Mako

Hi LD17,

Here is a map of boat ramps on the Bay.

http://www.fishingbayofquinte.com/maps/boat-ramps/

Cheers,

Aron

That is the same one I bought irishfield. And with the exchange rate, shipping & a small customs charge it was at my door for $244.67

Pricey for 8 pounds of metal but I was tired of looking and would be kicking my self if this year I flopped over and was hanging off my transom freezing my nads off.

Here is the website:

http://www.rnrd.com/

Cheers,

Aron

I have been wanting a low profile ladder which I can access from the water encase I ever fell out and I finally found one. If anyone has tried to climb in their boat wherein a wet survival suit in freezing water with out a ladder they can attest to the fact that is almost impossible. I find it hard even in the summer wherein my trunks to easily hop in.

I stumbled on a photo on some Texas fishing board showing this eladder, did some research and found out the company. I had to order directly from them in Texas but it is exactly what I have been looking for.

It has a pin on the side which you pull out to slide the ladder down.

Thought I would share encase others are looking for this solution.

Target: Panfish

Location: The Bay

Date: Saturday April 24th

Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm

Water Temps: 49-53'F

Martycoo and I headed out to do some panfishing Saturday morning. It was a great day to be on the bay.

Temps in the bay were 49'F in the main lake and up to 53'F in the shallows.

Lots of turtles, beavers, and woodpeckers were busy enjoying the weather.

We landed many blugils, pumpkins, perch and chunky rock bass on the floats, and of course a few bass and pike wanted to taste our tiny tubes.

The carp were starting to hurd up also, so its going to be time to get out the corn.

Thanks Mike for the good times.

Cheers

9 inch Bluegil

Chunky Rocky

Thanks for the feedback. This was the first time shooting food and I felt rushed since I had to take the shots and run back up and continue cooking the rest of the fish.

Once you add the club soda & egg to the dry ingredients you have to fry with it right away to keep the batter bubbly, which in turn creates a great crust.

Aron

Date: Jan 12th 2010

Location: Belleville Area

Ice thickness: 12 inches

Time: 7:30am-11:30am

Lures: Jigging Raps & Swedish Pimples with minnow chunks

I headed out Tuesday morning with my buddy, Jean Marc, to track down some jumbos. We fished the same spot I had gone to a week before.

The first drop in the hole and we got a perch. Always a good sign. So we set up the hut here and were able to do really well for the first hour and half, but by 10am everything slowed down. We left the warmth of the hut and popped a few more holes but the fish seemed to have shut down.

In the end we landed around 40 fish, and I brought 8 home to cook up.

The meal I wanted to do was Tempura Perch with Rice and a Lemon Ginger sauce. I also wanted to take some photos of the plate in my white box, which is a setup I have for doing product shots.

I have never done tempura before but it turned out quite well and as the recipe stated, if done right it wouldn't be oily at all.

Also included are some shots from last Sunday when we headed out for walleyes at Mass. Pt but unfortunately they were not cooperating that day....although I did get a nice sunrise photo.

Cheers,

Aron

The hut

The Frozen Bay

The keepers

It's fry time!

Tempura Perch with Rice and a Lemon Ginger sauce - Yes I watch too much FoodTV

Close up of the Crunch

Mass. Point Sunrise

Flasher Action

Hi Nitrox,

I sent you a PM.

Thanks.

I picked up the strike indicators at Fishing Depot in Toronto about 2 years ago. The black pieces are just rubber blocks with a slit in them, they install in snap and really help with the light bite. Normally your looking for the rod tip to be pulled down but with this your looking for he bead to go up.

The shrink tube ones sound interesting.

aRon

Date: Jan. 4th 2010

Location: Belleville Area

Time: 1:30-3:30

Ice Thickness: 10 inches

So I finally had some time to get out on the ice, well sorta of I only had two hours, but its better than nothing. Headed out to a spot that we had good luck with last season when going for perch...got to love GPSs. I was on my own, so dragging the 2 man Frabill was a bit of a cardo workout.

I didn't have time to get minnows so I just used some Gulp with a jigging rap and some more on a swedish pimple. First fish was a dink then 10 mins later I had on a jumbo which I lost at the hole. I had some more taps then nothing for another 10mins when I landed the first jumbo which was 11 inches.

The school must of been passing my hole every 10 mins becuase it would go off like clockwork. I'm glad I had the strike indicator on becuase even the big ones where just making it move slightly.

In the end I landed about 20 fish in 2 hours with 7 being in the 11inch range, all were released, not bad for mid day and no minnows on the BOQ.

The next outing will be a all day event and some of those tasty buggers will be coming home

Sitting on 10 inches

One of many 11 inch Jumbos

Strike Indicator

Lures of the day

The Setup

Cheers,

aRon

Went out today for a couple of hours to test out my new trolling setups, we didn't land anything but was a great day to get out of the office. The RSC linecounter reels are easy to use and feel really sturdy in your hand.

In my 20 years of fishing this was the first time I actually trolled for more than 20 mins. I'm a die hard caster but thought I should add something else to my arsenal. So I picked up these setups and now I'm a trolling newbie I hope once I get my first fish it will become more exciting because just sitting there staring at the finder isn't that fun.....plus I end up eating more food just waiting for something to bite

I also went into Victoria harbour and the shad were pretty thick in spots.

This is what we were seeing a lot of, plus sometimes the hooks were 3 times this size.

Notice the bait ball on the bottom

This looks like crappie to me. Suspending and in a towering pattern.

RSC Linecounter reel and Magnum trolling rod.

Thanks Roy for the plug,

Adding the finishing touches to the site, and just put up a contest with a sweet prize for all the Bay of Quinte walleye hunters.

Cheers

www.fishingbayofquinte.com

Thanks for the replies. I'm feeling a lot better about next weekend.

Cheers,

Aron

Hi All,

Was wondering if anyone took notice of the water temperature when they were out panfishing this opener.

We're heading out next weekend and want to know what to expect with the water levels and the temperature.

Cheers,

Aron

Why even argue if we are causing Global Warming or not. If it gets people finally doing their part it works for me.

This guy says it all and I doubt anyone could disagree...unless your a freak who doesn't care about the future and would like to gamble on every species on earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI

And yes I turned off the lights at Earth Hour and lite up a carbon-neutral beeswax candle and made sweet love to my wife on my organic cotton sheets while listening to music on my hand-crank radio. Oh I also harnessed the heat energy from our "activity" and charged my 2 trolling motor batteries Boo Ya!

"We don't inherit the earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children"

Wow thanks everyone, thats a wealth of info.

I will take all that into consideration when I'm deciding what vehicle I should go with.

Cheers

Hi All,

Well with the arrival of the little one, already having a dog and plans for for another child in the future the time has come.

Just wondering what should I look out for when shopping for a minivan that I can tow with.

My boat is a Crestliner Angler 16 SC with 30hp 4stroke - I estimate with trailer and all, its around 1500lb. I use to tow it with my Grand am for the first two years I owed it.

Any information or experiences you could share would be great. Like is there any rear wheel drive mini vans?

Thanks in advance,

Aron

"There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer.

There has never been a answer. That's the answer."

Gertrude Stein

One technique instead of blurring is to shot from a different angle. The angler with the fish crouching and the camera guy standing shooting down ward.

Unless your those crazy trout float guys that screams "I know that pebble in the shot...how could you!" the shots should hide any land marks.

I'm behind you on this one, Snog. Yes there is great pike fishing in the GTA, but people have to find the spots themselves.

I have been pike fishing the harbour for years, taking logs of temperature, weather, depth, lures, etc. I love to figure out patterns and spots myself, not looking at a photo and picking out the spot on the spot.

When I was younger and did shore fishing, I had a guy follow me right from the ferry to my spot where he ended up keeping 2 pike and an out of season bass. He told me he read on the internet that he could find food for his family down at the islands. That was just one guy. I suspect the next weekend his whole family was down there!

I play by all the rules and have been able to fish the harbour pretty much hassle free. I have my harbour license and I know were I can fish and were I can’t. I don’t want some yahoos coming down without a license not knowing the rules and making the police crack down.

Some people might fish the harbour once or twice and throw some pics up and move back to there cottage lake, but some of use fish it all year round. And for the shore guys this is an amazing area where a shore fisherman has miles of shoreline to fish and a chance at some monster pike. Let’s not forget we’re fishing on the doorstep of a city with a population of 2 million!

Lets respect what we have.

Aron

The last few times I have been out around the opener its rained. The bite was great ALL day, its like evening all the time.

Check the report & pics 13 and 14 inchers and rain

http://www.hookmorefish.com/phpBB/viewtopi...ghlight=crappie

BRING ON THE RAIN! Just no wind.

There is no pike in the harbour. Spread the word

I have the Frabill Trekker (XL Twin) ... the new one comes with padded seats.

I never tried other shelters but I can tell you this one is well designed and thought out. Fits perfectly in the back of the Explorer too.

http://www.lebaron.ca/pdf_fall_06_07/icefi...ll_shelters.pdf

Yep thats a Mako, as Ric said the teeth give it away.....it also has the blue tint to it. This one is huge and at first glance looks like a white ....but they are rare around Nova Scotia. Here is a link to a white thats had been caught off PEI:

http://nautilus.mathstat.dal.ca/shark/english/white.htm

The yarmouth village paper is onto the hoax

http://www.yarmouth.org/magazine/urban.htm

Info on Makos and other east coast sharks

http://www.newenglandsharks.com/shortfin.htm

http://nautilus.mathstat.dal.ca/shark/english/mako.htm

Well casting Fin-S plastic minnows was producing bigger fish for us, but just jigging them below the boat you could see like 20 perch taking turns going for the lure. When the action was hot we timed our selfs and landed 11 fish in 5 mins.

Hey musky66 we were out that morning also, started off clear and warm, but by 11:00 the temp dropped and that brought out that crazy fog. There were 22 boats out there when I counted and slowly we watched as they were swallowed up by the fog.

Steady perch action but nothing over 12 inches. We also kept having the loons coming around and the fish would hide for cover. You can see one of them in the shot below.

My GPS is always on when I’m crossing from the park to the fishing area, since you have to cross over the shallow spot near sand island. So I just used the same track when it was foggy for the ride back. With out it, I wouldn’t of even known where shore was…that was some fog. Some guys were fishing real close to the ferry crossing, kind of crazy when you can hear the ferry motor but can’t see the ferry.

The last pic shows how clear the water is, its taken in 14 feet of water. Fun to watch the perch slam the lure below the boat.

Cheers

Aron

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