The quest for brookies continues. This year, we decided to look north of North Tea. Lovely area. 

We put in on the Saturday around 11AM. The weather front had just passed - apparently Friday was miserable on North Tea with rain and wind gusts up to 70 kmh. The weather warmed up through the day, and the paddle was lovely albeit a bit cold. 

We took the portage into Sisco Lake and trolled around a bit, with nothing biting. The next portage into Lorne Lake was quite mucky for the first 400 m, but not terrible. There was one other group on Lorne on the south site (probably the nicest on the lake). We took the site on the other peninsula, I think the second-nicest site on the lake. 

The following day, we decided that Gugger Lake is worth a look - it was not. However, deep trolling on Lorne got us a couple of lakers. Nothing on the surface. Oddly, we saw a group of 9 canoes who visited Lorne fron Sisco Lake. About 18-20 people... They visited the other end of the lake, screamed twice (?!?) and then made their way back to Sisco. Man, that's a large group... 

By the end of the day, it was warm and the black flies started to come out but no biting. Even saw a few mosquitos at dusk. 

On the way out, we took the 2k portage directly to into North Tea - the nicest portage in Algonquin I think. The wind was substantial out of the east, which made us fly down the lake. It would have been brutal for the people going the other way. 

I suspect the bugs will be out for Mother's Day. 









Cheers!
Marko