Since I had a couple of vacation days that I needed to use before year end I decided to take some time off to visit friends and family in Toronto and St. Catherines. My initial plans included a visit to Belleville to catch some walleye, but due to some recent cold weather I was sure the Bay of Quinte would be covered with some ice. We had very warm weather on the weekend and there was in fact no ice to be found, but I was able to sneak in some fishing in St. Catherines. I met up with Mikey, the local expert on finding fish in places no one would expect. And once again, he was able to find some fish, catfish to be exact.
We spent a little over an hour fishing a small creek minutes from downtown St. Catherines. Thanks to an outflow of warm water, the area was teeming with catfish and carp. We each caught a couple of small catfish, and watched some other fisherman land a nice carp and a couple more catfish just down stream.
Wednesday December 13th, 2006 @ 9:22 PM | Clive Mathias | Comments
Our good friend Martin, who joined us on one of our craziest bar-crashing, all-night-all-day, fishing adventures, recently sent me some pictures and stories from his trip to Picton and the Bay Of Quinte a few weeks ago. The story and photos alone show how great a time he must have had, and just how poor the conditions were on Lake Scugog for our previous trip.
Martin, we’re going to have to add you to the contributors after this one, so please send me a brief paragraph about yourself. Great job!
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Gillian and I decided to take a quick trip to the Belleville, Ontario to do some shore fishing in the Bay of Quinte with a couple friends. Very windy conditions and heavy boat traffic made locating walleye and bass very difficult. We ended up targeting small pan fish. We caught a variety of fish, including rock bass, sunfish, bluegill and for the first time I caught a goby. The goby is an invasive species that can be found throughout the great lakes. They take over prime spawning sites traditionally used by native species, competing with native fish for habitat and changing the balance of the ecosystem.
We fished well into the darkness and my friends landed a couple nice bass and a big crappie before we packed up and headed home for a few beers.
