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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Rodney on June 05, 2018, 08:15:29 PM

Title: Quennell Lake, June 1st & 2nd 2018
Post by: Rodney on June 05, 2018, 08:15:29 PM

We gave Quennell Lake in Nanaimo a go for the first time last weekend. Lovely looking lake, plenty of good bass habitat along the shorelines, but tough fishing. Water clarity was perhaps a foot, which is apparently the norm. We ended up with two fish in 7 hours on the first day, four fish in 8 hours on the second. The size made up for the numbers. All smallmouth bass except two were quite large, in the 2 to 3lb range. The fish on the first day were caught by dragging a tubebait on the bottom in 10 to 15ft of water. On the second day, one smashed a topwater popper, another grabbed a Jackall Necko Flick on a dropshot underneath a floating dock, the other two were caught in the shallows around lillypads.

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Title: Re: Quennell Lake, June 1st & 2nd 2018
Post by: Fatso on July 16, 2018, 09:51:58 PM

Nice! What do they taste like?

Title: Re: Quennell Lake, June 1st & 2nd 2018
Post by: Rodney on July 16, 2018, 10:53:38 PM

Didn't keep these ones, but they usually taste fantastic.

Title: Re: Quennell Lake, June 1st & 2nd 2018
Post by: Fish Assassin on July 16, 2018, 11:02:24 PM

Do they taste anything like a rock cod ?

Title: Re: Quennell Lake, June 1st & 2nd 2018
Post by: Rodney on July 16, 2018, 11:03:40 PM

Quote from: Fish Assassin on July 16, 2018, 11:02:24 PM

Do they taste anything like a rock cod ?

Pretty close actually.