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Having to take advantage of the limited number of days with good weather, it was a day to hit the water and try our luck with some jigging We have watched over the years the number of anglers who jig for the fish around Thompsons Point and I had only tried it last year with Dan Elliot in late Nov.

There are some who relish the jig bite and eagerly await the arrival of the fish to the area. I won't mention names but you know who you are!!!!

Laker John and I decided that we would try the jigging for a couple of hours to try it out and then we would troll the rest of the day. we began the fishing at 0740 and fish were attracted right away. In the first 45 minutes we had landed a dozen walleyes, granted they were all very small but eager to take our jigs.

We continued fishing and around 1000, I had to relay our news to BayBoy,we had landed a total of 20 fish by then and as I spoke on the phone, I hooked and lost what felt like a nice fish.

Needless to say, we stuck with the jigging and followed the first rule of fishing -"Don't leave fish to find fish!" we hardly had time to eat a sandwich as the fish kept taking our jigs.

We were within ear shot of Ken and Dawn when she laned her PB of 11.1 lbs and watched as they took pictures.

Around 1300 hrs, we decided to take a break from jigging and trolled from Thompsons, past the yellow marker and over to the west shore trying different lures, the trolling gods weren't smiling on us for that hour, so we returned to jigging and landed abothe half dozen in the final hour.

We packed it in around 1515 and headed to the launch ramp.

We could see Hodgey and his boat jigging the day, West Lake Willow's boat trolling the area. I guess there were others who were out that but we couldn't recognize , everyone has a survial suit and we often don't recognize boats.

It was the greatest day we have ever had fishing the Bay of Quinte, the total of walleyes landed was 44 and as mentioned not very many of the were in the range of keepers. The size of the fish bodes well as we figured to have seen at least three year classes of fish in our day on the water.

I want to thank BayBoy for taking the picture as we stopped to tyalk about our jigging adventure.




The day has confirmed our belief that jigging does produce fish and we'll be back to try it again.

Cheers

David aka Superdad

You got the numbers jigging but as mentioned it also produced some d.d.d.double digit beauties. Think of all the gas you saved.

Awesome day to boot. I still can't believe I put the boat away two weeks ago and that I'll be cutting my grass again tomorrow.

great story guys!

awesome repost.

double dig.





gatta love it!

Sounds like a great day!!!..nice report.

Great day SD!!!!! Congrats, love that beauty by yer feet!!

Good report guys.

The fish who at the back it is looks like a monster fish.

ASK

Great report as always SD - proves the old saying "if you can't beat them, join them". Have to love the weather for this time of year.

Hi David,

Sounds like a great day of fishing, good for you. When I was down on Sunday we brought our jigging rods but never did get to Thompsons.
I remember our first trip down years and years ago and we jigged the point first thing. We still laugh today because the first eye caught was by me and it was a whopping 4 incher caught on a 5 inch minnow. All the way to the bay to catch monster eyes, we giggled like school girls. Picture was on the bait shop wall for years.
Nice to see that you caught many year classes. That only bodes well for the future.

Tim

Hey David (Superdad)

Looks like a great day. Last time down I trolled the Reach with limited success. Must try jigging next time. Guess I got stuck in the trolling groove. Thanks for the report.

Is there a ramp near Thompson Point or do you use the one at the ferry?

Billy Bones