenedier island. I think you need a Canadian fishing license for grenedier. After they leave the Ithmus we generally start bass and perch fishing. In July it isn't much to catch 40-50lbs. worth of perch. The bass fishing has been quite grim over the past 3 years but when you catch some they are slobs. We caught 4 5lb+ Smallies in a few hours worth of fishing one day. I am looking for that 6lb smallie for my wall.

Chas0218

Yeah.......I know!!!! Like this one????? I was by myself so the picture is not that great....a little tough to take a good one from your cell....this gal was a hog!

How are the launches at Isthmus harbor and Hidden Harbor? How much $$$. Thanks.

Mhtrapper

The only time I have seen a lot of boats out there was on opening day weekend and about half that amount the weekend after. The last couple times out there have only been a couple boats fishing besides myself. Many times in the late fall I was literally the only boat out there, but I fished up to the weekend before Thanksgiving and I was having a bonanza with bass/pike but it was cold! Frankly though, without a lot of explanation, I'm not a boat chaser. I am willing and want to pay my dues to earn the opportunity to semi consistently locate eyes here. If I lived closer to the lake and could get out more than weekends it likely wouldn't be as bad for me as it's been. For one, while things may look fine in the forecasts, a lot of times the forecast calls for 5-10mph winds and when you get out there it picks up to 15-20 or more and I have to move to protected areas. This area seems to take about 10 minutes to go from manageable waters to very rough. This has proved to be a blessing in disguise at times as I've found some great SM bass locations getting forced into protected spots. It seems I learn something new almost every time I go out so the process is moving forward. However, I've fished a lot of what you'd call "classic" structure oriented spots out there and got zippo for eyes, but again, REALLY big bass and plenty of them. The search goes on!

I would have to say that you should be fishing out toward the open lake. Some where by the head of pt. peninsula by the double boat house, middle shoal, infront of hidden harbor, istmus or as far as fox island. When the water temps heat up most the fish are long gone out of the bays. I have been fishing for these walleyes since i was 15 yrs old and my grandfather was one of the fist people to start trolling for them. The walleyes up there are not like most walleyes elsewhere, they are a breed of their own, always moving. Fish are probly anywhere from 20-60 fow and they are soon probly going to want the summer baits with more action, reef runner, coton cordels, ect. with a much longer lead up to 250ft. and the in line planer boards out as far as 150-200 ft. from the boat. I hope this might help you out and i hope to be up there soon.

Bettie anne

Thanks for the help! If you see a grey Lund MrPike 16 with 90 Merc say hello!

Yep, its up to the individual fisherman.

We released a 14.6 walleye outta quinte a couple of winters back. Just about all of our +10 fish go back. Will keep a dink (4+ or so) for the fryer. Heck we release a lot of fish ontario and erie. But its my choice.

The 14.6 replica sits on the wall. Great leasson for the 11 year old.

to you Mark

One of the best known charter guys on Henderson preaches releasing the big female walleyes and keeping the smaller ones to eat and I totally agree with him in theory yet time after time in various publications he has "hero" shots at the dock of huge walleye he and his customers have kept. Some 12-13 lbs.ish. If they want a mount, reproduction mounts look just as good or better as the skin mounts. What would you do if you got a huge one or have already got a huge female walleye in eastern Lake Ontario ?

BP

I noticed that also and it's a bit upsetting fankly. For walleyes anywhere I release anything over 20in. It would be nice to see the Charter Boats practicing what they preach, especially since the population decline from Zebra's.

I fished Guffin Bay yesterday from 10am till 6:30pm. Trolling plugs and spinners. Got skunked on Walleye again. I wanted to hit the north shoreline from Cline's Pt to Shangri la as I have heard this area is good but the wind came up and forced me back to the south shore. Picked up a bunch of Perch and small Smallies trolling the weedline as well as a 22in Drum jigging off Marsh pt. but another zippo trip on eyes. If someone in the know would kindly lend a hand here it would be much appreciated as I'm obviously not fishing the right areas. Trolling spinners in 15-30ft of water for a combination of 12 hours between the last two weekends should have produced at least one fish IMO. I'm lost!!!!

Here is the Northern I was talking about. I'm not complaining about this fisherey at all as I have caught my largest Walleye, SM and Northern here. They are as follows 29in Walleye (out of Black River, not the bay), 22in SM (pig) in the bay. and approximately 40 in northern (pictured) in the bay

Gators

This place is tough on first year fisherman for walleye IMO. I'm going to try the outer edges of Chaumont Bay heading out into the lake. I'll post a report but frankly my confidence is not too high. I went to Oneida last week just to make sure I wasn't suddenly the worst Walleye fisherman in the world LOL! I was reassured, catching fish in the heat of the day in 15 ft of frothed up boat waves with Jet ski's flying by.......

I think Henderson, Black and Chaumont require you to be on that water more than a weekend fisherman or have had several years in the area or be a pro or close in order to reliable locate and catch fish consistently here. However, I'm willing to put in the time for the opportunity to contact 5-12lb fish...

Silver Shad DT-20's ......Perch color spinners off 3OZ. bottom bouncer.

This is the first season of fishing Black River Bay for me after fishing Oneida for years. I fished the north side of Black River Bay on Memorial day afternoon just after the storm. From Pillar to Everliegh. I marked some good fish in 27-32 but couldn't get a taker except a couple perch. I was longlining Trolls to 20's with snaps and Bottom Bouncing a spinner/Trigger-X. I wish I had a camera to check if the marks were Walleye or Pike. I've caught a ton of Pike/Bass in BRB but the Eyes are really tough for me to figure out.

Out in the main basin (60 FOW) There are still large schools of baitfish showing up on the graph but the large schools of heavy marks I was getting a couple weeks ago have diminished by about 70%. I don't know what they were because I didn't get a hit out of those schools. Most of these large marks were topping at 36 going down to 55 over 60FOW. I did manage a 40in Northern out there....weird got her 20ft down over 60......Maybe thats what those schools of large marks were???? Again, Im having a tough time on Wallyeys here...for the amount of time I've spent trolling I feel like I shouldn't be empty handed on eyes out there frankly!

Please note the date on these images and again, these large marks have diminished significantly but there are still some there. Again, the fish I marked on Memorial day were near bottom between 27-32 but were not taking my offerings....perhaps the storm put them off???