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Went solo to the park this morning, Algonquin was calling me. Beautiful drive over, all the lakes were like glass, saw two foxes, one was chomping on a bunny, the fish were jumping, sun was shining, couldn’t ask for more. Arrive at the launch for 8:30, ghost town…. Only a fraction of the vehicles I usually see and nobody around. Loaded up and in the boat on the water for 8:45. Putted out to a rocky mid lake shoal that breaches the surface, and parked my boat in 35fow….. the bottom 10ft appears to be bait, with some larger markers dipping in around 10-15 under the boat, so down goes the vibrato all the way to bottom, tap it a few times, then reel up to 15ft, slam! Slam! Slam! By 9:45 I had 7 lake trout all slamming 10-15ft under the boat, then they all disappeared. All the trout were 18-19” and all released. Wind now picked up something fierce, I wanted to get to the rapids at the opposite end of the lake and decided to go now (10:15ish) before the lake got too rough. So off I went, arrive at the rapids and everything is in shadows I can’t see the fish sun the main flow, so I cast in and instantly nail a nice 3–4lb smallmouth, promptly released, I switch from the rapala J5 to a 1” Williams spoon I’ve modified as a spinner, and start tossing into the shallows hoping for a brookie…. I snagged a sucker, released, then I had a follow of a gaggle of small brookies, one tap no hookset. Kept at it, another sucker! This one was a bigger one and actually chased and hit the spoon, I thought for sure it was a brookie… dang. Kept fishing, snagged another sucker, released, and decided to head back out to the lake as the wind kept getting more and more vicious…. And lake I was in is notorious for big waves…. And of course… there were some very big waves…. It was a rough ride back up the lake, so I took refuge behind an island for lunch and started jigging in 65fow as I had many marks on bottom…. Landed 3 more lakers, 2 around 16” and one was maybe 5”. Lost three in that spot before finally hooking the elusive Algonquin Whitefish. Much smaller than the whitefish I usually get in other lakes, and it was really neat to see. Promptly released after a quick photo. The lake finally calmed and back to launch I went and now I’m home. Great day of catch and release, can’t wait to try a new lake next time. Keep fishing on.
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Nice outing Mykola. The lakers are doing well in there for sure, I caught a bunch last summer when I stopped there for a few hours. Never caught a whitey there. And I can attest to the wind this past weekend - made for a tough go in the canoe
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