1 hour ago, Matt Duprau said:

I was out on the Bay Of Quinte in Southern Ontario last week. Surface temp was high 60's in the morning and peaking at 70-72 in the afternoon. Fish were biting great! Nothing huge but once I got onto schools of shad, the bass were there. Burning and stopping a Spro Square Bill was the most productive. Looking forward to getting back out. Going to do some early morning walking baits as the shad were breaking the surface. Most moving baits will work well this time of year, i.e Spinnerbaits, Square bills, lipless cranks, chatterbaits, etc. Good luck!

 

Matt 

I see you have American Shad in Lake Ontario, we have the same species in our northern Cal rivers. American Shad are 3lbs to 7 lbs as adults, too big for bass, unless they are young of the year.

We consider American Shad editable sport fish and targeted by fly fisherman.

Tom

1 hour ago, Matt Duprau said:

I was out on the Bay Of Quinte in Southern Ontario last week. Surface temp was high 60's in the morning and peaking at 70-72 in the afternoon. Fish were biting great! Nothing huge but once I got onto schools of shad, the bass were there. Burning and stopping a Spro Square Bill was the most productive. Looking forward to getting back out. Going to do some early morning walking baits as the shad were breaking the surface. Most moving baits will work well this time of year, i.e Spinnerbaits, Square bills, lipless cranks, chatterbaits, etc. Good luck!

 

Matt 

 

1 hour ago, Matt Duprau said:

Illinois dept of Natural resources says Newton is one of the premier bass lakes in the midwest and it has an 18  inch minimum limit .

 

http://www.ifishillinois.org/profiles/display_lake.php?waternum=00225

10 hours ago, scaleface said:

Illinois dept of Natural resources says Newton is one of the premier bass lakes in the midwest and it has an 18  inch minimum limit .

 

http://www.ifishillinois.org/profiles/display_lake.php?waternum=00225

That's a different place then in talking about.