trent river update, Saturday and Wednesday evenings

Last Saturday evening got out for some walleye shore fishing.

SLOW. For the few of us fishing - five walleye caught while I was at location - most were over size - my two were at 24" and released. Seven lines in water while I was there.

Remarkable note - previous night Wednesday- Jim (LSO member) gave a stickbait to a young guy. Saturday - when young guy back on location the he caught a keeper waller - when tossed out the 'new' bait to set the drag!!! At first cast!!!

Wednesday I went back out - arrived with only Jim at 6.00. Apparently six had already left with nothing. At 6.20 I caught 24" walleye while talking with Jim. Jim leaves (around 8.00). At 8.30 I loose a tail on my trigger-x - I thought I had snagged but was a massive (walleye?) who took tail of grub!!!

Quick change of bait - and back to area. Tossed where Jim normally fishes - and on second retreive - not focussed - a walleye takes tail of grub!!! Quickly reload - and then minutes later have him in the net!!! 16" keeper - the first in a while!!!

Pictures to follow

24" walleye left in net

Hey Bluenote:

You will have to slow down on the music for the next week.

An 11 fish night of witch I was able to keep two.

One 28"er had one of your jig heads in its jaw.

I put back a 24" fish that tried to swallow my HJ12; it bled out before I cut the split ring on the last hook.

It doesn't seem right to waste a fish.

Wow!!!!

Did I miss a good night!!!

Photo of jig head with tail removed

And another grub's tail removed by walleye:

I only lost 1 jig head this fall to a fish - week earlier - to a walleye that I guessed at 30". I had too much confidence in the braid for too large of a fish.

Great that you could recover the jig! What was the condition of the head and trigger-x?

hey bluenote..my inlaws live on the trent I love to fish didn't know there was pickerel in there...where do u fish if don't mind..

Hey Tex,
No posting of specific locations is allowed. Please read the board rules above!

I would add a stinger to your jigs to eliminate those short strikes. Still need a quick hook set to keep the stinger from going too deep and injuring the fish that are aggressive.

Hey bluenote, from your broken jig shots it looks like you hook you jigs sideways. Any particular reason for that? Don't think i have ever seen anyone do it that way before, but could see it make the tail catch on the hook less.

Elrik I'm not following your question? I'm rigging sideways???

The hook's shank goes most the way through the length of the body and pops out the back .

This was first time in longtime that I'd lost tails -two in 10 minutes.

NSfisher - I've often thought of adding stingers. And decided not to as I want to interfere with the excellent action of the trigger-x tails, plus could pick up more weeds.

Met PUFFBALL tonight and confirmed was my jig head - no one else uses Lindy X-change system.

Elrik I'm not following your question? I'm rigging sideways???

The hook's shank goes most the way through the length of the body and pops out the back .

This was first time in longtime that I'd lost tails -two in 10 minutes.

NSfisher - I've often thought of adding stingers. And decided not to as I want to interfere with the excellent action of the trigger-x tails, plus could pick up more weeds.

Met PUFFBALL tonight and confirmed was my jig head - no one else uses Lindy X-change system.

If you leave slack in the trailer line and keep the point buried you should not loose much action. All the action is initiated from the end of the tail. Just place the trailer 1/2" from the tail.
I would say good luck but you are already kicking some walleye butt

Tex - the Trent River is the final river of the Kawarthas - walleye are everywhere in the system - especially Rice Lake. The Trent is about 50 km long with lots of opportunities for fishing. If interested, suggest doing what I did - get out and try the various places. From Trenton all the way up to Hastings. Some places may not be producing when you're there but for another week or change of weather (note that winds from west are generally best IMO).

Rules of this board or not - I'd be nuts to post location anywhere on the Web - next day could be 100's show up and ruin it for the few. And if my name were in it - I'd not be too popular at this fishing location.

I had to work to find it - and many visits to recognize and understand the potential and when is good time to pull in the fish . . .

And at this place - many people are 'fishing' but few are catching.

NSfisher - correct - nothing to do with luck. The hard work is now paying off .. .

Tex - the Trent River is the final river of the Kawarthas - walleye are everywhere in the system - especially Rice Lake. The Trent is about 50 km long with lots of opportunities for fishing. If interested, suggest doing what I did - get out and try the various places. From Trenton all the way up to Hastings. Some places may not be producing when you're there but for another week or change of weather (note that winds from west are generally best IMO).

Rules of this board or not - I'd be nuts to post location anywhere on the Web - next day could be 100's show up and ruin it for the few. And if my name were in it - I'd not be too popular at this fishing location.

I had to work to find it - and many visits to recognize and understand the potential and when is good time to pull in the fish . . .

And at this place - many people are 'fishing' but few are catching.

NSfisher - correct - nothing to do with luck. The hard work is now paying off .. .

well said Bluenote.

Elrik I'm not following your question? I'm rigging sideways???

The hook's shank goes most the way through the length of the body and pops out the back .

Allow me to illustrate what I was talking about and what it looks like to me from your pictures. How I normally see people rig jigs is like the first jig in my crude drawing the tail curls up in the opposite direction of the hook's curve (or I have seen some do the flip where the tail's curve matches that of the hook). From your pictures it looks like you rig yours like my second drawing, so that the tail is curving out at a 90' angle from the hook, so to see the tail laid out you would have to be looking straight down at the hook of the jig. Is this the case, or is it just the way the pictures look?