Salmon off Petre to Prince Edward Points

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Bigger, mature Salmon may finally have arrived for their short migration trip past our area,  (bit of a long ride out of Kingston):

From east edge of Petre Point to west edge of Prince Edward Point (point closest to False Ducks). 

This won’t last more than a few weeks before they are gone.   Saw 2 other boats trolling, hopefully they will write a report.

 (Side note: Been on the American side, off Stony Pt. a few times lately.  As many as 25 boats all in same area.  Remarkably courteous, and friendly, but no one had planner boards out as sometimes only 100-200 ft off each other, sometimes 3 wide crossing each other.)

 

Yesterday, caught a few, missed a few,  but lots of action, happy friends.  Largest was 17 lbs, 38 inches.

Location and pattern:  6:30 am to noon.  Dipsy’s with spoons, and riggers meat on flasher flies.  Green anything seemed best.    In Shipping Channel or 1-2 kms on offshore side of it, in 120-150 FOW.    Hitting 70-80 ft. down.

Fishhawk probe was repeatedly showing deep current travelling  1 -1.5 kph heading westward (which is completely opposite of what you would expect for the Lake to drain towards St. Lawrence River),

but there was big weather the day before, which may have pushed a lot of water into East Basin, and it had to drain back into centre of Lake Ontario).

We were trying to keep probe at 4-4.5 kms/hr., and temps below 50-55F.  (This was hard to do with Lake stirred up).  So, boat speeds ranged from 3.5 – 5.5 kph., depending on direction.

 

Hope to read reports of big salmon around Wellington or Scotch Bonnet,  as a trip there would be fun, but would like it to be productive.