Bay of QUinte September 2010

I know all 4 of you are waiting on a report from Florida and Sir's bachelor party, but I am awaiting a few more pictures before I can do that report justice.

In the meanwhile, here is a report on a weekend trip Musky and I made last year to the Bay of Quinte.

We stayed at Merland Park, who have an awesome logo which looks like Jurassic Park.

We stayed in a 2 person cottage, which had full facilities and was within view of the dock.

Merland Park is located in Picton on the world famous Bay of Quinte in Ontario!  Having never really fished the Big Bay, I did what anyone these days does, and did some research on the internet.  The thing is, the entire bay is know to be able to produce fish.  The problem lies with this being a big body of water (let's be honest, it's huge!), and actually finding a good place to start fishing.

Musky and I fished all the way from Picton to Hay Bay - which the handy dandy internets told me was a great place for pike.  Because of the vastness of this body of water, and my lack of experience really fishing deep water structure, we headed for shallower weedlines in the various smaller bays and points.  For all of the talk of how replete with fish the Bay is, I could have caught just as many in my toilet.  The problem was fisihing in spots that, although they loked good, were holding no fish.  We had to fish other spots until we found what was working.

We eventually did just that.
On a relatively steep shoreline with fast moving water and green weeds, we fished spinnerbaits just above the weeds, which finally paid off for us.

And this nice one.

We did not have a working scale with us, so there was no way to tell how big she was.

Musky was not having the same success.  On one particular drift, we drifted into the weeds, and which point, I coached her; told her where to cast and what speed to retrieve at.  This was her first weekend using her baitcaster, and perhaps her confidence was not there initially.  But after this fish, we found it.

Again, we did not know just how big this girl was, but she was a very nice bass for Musky.

We didn't catch anything else after that, but it was a great way to end the fishing.