Bay of Quinte report Jan 14 2015
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:35 pm
Finally got a chance to get up to Quinte for an ice fish, and did a marathon trip. Was on the ice with 2 buddies at Huffs before sun up. We setup fairly close to the access spot in about 26 fow and the 3 of jigged till noon or so, also had a tipup set. With no hut and -28 without the windchill, it was COLD!
I nailed my personal best walleye through the ice early, around 7:30am this one bit on a green glow buckshot and 2 small minnows.
Should've weighed it as it was the best I've iced, but it so cold I didn't want the eyes/gills freezing up. Quick pic and back she went.
Fished all morning with hardly any other action. Ice was decent 4-6" clear hard ice with maybe 2-4" snow ontop. There were a few sleds ripping around.
We packed up after lunch and headed to shermans to setup and meet Tylercurt and his entourage for the evening bite. Down a man (asleep in the truck) it was far less fun towing a heavy 3 man sled-train of gear out to 29 fow. The ice was probably 6" of solid clear ice, although we didn't measure. There were a few quads and an argo out there. We setup by 1:30pm, didn't mark much or catch anything till the sun started dropping. Around dusk there was a quite a flurry of activity for about 1.5 hrs. We iced a couple of 2lb eaters. Tylercurt put on a clinic for some Quinte newbies pulling up a pair of dandy 'eyes in short succession on the same lure I was using in the a.m. with a minnow head, and 2 minnows
A few other guys got some small ones, we missed a flag and a few smaller ones also that didn't make it to the hole. A long day on the ice, but better than I normally do on Quinte.
Go get 'em boys
I nailed my personal best walleye through the ice early, around 7:30am this one bit on a green glow buckshot and 2 small minnows.
Should've weighed it as it was the best I've iced, but it so cold I didn't want the eyes/gills freezing up. Quick pic and back she went.
Fished all morning with hardly any other action. Ice was decent 4-6" clear hard ice with maybe 2-4" snow ontop. There were a few sleds ripping around.
We packed up after lunch and headed to shermans to setup and meet Tylercurt and his entourage for the evening bite. Down a man (asleep in the truck) it was far less fun towing a heavy 3 man sled-train of gear out to 29 fow. The ice was probably 6" of solid clear ice, although we didn't measure. There were a few quads and an argo out there. We setup by 1:30pm, didn't mark much or catch anything till the sun started dropping. Around dusk there was a quite a flurry of activity for about 1.5 hrs. We iced a couple of 2lb eaters. Tylercurt put on a clinic for some Quinte newbies pulling up a pair of dandy 'eyes in short succession on the same lure I was using in the a.m. with a minnow head, and 2 minnows
A few other guys got some small ones, we missed a flag and a few smaller ones also that didn't make it to the hole. A long day on the ice, but better than I normally do on Quinte.
Go get 'em boys
