Bay of Quinte Hardwater Report - December 19

[Jeff_C]

We scouted yesterday morning checking out various areas of the Bay of Quinte that had safe enough ice to venture out on. Most areas that we checked were not quite there yet with only 1 to 2 inches. We found a place that had more and we figured that there should be fish there, but didn't have time to actually drop a line.

 

Today we headed out at first light on the hunt. We were on 4.5 to 5" of hard black ice. Within a few minutes we began to mark some fish but we had to figure them out as they were not aggressive. It didn't take too long to crack the code and we started chipping away at them. They were short biting and stealing a lot of minnows. A few fish were lost and one break off, but we ended up with a successful morning and were off the ice around 10:00am.

 

Here are a few pictures from the morning.

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Terry]

nice going

 

now I really need to find some good ice

[Leecher]

Awesome report and pics Jeff

Nice eyes..... Congratulations

Thanks for sharing

Leechman

[msp]

Thats great !

To think that guys have been catching them from a boat less than two weeks ago.

What an amazing fishery.

[Jeff_C]

Yes. I was in a boat on Wednesday.

[Roy]

Congrats on your success out there. Looks like a great time.

Call me chickenliver if you like but I cannot icefish on less than a solid 12 inches of good ice under me. Some people are afraid of heights, with others it's something else.

[Jds63]

i'm just chompin at the bit waiting for some ice close by, and you guys are already pulling in beauties like that....

 

awesome

[anders]

Nicely done....love the pic of the eyes on the ice

[ehg]

Nice going on the fishies, not a big fan of ice fishing but will go to Quinte for those eyes.

First ice is always the best there.

[tibbs]

Great Job!

[Cookslav]

Big Bay I imagine...I hope LOL!

I was fishing Picton Bay in the boat Last Monday.

There was Ice on Big Bay, but didn't look great at that point.