Quinte Saturday report

Post by **DanElliot** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:30 am

Launched out of Picton at 8am and headed straight for the gap. While motoring down bumped into Tom Gustar who had already landed a bunch of fish. I set up right in the gap and gave it an hour. It was rough and when I lost my drift sock and couldnt troll slow enough I pulled up and headed back to aldophus town. Fortunately I had a second sock onboard but a smaller one which didnt quite slow me down enough unless I trolled into the wind. For the day we went 4/7 as well as few drum too.

The guy I took out doesnt like to use boards so he flatlined and I used the boards. 3 of the fish came on the boards and one on the flatline. At one point the flag dropped and the board was skipping across the water. I grabbed the rod and it as tearing line out. I tried to slow it down and had my buddy throw it in neutral. It still kept going and I thought I am going to lose the Dr and the board if I dont turn it around. It stripped more line and I see the knot on the spool and decide the only thing I can do is clamp down and hold on. I did so and managed to pop the Dr and save the board. When i got the lure back in it had a big white scace on the hook. I guess I foul hooked a big drum

Most of the fish came on the firetiger storm thundercrank but also one on the Manns and one on a deep diver rouge. The Manns was the firetiger crystal glow.
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Dan Elliot - A bad day on Quinte is better than a good day at work !!!

Post by **big-o** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:22 am

Thanks for the report Dan

I did see you out on the Reach saturday....your passenger and I made a few hand signals back and forth....we had just set up , we were working the same water as you ..in fact we passed each other several times...till about 1:30 when you headed more east down the Reach, and then we saw you go by heading back towards the ferry.....fast.....real fast

Looking forward to meeting you and a few others On the Merlin Park get together!!! I'll be there .....see you on the water

Post by **Wall-I-Guy** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:02 pm

Oh well Dan, too bad about the sock.

A good sock sacrificed for a good cause

At least you caught a few right

Now if you'd lost the board too

Post by **ken & Jo** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:30 pm

Nice work Dan! It isn't even November yet! See you on the water soon or the weekend in November.

cheers
Ken