Dano's excellent R&R weekend.. I mean Lloyd, Terry,

irishfield · November 17, 2008

Picked Terry up on Thursday afternoon and then Dano a little further South. Headed for Lloyd Daume's house, in Port Hope, in time to go out for supper. Now before anyone throws the spam flag...this wasn't a charter... it was 4 good friends (thanks to years on OFC) getting together to fish Quinte from Lloyd's boat. Lloyd comes to my cottage to ice fish... I go to his boat to fish.. twit for tat... not a dime changed hands... but we did throw a good amount of change to the fish gods and it paid off!

With basically no sleep, we left Lloyds around 4:30am to head for Picton. Hit the Timmies for breakfast and the A&P for lunches. Got the boat loaded up and headed out onto the BOQ before sunrise. Got this nice shot as the sun broke over the horizon.

It pays to be out early, no matter how much my body was complaining, as we had three fish in the boat before 9am. It also doesn't take a rocket scientist (no offense to douG! LOL) to figure out that boat traffic shuts them down. We had the area pretty much to ourselves and once the boats started jockeying for positon and others started jigging... they shut down. Fish push out and down....time to move elsewhere.

We flipped a match book for "heads/tails" to get a fishing order. Terry/Dano/Wayne and Lloyd just pretty wanted to drive the boat while we threw the lines out etc. and dragged the fish back in. Speaking of dragging... as most describe the big 'eyes as wet socks we got lucky and had some fairly agressive fish. Peeling drag and lots of head shakes on the majority caught over the weekend (we put 16 out of 18 in the boat in 2.5 days).

Pretty cheerfull bunch for 6am with no sleep.

Dano waiting for Terry to get first fish on Day 1(friday)..

..and no sooner than Dano hitting the cabin, fish on for Terry.

Then we saw Big Bird (Mike the Pike - Darth Vader) go by..

Dano's turn next with fish on and a shameless plug for Lloyd's business.

Well Dan had his half way to the boat and another rod went off... so we got a nice double header

One well equipped boat. If that wasn't enough Lloyd went out and blew $1000 on tackle last week in anticipation of our season closing (for him) outing.

Terry with his second on. Tell us we're not having fun!

Captain Lloyd

Wasn't long before Dan had the next Friday fish.

I caught another one, but nobody took a picture on my camera, and then Terry had one pull strong..even took the line out of the clip! One big ass perch.

What a gorgeous day. +13C by early afternoon!

Dano with another..

All in all we put 8 fish in the boat on Friday. 7 'eyes and 1 perch.

Saturday it was still warm... about 10C at 5 am.. but raining pretty hard.

That was fine... we had the reach to ourselves for almost 2 hours before all the hung over folks started coming out. We got 4 fish right away.. and then when other boats started running around that shut it all down.

Terry with the second fish of the day (again my fish on their cameras)

Dano up next..

I was up next and we were goofing around pretty good... and I lost it! Oh well.. my turn over.

Terry up next and we thought we'd try it again.. Dano to the "bubble room" please! LOL

And FOUR hours later..Dano well rested and Terry with a fish in the nasty weather.

..and then Dano another nice one

Sunday I got my first little eater at 7am.. so it was Terry's turn and that meant Dano had to assume the positon again.. lol

It was snowing pretty good throughout the morning and the fishing got tough. Lloyd went to change a lure colour... popped a line.. 5 cranks and bang. Got another nice little eater.

We stuck it out awhile longer... pulled in the lines around noon and headed for Picton. Part of our plan was to haul Lloyd's boat home for him as well to conclude the season. We waited almost 20 minutes for some guy to "prep" his boat for launching :wallbash: and then finally got Lloyd's boat on the trailer. Then found a couple roller groups had rolled over. Before we could redunk it to fix another was loading their boat and locked the truck door. At least it was some friends.. and we had a good laugh and Lloyd and I got to refresh our coat hanger skills!

Boat repostioned on the trailer and we headed for Port Hope. Got Lloyds boat tucked away and then went down to the Ganny to do some steelheading. Of course we can't post pictures of that one... might be someone's secret spot! Seriously... we used the fish cleaning station for the days eater catch. Met an OFC'r there as well...and I forget his OFC handle.

Terry, Dano and I headed for home and into the snow. Dropped Dan... then Terry and then up the 400 I went with it getting worse and worse every mile. When I got on 93 I saw all the trees bent/broke and power off everywhere... right thru to Midland. Very few places lucky enough to have power. Many are still out around here, and so far we've been lucky to stay on the grid other than a few power bumps.

Main thing noted again this year while fishing the BOQ. Most don't seem to understand what boat control is... or why they should have some. Just because you are on the right side of the pack and want to turn left.... doesn't mean everyone is going to go with you. Slow down and go behind... don't run the other off the troll pattern. Why when 10 boats are already going N/S... do 2 feel the need to troll E/W? Next year Lloyd's vessel will be outfitted with rocket launchers..or torpedos. Feels that will be much more "fun" than using the air horn all day long. Another thought was getting rid of out of date flares at BOQ each year..... :angel:

I gotta say we weren't gonna do BOQ this year, and we were gonna go muskie hunting instead... but I had a BLAST with these 3 lads on the BOQ (other than the 4am wake up calls!). Gotta be the cheapest, travelling, fishing trip any of us have ever done as well in a long time. We bought our breakfast at Timmies... then went next door to A&P and bought the $3.21 sandwiches for lunch and went out to Shoeless Joes in Napanee for supper. Stayed at the Twin Peaks Motel for only $65 a night per room = $32.50 each! Gas for the truck to travel, accoms and meals cost us each less than a $90 day. Lloyd would take nothing for gas in exchange for me towing his boat home.

Thanks again Lloyd, Terry and Dan for another weekend FULL of laughs, good times and hell even 16/18 fish this time!

Edited November 18, 2008 by irishfield

solopaddler · November 17, 2008

Fabulous Wayne, looks like a blast!

(Lloyd sure does have an impressive collection of lures in his boat )

Terry · November 17, 2008

great report

I can't add much to that

once again I had a great time with you guys, seems like I was laughing all the time

we caught some great fish thanks Lloyd, you sure know how and where to catch them

Wayne Dan Lloyd

thanks for a great long weekend

Edited November 17, 2008 by Terry

medmart · November 17, 2008

Great report Wayne those where some nice eyes you guys got

there sure where a lot of boats out there Saturday i knew every

time i heard Lloyd's air horn someone was getting to close

Rob

Roy · November 17, 2008

Fantastic report Wayne! So glad you all had a great time. You were certainly in good company. That Lloyd dude knows his stuff too! Thanks for posting that.....that was great!

ps. We have a tackle store here who doesn't have half of Lloyd's inventory.

misfish · November 17, 2008

Everyone seemed to catch fish bro. Wheres your report? You didnt get SMELLY did ya 'ROOKIE"? LOL

irishfield · November 17, 2008

I think Rob's report would be best over the phone bud! :wallbash:

BillM · November 17, 2008

Good job Wayne! Those are some monster eyes!

Any luck on GBay yet this fall?

TJQ · November 17, 2008

Great report Wayne... man those are some nice pickerel... Im jealous..

BUSTER · November 17, 2008

very nice

Jet · November 17, 2008

You guys were being modest when you said, "We caught a few." Some really nice Walleye there!

It was good meeting you guys this weekend.

Bernie · November 17, 2008

Well done you guys. :thumbsup_anim: It's not hard to tell you fellas have a lot of fun together.

Terry · November 18, 2008

Jet, it was good to meet you too

Badger Shark · November 18, 2008

We saw you guys out there on Sat. up near the lighthouse in Adolphus. We had our best day on Quinte this year with 16 of 19 boated. Did notice several resident eyes caught and it looks like you got a few of those too. Nice catches guys, I am heading down on Wednesday and again Sat. Looks like we will have to break ice!

ccmtcanada · November 18, 2008

Glad to see ppl with fish this year at Quinte!!! Excellent report Wayne...looked like you guys had a blast out there this year. I was going to post no pictures no believe for your fish until I scrolled down and saw them....LOL.

Some real BIG walleye this year guys....great stuff!

irishfield · November 18, 2008

Badger.. the only two fish that came from beyond the Ferry are the pics of Terry and Dan's fish in the heavy rain Saturday afternoon. All the other fish were caught in "one line land". We saw Sheldon's boat.. didn't know you were on it.

lew · November 18, 2008

Thanks for that Wayne, best fish'n tale I've read in awhile.

misfish · November 18, 2008

I think Rob's report would be best over the phone bud!

Im not pleased from what I have been told. :stretcher:

irishfield · November 18, 2008

You guys were being modest when you said, "We caught a few." Some really nice Walleye there!

It was good meeting you guys this weekend.

Sorry that I forgot your handle jet (that we met at the Ganny Fish clean station).

Joey · November 18, 2008

Super report Wayne. Looks like you guys had a great time together once again.

Great pictures :clapping:

Joey

Leecher · November 18, 2008

Great report and pics Wayne :thumbsup_anim:

Man those eyes are huge :w00t: Good quality fishing with great company..... can't get better than that :clapping: :thumbsup_anim: :canadian:

Thanks for sharing

Leechman

Terry · November 18, 2008

geee..

we missed this one

I like this picture best of all

I think Wayne took it

misfish · November 18, 2008

Fin,ly a smile

irishfield · November 18, 2008

Yep a great shot Terry... and yes I took it on your camera. A few fish I missed taking on my camera... and many of mine are on yours and Dan's camera only. No point delaying the release of these fine fish for extra shots....... which brings me to another beef from this weekend.

The :asshat: holes we saw dancing/hooting and hawlering that they caught a big fish... high fives... 20 pictures and then a gill hold triple summersault throw release back to the lake. Appalling..... some of the same lot that can't get the concept of trolling in the same direction as well...

Edited November 18, 2008 by irishfield

misfish · November 18, 2008

which brings me to another beef from this weekend.

Was circus o lay on this weekend?

Edited November 18, 2008 by misfish

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